Amy's Organic Broccoli Cheddar Soup: Labelgrade B- (72/100)

The short answer

Amy’s Organic Broccoli Cheddar Soup delivers 10g of protein and 310 calories per 1 BOWL (USDA FDC 2081745). Per 100g that’s 3.5g of protein; per oz, 1g. The Labelgrade is B- (72 / 100): Effectively zero sugar.

Why this Labelgrade

How it compares

Organic doesn’t erase the fat

Amy’s deserves the credit it gets here: the ingredient list is genuinely clean for a canned soup — organic potatoes, onions, white cheddar, cream, broccoli, carrots, celery, brown rice flour, mushrooms, garlic, butter, olive oil, sea salt, and spices, with no gums, no MSG, no caramel color, nothing you can’t picture. That’s why it scores B+ on ingredient quality, well above the typical canned soup.

But ingredient quality and fat load are two different questions, and this soup answers them very differently. Organic white cheddar is still cheddar; organic cream is still cream. Together with the butter, they push the soup to 20g of fat and 12g of saturated fat per bowl — and that 12g is more than half the ~20g daily limit most guidelines suggest, in a single serving. The “organic” on the front of the can tells you how the dairy was farmed. It tells you nothing about how the saturated fat behaves once it’s in the bowl. This is the central, honest point about every cream-based soup: a better-sourced cream soup is still a cream soup.

How to place a cream soup in your week

None of this makes Amy’s broccoli cheddar a bad choice — it makes it a specific one. Think of it the way you’d think of mac and cheese or a cheese-topped baked potato: a warm, satisfying, comfort dish that happens to be made from recognizable organic ingredients, not a light lunch you’d lean on every day.

The contrast with the rest of the soup aisle is the useful frame. A broth-based bean or vegetable soup of similar size typically carries a few grams of fat and brings more fiber; this brings 20g of fat and 250mg of calcium from all that cheese. If you want broccoli cheddar, enjoy it as the indulgence it is — ideally next to something with fiber, like a side salad or a slice of whole-grain bread, since the soup’s own fiber (3.12g) is modest. If you’re reaching for soup specifically to eat light, the broth-and-bean shelf is the better aisle, and a cream soup like this is the occasional treat rather than the default.

Scope

This page covers Amy’s Organic Broccoli Cheddar Soup (10 oz/284 g), UPC 042272006465, as represented in USDA Branded Foods FDC 2081745. Amy’s sells multiple variants in this product line — other sizes, flavors, or fat levels may have different macros and Labelgrade scores. Manufacturers periodically reformulate; always cross-reference the actual package label, especially if you have allergies or dietary restrictions.

Ingredients (from the USDA Branded Foods entry)

FILTERED WATER, ORGANIC POTATOES, ORGANIC ONIONS, ORGANIC WHITE CHEDDAR CHEESE (ORGANIC PASTEURIZED MILK, CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES [WITHOUT ANIMAL ENZYMES OR RENNET]), ORGANIC CREAM, ORGANIC BROCCOLI, ORGANIC CARROTS, ORGANIC CELERY, ORGANIC WHOLE GRAIN BROWN RICE FLOUR, ORGANIC MUSHROOMS, ORGANIC GARLIC, ORGANIC GRADE AA BUTTER (ORGANIC CREAM, SALT), ORGANIC EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL, SEA SALT, ORGANIC SPICES*.

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Scope: This page applies specifically to Organic Broccoli Cheddar Soup (10 oz/284 g) · UPC 042272006465. Other sizes, flavors, or formulations may differ.