Alas, to overcome hypertension I have had to give up soup completely! Even so-called 'low sodium' soup has massive amounts of sodium compared with most other foods. AFAIK the only other thing that is quite as bad as soup is hotdogs.

The way the labelling system works here in the USA, 'low' only means less than the regular version of the same thing, so it depends where you start out. So, for example, regular soup has so massive a sodium content that soup with a merely very high sodium content can be labelled as low sodium soup. OTOH, goat's cheese all has low fat content compared with cow's cheese of the same variety, but it can't be labelled as low fat cheese because it isn't a special version with less fat than exactly the same variety of cheese that's also made with goat's milk. To err is human, but to really screw things up you need a civil servant to make up the rules!

The only time I have had soup in at least the last five years was when my wife made it from scratch, as there is no other way to get soup with genuinely low sodium levels except for home made. As for hotdogs, I tried vegetarian corndogs only to be shocked to find that even those had too much sodium, not reading the nutrition label until after I had eaten a couple of them.

Sorry if this is veering towards being a thread hijack. All I really meant to say was, if you plan to go on a soup diet, be sure you don't have high blood pressure before you start.