Is soup as useful as people think?

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Lifehacker was looking for benefit together with gastroenterologist Anna Yurkevich.

“At least once a day, the soup should be in the stomach” - something like this, with small variations, the saying about the benefits of soup sounds. But why exactly is soup considered such a healthy dish that you cannot do without it at lunch?

Today, probably, everyone already knows that there is no need to eat soups. Why did the love for soups appear? Because it's a relatively simple and cheap way to fill your stomach. Now we live in an era of food abundance, and this was not always the case. Our parents still remember the time of total shortages, including in grocery stores. And it was then that soups, borscht, broths and so on came to the rescue.

Let's think: what is so useful in a soup that cannot be in other dishes?

Bouillon. Seriously? Why, then, is it recommended to drain the first broth? And the second, then, becomes useful? Of course, the foam that forms when boiling meat cannot cause an appetite.
Vegetables. They are useful, provided that they have undergone minimal heat treatment so that the necessary substances are preserved in them. Of course, fiber isn't going anywhere. But we get the most out of raw vegetables.
Meat. It's helpful. There is nothing to argue with. But you can just as well eat a piece of boiled meat with a salad of fresh vegetables!

I am not against soups. If you love them, please. But if you eat them through force only "for the sake of your health," then, I think, you should not torture yourself.