How to Reduce Sodium in Homemade Soup

Tip 1 - Soup Too Salty? 5 Tips for Fixing It & Making Sure It Doesn't Happen Again

Maybe your stock was unusually salty, or too much water boiled off, or you simply added one pinch of salt too many — however it happened, it's happened: your soup is too salty. What's the best way to fix it? And how can you prevent it from happening next time?

Tip 2 - Can a Potato Really Fix a Too-Salty Soup? — Putting Tips to the Test in The Kitchn

Maybe you forgot to use low-sodium broth. Maybe you forgot that you were using something salty like bacon or ham in your soup and you threw in an extra pinch of salt. In either case, you now have a pot of too-salty soup — I was guilty of this just last night when making a big pot of turkey meatball soup, but luckily it was flavorful enough that I could dilute it with water. But what happens when you like the flavor of the soup and don't want to change it, but it's just too salty? Can you throw a potato into it to absorb some of the salt? We put this tip to the test to see if it really works.

Tip 3 - How to Reduce Salt in Soups & Stews

Leading soup makers are scrambling to expand the number of stews and soups marketed as "Low Sodium" in an attempt to attract the heart-healthy and sodium-conscious consumers. Still, ...

Tip 4 - How to reduce saltiness in soups/stews | 101 Things Every Cook Should Cook on WordPress.com

It's easy to accidentally over-salt soup, stocks and stews and for ages I thought that there wasn't anything you can do about it. But it turns out it's quite easy to repair something that's too salty: just put a raw potato in the soup or stew. As the potato cooks it will absorb some of…

Tip 5 - How to Lower the Sodium Content of Canned Soup | eHow

Although sodium is essential in any diet, you only need a small amount per day. Food manufacturers rely on sodium as a flavor modifier, ingredient binder, color enhancer, stabilizer and preservative in processed foods. Canned soup contains a lot of sodium. For example, a serving of Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup contains 910 mg of sodium, and...

Tip 6 - How to Make Low-Sodium Soup at Home

Making delicious, low-sodium soup at home is easy if you know what you’re doing. Although salt accentuates taste, you have other options to make your soup flavorful. MayoClinic.com ...