The best canned soups are comforting, affordable, and easy to prepare. We have tasted so many soups here at Sporked and now we’re sharing the best canned soup from each category with you.
Whether you’re a brothy boy, a lentil lover, or you’re trying to chug some canned clam chowder, there’s a soup on this list for you. But just to be safe, you should buy all of these for your pantry because they’re all delicious!
- Progresso Beef & Vegetable
While they may not be one of the best canned soup brands in general, Progresso makes one mean vegetable beef soup. There are tons of veggies, like carrots, potatoes, green beans, tomatoes, and pieces of onion. Plus it has a strong beefy flavor. And, unlike most canned soups, this one isn’t packed with sodium.
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- Amy’s Gluten-Free Mushroom Bisque Soup
Canned mushroom soup is super underrated. It’s typically used for green bean casserole and, uh, that’s it? This mushroom soup from Amy’s, however, is the kind of soup you want to enjoy as soup. It’s one of the best tasting canned soup options we’ve ever tried. It has tons of mushrooms and an intense mushroom flavor, almost like it was made with dried mushrooms. This tastes like mushroom soup you’d get at a nice restaurant.
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- Bare Bones Lentil Curry Plant-Based Soup
I love lentil soup and I loved Bare Bones Lentil Curry Plant-Based Soup. Bare Bones’ lentil soup is warm and inviting and easily our favorite lentil soup. It’s filled with lentils, vegetables, and spicy aromatics. The curry flavor is very balanced and not overpowering. I plan to keep this soup stocked in my pantry because it is like such a hearty, simple meal.
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- Rao’s Chicken Noodle Soup
You know and love Rao’s marinara sauce (it’s one of the best marinara sauces out there), but did you know Rao’s also makes soups?! This is the best chicken noodle soup because it tastes like it could be homemade chicken noodle soup. The noodles hold up well to the broth and the broth is a little herby. It may not be canned chicken noodle soup, but it’s just as easy to prepare and way more delicious. Be warned, though: This is definitely our favorite Rao’s soup and wouldn’t necessarily recommend the others.
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- Bar Harbor New England Style Clam Chowder
Bar Harbor New England Style Clam is our favorite clam chowder and one of the best tasting canned soup brands we’ve tried. This stuff is better than some of the clam chowders I’ve tried at restaurants. It has an oceanic salinity without coming off as fishy. It’s loaded with cream, tiny cubed potatoes, and tender, meaty clams. And unlike most of the canned clam chowders we tried, this is nice and thick. I never thought I’d really stan a canned clam chowder, but here we are.
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- Panera Baked Potato Soup
The best potato soup is from Panera. Panera knows soup and is one of best store bought soup brands to ever exist. This soup is thick, rich, and creamy. While it’s not the best Panera soup, it’s still pretty dang delicious. I think if you added some freshly cracked black pepper you could really take this potato soup to the next level. That being said, it’s still tasty with literally nothing added at all.
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- Amy’s Organic Southwestern Fire-Roasted Vegetable Soup
“Imagine the best vegetable soup you ever tasted had a baby with a perfectly spiced tortilla soup—that’s Amy’s Southwest Vegetable Soup in a nutshell.” I (Jordan Myrick) am right! This vegetable soup is flavorful enough to enjoy on its own but would be even better topped with diced raw onion, and a squeeze of fresh lime. Add tortilla chips for dunking and you have a scrumptious dinner. This was easily the most flavorful vegetable soup we tried in our vegetable soup taste test.
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- Pacific Foods Organic Creamy Tomato Soup
Editor-in-chief Justine Sterling loves Pacific Foods Organic Creamy Tomato Soup. It’s the best tomato soup we’ve ever tried from the grocery store. It might even be our favorite soup in general that we’ve ever bought at the grocery store. It’s as decadent as plain tomato soup can get, thanks to the organic milk from dairies local to Oregon (according to Pacific Foods). The tomatoes are sweet. The onions and garlic are aromatic. Trust Justine when she says, “Buy this soup!”
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- Panera Bread Autumn Squash Soup
Baked Potato isn’t the only good soup from Panera. Their Autumn Squash soup is also our favorite butternut squash soup! It’s so creamy and the perfect balance of sweet and savory. Plus, it has a nice bit of saltiness. Buy this soup this fall to really get into the season.
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- Panera Broccoli Cheddar Soup
The best store bought Panera soup should come as no surprise to anyone. It’s broccoli cheddar! Panera Broccoli Cheddar soup from the grocery store is just about perfect. It’s creamy and cheesy and indulgent. There’s plenty of broccoli, but it’s mostly like eating molten cheddar cheese with a spoon. We will not be returning to Panera and will just be buying this from the store instead, for the rest of forever.
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- Andersen’s Creamy Split Pea Soup
This is not only one of the best split pea soups, it’s one of the best store bought soups ever. We have all separately bought this soup since this taste test. It’s so savory and creamy and delicious. We recommend topping it with shredded cheese and sour cream to take it to the next level. This soup is the soup to end all soups.
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- Campbell’s Chunky Minestrone with Italian Sausage
The best minestrone changed my mind about minestrone. It also made me realize that minestrone should definitely have sausage in it. The two types of sausage in this canned minestrone add a ton of much needed fat and flavor. Sausage freaks, this is the best store bought soup for you!
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Best Vegetable Beef
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8/10
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Best Mushroom
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Best Lentil
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9/10
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Best Chicken Noodle
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9/10
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Best Clam Chowder
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9/10
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Best Potato
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9/10
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Best Vegetable
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10/10
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Best Tomato
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10/10
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Best Butternut Squash
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10/10
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Best Panera
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10/10
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Best Split Pea
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10/10
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Best Minestrone
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10/10
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