There was a reason our mothers fed us a warm, home-made thick cup of chicken soup during winter evenings when we were young. Winter time is soup time – nothing comforts more than a hot bowl of soup, when temperature dips. This was thus, their simple way of delivering warmth, loads of it. Now who doesn’t need some TLC when the weather starts to get nasty!
But there are a lot of other reasons for sipping soups regularly. It is easily the best way to incorporate a wide assortment of vegetables and fruits into our diet and score a multitude of vitamins, minerals and enzymes.
Soups are quick to think up and easy to assemble, their volume fills us up without a lot of calories, and they also help restore the necessary water balance in the diet. And my favourite reason is that while most cooking methods remove essential nutrients from the vegetables, soups actually retain most of them.