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"Bruce" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 21:23:59 -0000 (UTC), Jinx the Minx
> > wrote:
>
>>Bruce > wrote:
>>> On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 13:32:16 -0600, "cshenk" > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Saturday, February 16, 2019 at 10:44:36 AM UTC-5, cshenk wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mostly the canned and jarred sauces (especially in the so called
>>>>>> more high scale brands) add a lot of sugar and/or salt to them.
>>>>>> Haven't noted a sweet soup yet but there probably are some.
>>>>>
>>>>> Campbell's tomato soup is horribly sweet. So's the vegetarian
>>>>> vegetable.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>
>>>> Umm, might you be interpreting lack of salt as 'sweet' there? Neither
>>>> has sugar added at all.
>>>
>>> Campbell's Soup, Tomato:
>>> "water, tomato puree (water, tomato paste), sugar, bleached enriched
>>> flour (wheat flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate,
>>> riboflavin, folic acid), wheat flour, contains less than 1% of: dried
>>> dairy blend (whey, calcium caseinate), salt, modified food starch,
>>> butter (milk), vegetable oil (corn, cottonseed, canola and/or
>>> soybean), citric acid, flavoring and ascorbic acid (added to help
>>> retain color)."
>>>
>>> Sugar is the 3rd ingredient.
>>>
>>> We should organise a Misinformation Contest. In the left corner
>>> CSHENK, in the right corner SHELDON. It's gonna be close!
>>>

>>
>>You are misinformed. Campbell's tomato soup doesn't contain sugar, it
>>contains high fructose corn syrup, as the SECOND ingredient-right behind
>>tomato purée. That the equivalent of 3 teaspoons of sugar per serving.

>
> Doesn't it say sugar as the 3rd ingredient after water and tomato
> puree?


Nope.

https://www.campbells.com/campbell-s...d/tomato-soup/

These days, in this country, HFCS is used whenever possible instead of
sugar.