Score: 58%
Price/Size: $1.69/10.75 oz
Calories Per Serving (½ cup): 60
Sodium Per Serving: 890mg
Total Fat Per Serving: 2g

Free-associate with Campbell’s iconic red-and-white cans and you probably think about a lot of things you’re pretty OK with — memories of shopping with your folks when you were a kid, grandma making you an after-school meal with a grilled cheese and tomato sandwich. Hey, Andy Warhol was kind of a hack, but he wasn’t all bad. But the soup… man, Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Condensed Soup is oily, and just not very good.

It was on the low end of the list in terms of calories (tied for seventh with Lipton) and fat (tied for fifth with Progresso's 99% and Muir Glen), but third-highest in terms of sodium. And that showed in the tasting. Panelists found it very, very, salty — salty like the sea salty. (It had the third-highest amount of sodium on the list.) “SALTY! Damn. Mushy spaghetti noodles.” Another panelist asked innocently, “Where is the chicken?” Another summed things up pretty well: “It’s like chicken-flavored pasta water. I guess it’s the opposite of hospital food. Just fix the salt and it would be ‘D.’”

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