When you’re short on time, in need of something comforting and nutritious, or simply don’t fancy a sandwich, canned soup is there for you. If you’re low on vegetables, canned vegan soups are also often stocked with whole food ingredients and count as one of your five-a-day. Here are the best vegan canned soups to keep stocked in your pantry.
The 10 Best Vegan Canned Soups for Every Pantry
There are a number of different options available, so if you feel like you need a lunchtime pick-me-up, consider one of these tasty, healthy, simple canned (or boxed) soup options from one of these seven vegan-friendly brands. If you don’t fancy it right away, most tinned soup is shelf-stable for a reasonably long time, so you can stock it away for a rainy day without worrying.
1. Baxters
Baxters—a Scotland-based food processing company—has a range of vegan tinned soups. Created by the brand’s development chef Darren Sivewright using high-quality ingredients, the three flavors available are: Jackfruit, Three Bean & Chipotle, Sri Lankan Sweet Potato, and Butternut Squash & Lentil Dhansak.
“At Baxters, we’ve always championed new and innovative products,” said Lorraine Rothwell, the European marketing director for Baxters Food Group, in a statement. “From being the brand to introduce twist-off jar lids for our preserves in the 60s, to developing the first-ever vegetarian tinned soup range in the 80s, innovation is at our core. So, we’re excited to launch our first-ever plant-based range to the market.”
She added: “Creating this range is something we’ve been working on for a while. Not only did we want something that was vegan-friendly, but we wanted to showcase our commitment to introducing new and exciting recipes that also provide plenty of flavor and nutrients.”
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2. Heinz
Heinz has a number of vegan soup options, including its Spring Vegetable Soup, Vegetable Soup, and Lentil Soup, each of which are available in most major UK supermarkets.
Not in the mood for soup? The popular brands’ baked beans are now vegan too. At the beginning of the year, Heinz relabeled some of its cans with “Beanz Meanz Vegan” in celebration of Veganuary, the month-long campaign that encourages people to give up animal products for January.
Heinz representative Emily Wright said in a statement at the time: “there’s a general perception that being vegan means you have to spend lots of money on fancy foods, but being vegan isn’t all kale and quinoa.”
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3. Amy’s Kitchen
Veggie brand Amy’s Kitchen offers a number of vegan canned soup options. Choose from a variety, including Organic Lentil Soup, Organic Split Pea Soup, and Organic Vegetable Barley Soup. The brand’s soups are unique—they start as vegetables and not broth. Using “modern California-inspired” methods, the brand starts by sautéing organic vegetables with herbs. This allows for the “fresh flavor” of each soup to come forward.
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4. Campbell’s Well Yes! Range
Campbell Soup Company’s Well Yes! range is stocked with canned vegan soup options. Each option is nutritious, artificial ingredient-free, and features hearty, plant-based whole food ingredients. Choose from Lightly Salted Santa Fe Vegetable, Cajun Red Bean & Vegetable, Chickpea & Roasted Vegetable, Italian Vegetables With Farro, or Hearty Lentil With Vegetable. Can’t decide? Stock up on all five.
The Well Yes! soup range was created by a group of Campbell’s female workers back in 2016. “[They] felt the category lacked a product specifically for them, a brand that stood for something they could connect with and one that used ingredients they wanted, more of like kale, quinoa, and lean protein,” said the former president and CEO of the Campbell’s Soup Company at the time.
“So they created a soup that they wanted to buy and one that would disrupt the soup aisle, but they didn’t do it alone,” he added. “They invited a group of consumers who felt the same way. Together, they co-created the brand.”
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5. Progresso
Progresso has a wide range of canned plant-based options in its Vegetable Classics range, including Garden Vegetable, Tomato Basil, and Lentil. It also offers boxed vegan soups in its Good Natured range. Choose from Hearty Tomato with Spinach and Roasted Garlic, Hearty Corn and Chipotle Chowder, and Hearty Lentil with Garden Vegetables.
Roger Galloway—Progresso’s marketing manager—said back in 2016: “We know that consumers are more interested in plant-based diets. With Good Natured soups, we’re celebrating vegetables and show that beans are not boring and lentils can be fun.”
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6. Tesco
Packed with nutritious fresh root vegetables, Tesco’s Vegetable Soup is vegan-friendly. The UK’s leading supermarket chain offers a number of plant-based soup options, including products from Heinz, Amy’s Kitchen, and Baxters. Its recently launched plant-based Plant Chef range also includes a handful of vegan soup options, including Plant Chef Sweet Potato & Coconut, Lentil & Pepper, and Tomato, Chickpea, & Aubergine.
Tesco launched its Plant Chef range last year, in a bid to provide consumers with healthy, affordable plant-based options. Derek Sarno, the chain’s director of plant-based innovation, said in a statement: “the biggest impact we can make as individuals, for our health but also that of the planet, is to eat more plants. At Tesco, we’re making that easier than ever by providing the widest and best range of plant-based options available on the UK high street.”
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7. Pacific Foods
Pacific Foods has boxed soups to satisfy all of your cravings. Fancy something creamy? Try its Organic Butternut Squash Soup or its Cashew Carrot and Ginger soup. If you want something a little more hearty, opt for its Organic Vegetable Lentil & Roasted Red Pepper Soup or its Organic Spicy Black Bean & Kale Soup.
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8. Healthy Choice
Warm-up with a bowl of Healthy Choice’s Country Vegetable Soup. It features a harmonious blend of fragrant herbs and garden veggies, including carrots, corn, celery, potatoes, peas, kidney beans, zucchini, and more!
The veggie-packed soup delivers a full cup and a half of vegetables, without any animal products. It’s full of fiber and contains no artificial ingredients. And it tastes so dang good.
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9. Wolfgang Puck
In addition to his fine-dining restaurants, celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck also has his own line of canned soups—several of which are vegan-friendly!
The Southwest-inspired Organic Signature Tortilla soup features a flavor-packed combination of savory black beans, vegetable stock, and tasty spices. Other ingredients include onions, jalapeno peppers, red peppers, and corn—all of which are organic. Garnish the soup with fresh slices of avocado or couple it with your favorite vegan chips.
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10. Sprague Foods
Sprague Foods makes healthy, organic plant-based ready-to-eat products. The Canada-based vegetarian food brand has been churning out high-quality canned and jarred food since 1925.
For those craving a generous helping of veggie soup, many of the company’s products are also vegan. Try Sprague’s vegan-friendly, organic soups in a variety of flavors, including tomato red pepper, lentil and vegetable, Tuscany-style minestrone, Canadian-style split pea, sweet potato coconut curry, and autumn butternut squash—a seasonal favorite!
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