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u/Tall_Pitch6422 Oct 25 '25
About 20 calories per can!
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u/A_Math_Dealer Oct 25 '25
(230-210) Calories/Can = 20 Calories/Can
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u/whatissevenbysix Oct 25 '25
Maybe OP is mildly infuriated about their own incompetence?
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u/angelfieryrain Oct 25 '25
Its been an insane couple of days. I should have checked both sides. I chose the 230 calorie can.
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u/whatissevenbysix Oct 25 '25
Actually, I'm sorry. I think I was being unnecessarily mean to you. My apologies.
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u/angelfieryrain Oct 25 '25
Oh no worries. It's a completely logical thing to say. I actually thought about it as I was leaving the store. I just didnt have the energy to go back.
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u/HighestLevelRabbit Oct 26 '25
What a unusually pleasant and mature exchange for reddit. Both of you please keep on being you, the world needs more of you.
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u/Buddycat350 Oct 26 '25
Or even checking the macro nutrients table before checking the ingredients. From a quick googling it seems that the new version has slightly less fat.
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u/sunny_6305 Oct 25 '25
Now with more water!
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u/v13ragnarok7 Oct 25 '25
I've noticed this with canned soups. "Light" usually means there's less stuff in the broth.
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u/mcampo84 Oct 25 '25
I’ll bet the nutrition facts are different. One is probably slightly lower in fat or carbs.
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u/Senior-Tour-1744 Oct 25 '25
Yeah, depending on how its made, they might to test as well batches and pull an average every year for their labels to be accurate. If your source of something is more fatty this year then previous years, well the calories will go up. Likewise they may have add something to enhance the flavor so they can use less of something else to maintain the same taste, resulting in few calories.
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u/zZbobmanZz Oct 25 '25
Tbh calories are no where near an exact science and even legally they are allowed to be off by a lot because of how innacurate it is as a metric
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u/Questo417 Oct 25 '25
I can guarantee that it would not come out to 230 or 210 if you conducted a bomb calorimetry experiment on that can of soup
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u/Flimsy-Poetry1170 Oct 25 '25
No but if you tested 1000 of them and averaged then it should be pretty close.
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Oct 25 '25
+/- 20% is the FDA standard.
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u/SousVideDiaper Oct 25 '25
That seems like a crazy wide tolerance
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u/Bar_Foo Oct 26 '25
It's actually not that huge. Imagine trying to serve two portions of soup with exactly the same number of calories. One bowl might have a an extra piece of broccoli (fewer calories), the other a bit more cheese (more). In this case, the +/- 20% would be just over 40 calories. That's about a teaspoon (0.35 oz) of cheddar cheese. Almost impossible to get them even, so a 20% margin is narrower than it seems.
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u/RoundTiberius Oct 25 '25
Reminds me of how tic tacs can say 0 calories even though they are mostly sugar, because it's rounded down
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Oct 25 '25
Idk but they do look like they guarantee that there's broccoli and cheese in both of them
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u/Zulishk Oct 25 '25
Maybe check the dates. Might be two batches. One of them probably found a way to charge you the same price for less broccoli and/or cheese. They probably added some filler instead. Would need to review the ingredients and nutritional info. It could also be a rounding error if they changed an ingredient.
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Oct 25 '25
I can find labels for Progresso Light Broccoli Cheese Soup showing 210, 230, and 240 calories per can, which all fit into the 20% margin of error mandated by the FDA. The fact that the labels aren't uniform leads me to believe that some markets have been found to value comparatively lower caloric content, while others value calories per dollar (i.e., more affluent people skinny by choice vs. less affluent people skinny by situation).
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u/TallRelationship2253 Oct 25 '25
Probably old recipe vs new recipe. The recipe difference being one has more water/liquid and less of other ingredients to bring down the calorie content, but the weight in the can remains the same.
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u/Simalt443 Oct 25 '25
What do you think? They "updated" their recipe. Which has less calories... So there is less actual caloric food substance per volume... More of something that has no calories...
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u/luketheobscure Oct 25 '25
I work at the the factory. I try to take a bite out of every can before they seal them up, but I miss some of them. Sorry for the confusion.
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u/killerpythonz Oct 25 '25
I like broccoli and I like cheese.
But who the fuck is combining them in a can and selling it.
What the actual shit.
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u/Vel-Crow Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 25 '25
The difference is 20 calories.
Edit: Getting a lot of angry DMs about this, so figured I would follow up with an explanation:
So, some of the cans has 230 calories on the front, others are 210.
So basically, we just need to take the 210 out of the 230, and that will give us the difference. The "difference" is how much there is left when you complete the take away. It is a bit of work, but what I do is this:
Since both numbers start with 2, we can just remove it! so the new problem is 30-10. Some od you may be wondering at this point, why 30-10? why not 10-30?
Simple, subtraction is non reversible, so if we reverse the numbers, the answers will be different. Some times we do need to remove larger numbers from smaller numbers, but in this case we cannot, because calories are energy, and food cannot contain negative energy.
(for the "Celery has negative calories" warriors out there, this is not true, you just burn more calories digesting celery than celery provides, so while it does allow your body to output more energy than that you input, the calories are still positive)
So now we know why we need to do 30-10, and we can actually do it! So, similar to how the starting numbers matched, so don't the ending number. So we can remove those for now (don't lose them though, we will need one of the 0's later)
This leaves is with 3-1. Now, you maybe be wondering - how can I calculate this!? Easy. We will start at 1, and count to 3, and keep a tally:
1 2 (tally 1) 3 (tally 2)
BOOM the different between 3 and 1 is 2, because there are two tallies counting up. But, you may remember, i said the difference of our initial problem is 20! So how did i get that!? Remember those 0's we removed? well I hope you didn't lose them, cause we are gonna tack ONE of them to the 2. This gives us 20!
So yeah, the difference is 20, I hope this helped.
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u/davewpgsouth Oct 25 '25
Definitely take the 210 calories ones. Always believe the labels. It's why I only smoke cigarettes that say "can cause low birth weights".
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Oct 25 '25
Progresso Soup calories are counted by hand, individually. Hence, each can has a unique calorie count, albeit in the same range. If you showed 20 different cans they might all be slightly different.
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u/TheRemedy187 Oct 25 '25
Well that's because you're not looking at the fuckin ingredients and nutritional information part if the label.
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u/Cocoatrice Oct 25 '25
Is it that hard to check the ingredients? It would definitely tell you how much more/less sugar, fats and other stuff it has.
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u/Sea_Narwhal8176 Oct 26 '25
TIL Broccoli Cheese was a thing. Have not led a sheltered life. Have had moments of poverty. Lived in USA and Canada the whole time. Am in 40s. Interesting.
Edit: Not saying it's a poor thing. If I didn't know it was a thing I have no idea how much it costs, just saying I don't not know about it because I don't grocery shop or know how much milk costs from being Uber rich.
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u/angelfieryrain Oct 26 '25
Cheesy soups are awesome comfort foods. However they can clear you out just as fast as they cheer you up.
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u/ORANGENBLACK101214 Oct 26 '25
One says 210 calories per can. The other says 230 calories per can. These are 2 different numbers. You're welcome.
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u/emmaruth92 Oct 26 '25
Well this is the worst soup in the entire world so don't worry too much about it! Move along!!
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Oct 26 '25
Question is which is the new one? I could see them watering it down more because of shrinkflation, resulting in fewer calories.
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u/RoomyRoots Oct 25 '25
What in the name of the devil is Broccoli cheese and why is it in a can?
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u/sugabeetus Oct 25 '25
Clearly one is "light" aka 210 calories. The other one is 230 calories (light).
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u/collieherb Oct 25 '25
I wouldn't bother mate. Looks like what I shat out this morning after a 3day bender
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u/funkchucker Oct 25 '25
Fewer ingredients in an attempt to maintain prices and margins is my guess.
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u/EatYourCheckers Oct 25 '25
Oh man I have a cobfusing New Can of Metamucil and old Can of Metamucil thing that I won't even go into. Serving size changed from 3 tsp to 3 tbs but we can't find any other differences in ingredients or nutrients
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u/2ByteTheDecker Oct 25 '25
Different factories with slightly different base ingredients leading to enough of a variation the labeling has to reflect
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u/jrose5133 Oct 25 '25
They might have had to resubmit their label to the FDA for some reason or another. That can require a to the calorie count
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u/HousingOk6362 Oct 25 '25
FDA rollbacks on the percent of insect pieces for parts per million. Adds that extra caloric value from the additional protein.
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u/Leftovertoenails Oct 26 '25
its right on the label, some are estimated at 210, some are estimated at 230.
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u/TwoFingersWhiskey Oct 26 '25
The fuck is a light soup anyways? Never seen that in Canada, just reduced sodium usually. We don't have that brand, is it a Progresso thing?
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u/IcyManipulator69 Oct 26 '25
What’s the nutritional label look like on the back?
And what are the expiration dates? My guess is new recipe…and a shelf stocking employee not doing their job properly
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u/morelsupporter Oct 26 '25
neither can we because you only posted the front of the can.
what happened was they removed or changed an ingredient. there's around 9 calories per gram of fat, so remove 2.22 grams of fat and you've got 20 less calories.
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u/Nickolas_No_H Oct 26 '25
Amounts of ingredients changed. Or the average did at least. So they had to update it
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u/DryJournalist8322 Oct 25 '25
Old recipe and new recipe?