Broccoli Soup - How Many Calories?

How many calories are in a bowl of broccoli soup?

The home-made reference recipe containing cream and potato provides 39 kcal per 100 g. A weighed 250 g bowl supplies 98 kcal. Cream-free, flour-thickened, milk-based or cheese-heavy recipes need their own calculation; the name broccoli soup does not define one formula.

What changes with a larger bowl?

A 250 g amount contains 3.25 g protein, 2.5 g fibre and 7 g fat. At 350 g, it provides 137 kcal, 4.55 g protein and 3.5 g fibre. The database lists 350 g as a portion measure, not as the capacity of every bowl.

The same 250 g recipe contains 857.5 mg sodium, equivalent to about 2.14 g salt when calculated from sodium. A modest calorie value does not establish a low salt content. Stock cubes, salty cheese and extra seasoning all need attention in your own recipe.

What can you eat with it?

The 3.25 g protein in 250 g soup does not replace a meat or pulse portion. Build the rest of the meal around a separately counted serving of eggs, yoghurt, cheese or pulses according to what you want to eat. Bread and croutons also add to the meal; weighing only the soup does not account for them.

A separate 150 g serving of plain yoghurt adds about 92 kcal and 5.21 g protein. Alongside 250 g soup, the total is approximately 189 kcal and 8.46 g protein, before bread or other foods.

Making it without cream

Replacing cream with milk, omitting potato or thickening with flour produces a different dish. Calculate the ingredients in the altered recipe and divide the total according to the finished batch weight. Subtracting an arbitrary calorie amount because the cream was removed would not give a reliable result.

Raw broccoli's vitamin C value cannot be transferred directly to soup. The proportion of vegetable, cooking and water content differ; 100 g soup is not made entirely of broccoli.

The generic soup value of 57 kcal per 100 g is not the new result for broccoli soup after removing cream. For the amount served, the general soup guide explains weighing bowls and ladles.

The cream-and-Parmesan basil tomato soup example gives about 84 kcal per 250 g. That is a separate recipe, not the recalculated result of changing the vegetables or cream in this potato-and-broccoli soup.

Source note: Values use the calculated home recipe in the Norwegian Food Composition Table, code 10.158. It is not a branded panel or laboratory analysis of every home-made soup. Cream and potato remain part of the reference. Sodium is taken directly as 343 mg per 100 g, rather than reconstructed from rounded salt.