Making your own soup is easy. Do that. If it’s pre cooked, pre packaged, shipped and dumped on a store shelf it’s going to be full of shit. Cook your own.

They tend to have a lot of salt.

Buy a food dehydrator and make your own dehydrated veggies and meats for soup. If you grow the vegetables yourself, then you know everything that went into the soup.

Well, here is an experiment for you:

1) Cream of mushroom soup ingredients:

a) Roux (butter and flower slightly cooking the flower to a light brown depending on your taste).

b) Water or home made stock.

c) Cream

d) Mushrooms.

e) Salt and season to taste.

Now, go to the store and read ANY label on on a can / box of cream of mushroom soup.

There is your answer.

Are they made by the supermarket itself? Likely that would be healthy.

Soup is easy to make. You can even freeze it in small portions to eat later.

Buy dehydrated veggies. Add whatever dehydrated meats you want to it. Season accordingly. When ready, make your soup. It's relatively inexpensive, you know what's in it, and it's seasoned to your taste.

Look for some camping or hiking videos for more info as needed.

Vegetables aren't 'healthy' in the way they're (((forced))) as and lied about as. The amount of vegetables one should it is minimal. The exceptions are those such as white rice. Which is one of the extremely few food items that gains nutritional value from processing.

short expiration time

How does that seem promising? That's awful. You want meat in your EVERY MEAL

Also. What is "ready to eat soup"? Is that just an needlessly non-descriptive name for "canned soup"?

The best thing to say about anything from the grocery store is to read the ingredient label. If it's things like;

corn, celery, onion, chicken stock (water, chicken reduction ..., ...) sodium, pepper, wheat, carrot ...

Then it's fine.

If it's;

chemical 1, chemical 2, chemical 3, chemical 4, chemical 5, chicken, chemical 6, carrot, chemical, soy protein isolate, palm oil, flax seed, quinoa ...

Avoid the fuck out of it.

NONGMO vegetables

Do not exist.

As you can easily imagine, the modern commercial food distribution system is a colossal industry.

They receive literally thousands of new recipes every single day. Many of them are quite excellent. However, after selecting one of these recipes as a starting point, the industry must then redesign the food in question so as to enable mass production, mass distribution, and the extended shelf life of the meal. There are also a huge amount of health regulations that have to be complied with. Even selecting candidates from the incoming recipes is a major undertaking. It's risky as hell to commit money in advance on this scale, with no clear picture of the final outcome.

This whole process is conducted at the industry level by teams of specialists who do just this job full time. By the time they have finished the process of making this food supermarket compatible for large scale production, the original product has all but vanished and the final product, which will also continue to evolve, is all that remains.

More often than not, the final product is quite lethal for human consumption, just not immediately so. It will have a great shelf life, a presentable appearance, and an entirely artificial synthetic flavor. Nothing offensive for the consumer to see. Tens of millions of dollars will have already been spent bringing this one food item to market in this new format. Even then, they will test this in a handful of markets, before finally gearing up to full production.

Now, you can eat that frankensoup mystery product, which will probably give you cancer, regardless of it's label, or you can make your own much tastier, healthier, and cheaper soup, if you are willing to chop up a few fresh vegetables on your own.

Of course not. Anything preprocessed has to be assumed unhealthy. It really is that simple.

Maybe. Read the label.

Some grocery stores are going to make soup out of the veggies they would otherwise throw out, so those can be great.