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Tesco Minestrone Soup |
| Date: |
24/02/06 (387 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Lack of flavour
Tesco Minestrone Soup can be found in the fresh soup section in one of the chill cabinets. The soup comes in a see through plastic tub which holds 600g of soup.
The tub describes the soup as An Italian style soup made with tomatoes, pasta, vegetables and herbs.
There is a lot of information on the tub which I am really not going to write down for you as it can be easily read at the supermarket. There are Allergy Advice notices, Caution notices, Ingredients list, nutrition list, additional info list. Cooking Instructions and freezing guidelines.
If my review was to be other than what I am going to tell you about this soup then I would have included these details for your convenience. However, this time I am just going to tell you about the soup.
This fresh soup costs £1.17 for 600g; the packaging is bright and attractive, drawing the buyer to pick this product up for a closer look. The product itself through the packaging looks nutritious and wholesome and it’s fresh of course.
I bought this for convenience sake although I normally make my own soup; I thought it would do no harm to try a shop bought “homemade-style” soup for a change.
I got home and put it on to cook immediately as I prepared the rest of the dinner, it looked really nice so I just bunged it into a pot and didn’t even smell it, it has a rich red tomato colour with a consistency equivalent to a thin clear Chinese soup.
I could clearly see the fresh vegetables throughout the soup; tomato, carrot, pasta, pinto beans, courgette and I could also see fresh herbs floating about.
I cooked the soup as instructed, slowly without boiling it and served it.
The taste was extremely unexpected – There was none! Well there was a slight tinge of tomato flavour, very thin, the courgettes tasted as though something had sucked the flavour out instead of it absorbing the flavours around it. There was no hint of the garlic described in the ingredient list; in fact it is the blandest tasting soup I have ever tried in my life.
We tried all sorts of things to liven it up, crushed chillies and piri-piri, salt, ground black pepper, garlic granules, sadly nothing helped it ended up tasting like spicy water with a hint of garlic (our own).
Now I love soup and even I gave up half way through my plateful, I just felt I was persevering with eating it as I had bought it.
In short (as this review is) this is a completely tasteless soup, I can’t understand where the flavours went, you would expect with the ingredients being all fresh that some flavour would be derived from them and infuse the liquid surrounding them.
But No, The soup was so bad the flavour vacated the package before I got to it!
Thanks for reading.
Sheena 2006
Summary: A good looking soup with no taste at all.
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