There is almost no ready-to-eat soup here. Eleven of the twelve items are concentrate, the jar or packet that turns hot water into stock in about thirty seconds, so broth stops being a thing you have to shop for.

Minor's covers pork base, low sodium chicken base and beef au jus concentrate in 16 oz tubs, with Sysco clam base in the same size. Better Than Bouillon does mushroom and a vegetarian No Chicken in 8 oz jars. Herb-Ox packets come fifty to a box in beef, vegetable, and a sodium-free chicken. Savory Choice reduced sodium chicken and beef arrive as 45 liquid packets. The one actual soup is Frontier red pepper corn chowder mix.

Sodium is the reason most people shop this shelf carefully, and it swings from sodium-free to very high across these twelve. The number is on the panel, manufacturers change it, and the jar is the version that counts.