Femail puts Heinz’s Christmas soup to the test to see if it can REALLY save this year’s celebration

Claire admitted the soup was flavoursome, but she said it could never compete with a Christmas meal 

Heinz claims their soup is the perfect antidote to long cooking times and promises to bring all the flavours of a perfectly executed Christmas Dinner in just one can. 

But how does it work on the taste buds? FEMAIL journalist Claire Toureille puts the tin to the – taste – test!

Rating:

Verdict:

It is hard to imagine that a tinned meal would ever compare with a homemade Christmas dinner, and the Heinz offer won’t dethrone your parents’ cooking any time soon. 

The soup is pleasant on its own. 

While it looks wrong, it doesn’t taste as bad as one could imagine. 

The soup is brown and thick in consistency, with lots of veggies, meat and sausages all thrown in together. 

Heinz delivers on its promise and the soup does include a generous amount of turkey as well as veggies, and two pigs in blanket. 

The soup is easy to prep,  and can be heated on the hob or in the microwave. 

The mix is salty and rich in flavour, although apart from the turkey and Brussels sprouts, which are easily recognisable, the rest of the soup could be described as salty mush and some ingredients are hard to distinguish from others. 

The soup is a funny novelty meal, but it doesn’t stack up against a quintennial British Christmas meal, and if it were a Christmas character, it wouldn’t be Scrooge, but it’d definitely be the Grinch. 

The soup is brown and thick in consistency, with lots of veggies, meat and sausages all thrown in together

The soup is brown and thick in consistency, with lots of veggies, meat and sausages all thrown in together

The soup, pictured, is easy to prep, and can be heated on the hob or in the microwave. It has a big potatoes serving, plenty of veggies and some generous chunks of Turkey

The soup, pictured, is easy to prep, and can be heated on the hob or in the microwave. It has a big potatoes serving, plenty of veggies and some generous chunks of Turkey

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