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Campbell’s Baked Ramen Low Fat With Bearable Taste

Rick Bonino Food Editor

You may love your food, but are you sure it’s being completely honest with you?

Among the more deceptive products on supermarket shelves are those little packages of ramen noodles. While they may seem innocent enough, most of them contain deep-fried noodles that can contribute up to 9 grams of fat per serving.

Enter Campbell’s with a baked ramen soup that offers only 1 fat gram per serving. In a recent tasting, The Spokesman-Review’s reader food panel deemed it edible, if not exciting. Then again, the most enduring relationships tend to be based on trust, not lust.

Campbell’s Baked Ramen Noodle Soup, Oriental Flavor

Price: 30 cents for 2.8 ounces; makes 2 (1-cup) servings.

Nutrition: 140 calories (7 percent fat calories); 770 milligrams sodium per serving.

Taste: ***

Value: ***

Comments: “No taste, not very salty. Texture of noodles OK; not too slimy.” - Emily Bush

“Sort of dishwater-flavored; if I were forced to eat it I suppose I would, maybe, if they promised me I could see Harrison Ford afterwards.” - Meagan Coffey

, DataTimes MEMO: Products sampled by The Spokesman-Review’s reader food panel are prepared according to package directions. Panelists are not aware of a product’s brand name or price until after they have tasted it. Products are rated from one to five stars for taste and for value, based on quality compared to price.

Products sampled by The Spokesman-Review’s reader food panel are prepared according to package directions. Panelists are not aware of a product’s brand name or price until after they have tasted it. Products are rated from one to five stars for taste and for value, based on quality compared to price.