The Calories in Tom Yum Soup

The Calories in Tom Yum Soup
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Tom Yum soup, sometimes referred to as Tom Yum Koong, is a popular hot and sour soup from Thailand. It typically contains shrimp or prawns, straw mushrooms, curry, lemon grass, lime juice, chillies, and various herbs and spices to taste. Tom Yum Kha is a similar soup, but is instead made with coconut milk.

Serving Size

One cup makes up a serving size of Tom Yum soup. That is equal to approximately 140 g of the soup, says Food.com

Calories

Every cup serving of Tom Yum soup contains 140.5 calories. Of those calories, 13 come from fat. Tom Yum soup also has 1.4 g of fat, .2 g of saturated fat and 147 mg of cholesterol.

Nutrients

Tom Yum soup has 20.6 g of protein, which is equal to 41 percent of your daily value. It also contains 7.9 g of sugars, 85.5 mg of magnesium, which is 3 percent of daily value; 725.1 mg of potassium, 20 percent; and 1,570 mg of sodium, 65 percent.

References

Article reviewed by Allen Cone Last updated on: Jun 14, 2011

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