Independent guide to Panera menu prices and calories Not affiliated with Panera Bread
Independent guide Not affiliated with Panera Bread
Price, calories and ingredients at every size
The most looked-up thing on Panera’s menu, and the heaviest soup it sells. Half the country types it as Panera broccoli cheese soup; it is the same bowl. A bowl is $8.60 at 420 calories, a cup $5.57 at 280, and a bread bowl $9.29 at 930. Read from all 2,239 US cafes.
Three sizes on the menu, plus a kids cup and a group tray. Search results split between broccoli cheddar soup panera prices and Panera’s own listing, so here is the whole set: every figure is a national average across the 2,233 cafes that price it.
$5.57
280 calories
Half a bowl, and the size a You Pick Two holds
$8.60
420 calories
The default order, and the size most prices quoted online mean
$9.29
930 calories
A cup of soup in a sourdough loaf you eat afterwards
A Kids Broccoli Cheddar Soup is $6.99 at 280 calories. The adult cup is $5.57 at 280: the same calorie count for $1.42 less. If a smaller portion is what you are after, order the cup.
On the menu at 2,151 cafes
$22.39 for a tray at 990 calories, which is a little over twice a bowl. Priced as one item rather than per head. The rest of the group menu is on our catering page.
On the menu at 2,214 cafes
This is what most people are here for. Panera broccoli cheddar soup nutrition and calorie questions come to more than fifteen thousand searches a month between them, so here is every figure the snapshot holds.
| Size | Price | Calories | Cafe range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cup | $5.57 | 280 | -- |
| Bowl | $8.60 | 420 | $6.79 to $10.99 |
| Bread bowl | $9.29 | 930 | -- |
The bread bowl figure is mostly sourdough: it is a cup of soup in a loaf, so it carries fewer spoonfuls than the bowl above it and around 650 more calories.
It is the heaviest at every size Panera sells it in. Every soup compared is on the soup menu page.
Nothing. This soup carries no Vegetarian tag and no Gluten Conscious tag, and the bread bowl version carries Panera’s high sodium flag.
That absence is the answer to the question people ask most often about it, and it is covered in full below. Figures for the rest of the menu are on our nutrition page.
Three thousand searches a month ask what is in it, and this page had nothing to say about that. Here is what Panera publishes, and what it is careful not to.
Panera publishes a full ingredient list for the retail tub it sells in supermarkets, in descending order by weight:
Then under 2 percent each: onions, a seasoning made with wheat flour, butter, Dijon mustard, a nisin preparation and hot pepper sauce.
Milk and wheat. The wheat is in the seasoning rather than anything you can see, which is why the soup is not gluten conscious even though nothing in the bowl looks like bread.
That list describes the supermarket tub. Panera does not publish the cafe version ingredient by ingredient, so treat it as the closest published account rather than the cafe recipe. The two things both agree on are the two that matter: chicken stock, and wheat.
Panera tags neither, and the ingredient list explains why: a soup built on chicken stock is not vegetarian however few pieces of chicken are in it, and a wheat-flour seasoning rules out the gluten conscious tag.
The soup that does carry both tags is Black Bean, which Panera lists as vegan, vegetarian and gluten conscious. Gluten conscious is Panera’s own wording and does not mean a gluten-free kitchen, so anyone with coeliac disease should ask the cafe rather than rely on a menu tag.
Panera has never published the cafe recipe, and this page will not pretend otherwise. What is available is a close copycat, and it lives where a recipe belongs rather than on a price page.
If you are looking for a recipe for broccoli cheddar soup from panera bread that works in a home pan rather than a commercial kettle, our guide walks through the cheddar base, the broccoli and the carrot, and how to keep the sauce from splitting.
Read the copycat recipe guideEvery figure below comes from the same reading of 2,239 cafes as the table above it.
A bowl is 420 calories and a cup is 280. In a bread bowl it comes to 930, because the sourdough is counted in the total.
That makes it the heaviest soup Panera serves at every size. The lightest is Black Bean at 140 calories a bowl. Full figures for the rest are on our soup menu page.
$8.60 for a bowl, $5.57 for a cup and $9.29 in a bread bowl, averaged across 2,239 US cafes.
What a cafe charges moves either side of that: the bowl runs $6.79 to $10.99 depending on where you are.
Panera publishes a full list for the retail tub it sells in supermarkets, and it opens: milk, chicken stock, water, broccoli, pasteurised process cheddar cheese, heavy cream, carrots and corn starch, then under 2 percent onions, a wheat-flour seasoning, butter, Dijon mustard, nisin preparation and hot pepper sauce.
Panera does not publish the cafe version ingredient by ingredient, so treat that as the closest published account rather than the cafe recipe. What both agree on is the part that matters: it contains milk and wheat, and it is built on a chicken stock.
Neither. Panera does not tag this soup vegetarian and does not tag it gluten conscious, and the published ingredients list chicken stock and a wheat-flour seasoning.
If you want a soup that carries both tags, Panera tags Black Bean vegan, vegetarian and gluten conscious. Gluten conscious is Panera's own wording and does not mean a gluten-free kitchen: anyone with coeliac disease should ask the cafe rather than rely on a menu tag. Our gluten conscious guide goes through what the tag covers.
Panera has never published the cafe recipe. What is available is a close copycat, and our panera bread broccoli cheddar soup recipe guide walks through the cheddar base, the broccoli and the carrot, and how to keep the sauce from splitting.
If you are looking for a recipe for broccoli cheddar soup from panera bread that works in a home pan rather than a commercial kettle, that is the one to follow.
It is $0.69 more than a bowl and adds about 510 calories, nearly all of it sourdough.
It also holds less soup than the bowl does, because the loaf takes up the room. Worth it if the bread is the point; an expensive way to buy soup if it is not.
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