US EditionProgresso brings back soup drops for flu season
Progresso offers a $2.97 bundle with three soup-flavored hard candies and a can of chicken noodle soup, sold exclusively online at Walmart during National Soup Month.
- On Jan. 15, 2026, Progresso relaunched its limited-edition Soup Drops, adding two new flavors to the hard-candy variety.
- Amid rising flu cases, Progresso timed its relaunch with the CDC reporting more than 15 million cases, offering this year's Soup Drops as enhanced comfort during illness.
- Sold exclusively on Walmart.com, the $2.97 bundle includes Progresso Chicken Noodle Soup, the Soup Drops Variety Can with three flavors delivering warmth, and free shipping for Walmart+ members from 9 a.m. ET Thursday.
- High demand has driven rapid sellouts, with last January’s drops sold out in minutes and this year’s batch in two hours, prompting Progresso’s January weekly release schedule and Thursday restocks.
- The move positions Progresso within the novelty food-drop trend that began with its first Soup Drops debut in January 2025 and markets the limited run during National Soup Month at ProgressoSoupDrops.com.
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Yes, they still taste like real soup.ProgressoNo spoon? No bowl? No problem. Progresso’s new “soup” might come in a can, but it certainly doesn’t need one. That’s because it’s full of cough-drop-inspired hard soup candies—and it’s not an early April Fool’s prank, either.These one-of-a-kind soup-flavored candies were first created by Progresso last year, for National Soup Month. Now that soup season is upon us again, the brand is offering custome…
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Progresso brings back soup drops for flu season
The hard candy mimics a cough drop and features three of Progresso's most iconic soup flavors.
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