# Commercial bone broth: is any of it real, or is it all made of LIES? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [April 10, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-bone-broth-is-any-of-it-real-or-is-it-all-made-of-lies/1016866 "2025-04-10T16:15:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 36
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-bone-broth-is-any-of-it-real-or-is-it-all-made-of-lies/1016866/36 "2025-04-15T12:46:31Z")
I keep a fair amount of homemade frozen stock / bone broth too, but like I said in the OP, I go through a lot of stock, so if I’m, say, making a simple weekday soup out of leftover ingredients in the fridge, I might just go with a commercial stock, and save the ‘liquid gold’ for a weekend meal. Clearly the takeaway is, if you do use a commercial stock or broth, higher price does not equal higher quality, and don’t bother with ‘bone broth’ since it seems like they just call it ‘bone broth’ and charge more. I just now noticed in another chicken stock thread post, America’s Test Kitchen rated Swanson’s stock and broth, among the most inexpensive brand of all the ones they tested, #1, and Kettle & Fire, the super-expensive brand I just tested, as a “not recommended” (they tested stocks and broths, not so-called ‘bone broths’, but still). So I could have saved myself some money and effort on my test of the K&F brand 🙄. Oh well. > [@What is your favorite brand of chicken stock?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-brand-of-chicken-stock/1012756/10): > > The two top picks are Swanson Chicken Stock Swanson Organic Chicken Broth Recommended: Better Than Bouillon Premium Roasted Chicken Base Pacific Foods Organic Free Range Chicken Broth Recommended with reservations: Knorr Granulated Bouillon, Chicken Flavor College Inn Organic Chicken Broth Not recommended: Kitchen Basics Organic Free Range Chicken Stock Progresso Reduced Sodium Chicken Broth Kettle & Fire Organic Chicken Broth Zoup! Organic Chicken Broth I buy only unsalted stocks/br… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-bone-broth-is-any-of-it-real-or-is-it-all-made-of-lies/1016866)._