Nutrition Review of Meal-Kit Delivery Programs - Be Well Solutions (2024)

Service

Average

Kcal

Average

Fat*

Average

Sodium*

Cost Range per Person

EveryPlate

Dinnerly

Blue Apron

Hello Fresh

Purple Carrot

Marley Spoon

Sunbasket

Average

Fast Food Meal**

EveryPlate

Choose from menus classified as Classic, Vegetarian, Family, and Easy. Recipes did not include enough vegetables to be considered a serving. A lot of potatoes to mash, so you might get to learn a new skill? Any money saved on theses kits should be spent on fruits and vegetables to round out the meals.

Dinnerly

Choose from menus classified as Regular or Vegetarian. Probably need to add more vegetables since the recipes did not include very much. Company does not report all nutrition information on the website such as fiber and sodium. Again, you will need to purchase produce to make their options healthy.

Blue Apron

Choose from menus classified as Vegetarian, Signature, and Wellness. Blue Apron is better with vegetable offerings than Dinnerly and EveryPlate. Although, caution that one “wellness” recipe option had 1,250 mg sodium per serving.

Hello Fresh

Choose from menus with one or all of the following options: Meat and Vegetables, Veggie, Family Friendly, Fit and Wholesome, Quick and Easy, and Pescatarian. The recipes offered to you will fall in the category(s) selected. Potatoes used as the starch option often, but might need to add your own vegetables at times. This program had more than half the fat and salt in one meal (on average) than needed in your whole day!

Purple Carrot

This menu is a plant based, so there are plenty of vegetables. Choose from breakfast, lunch, or dinner entrees. Note that you will not see analog/faux meats such as Beyond Meat. This is entirely plant based, so expect whole grains and tofu. Meals have the lowest fat content, on average, of all the compared delivery programs and acceptable sodium per serving.

Marley Spoon

Choices include regular or vegetarian meal options. In partnership with Martha Stewart they offer her favorite recipes. Marley’s average meal has the highest amount of fat per serving of all the meal kit delivery programs evaluated. Sodium content is not published but expect it to be high. Our RD noted that this program does appear to have decent size servings of vegetables (most of the time). Overall, this kit is not necessarily healthy but looks decadent.

Sunbasket

As with most kits, choices include regular, vegetarian, paleo, gluten-free, Mediterranean, pescatarian, and “diabetes-friendly”. This kit’s meals generally offer lower fat, lower sodium, calorie-appropriate choices.