Meal Kit Delivery: Where 5 of Your Favorite Companies Source Their Ingredients
Meal kit delivery companies are stepping up to make our lives a little easier at home. The idea is simple. Just choose a subscription plan, pick out your favorite meals online, and receive all the fresh ingredients and recipe instructions for each perfectly portioned meal right on your doorstep.
There's no doubt that these services can save time, reduce food waste and cut down on trips to the grocery store. But do they also add another level of separation between the farm and the plate? If we're not picking out the ingredients in our meals, who is? Where do the ingredients come from and how are they selected? Scroll through the slideshow below to learn how five popular meal kit delivery companies source their ingredients.
Green Chef
Green Chef is a USDA certified organic company that specializes in healthy meal kits with organic ingredients and eco-friendly packaging. The company works with farmers around the U.S. to source sustainable ingredients for each meal. All Green Chef produce is certified organic unless otherwise labeled, and all packaged ingredients will contain the green USDA certified organic seal.
The company also strives to get all the ingredients to your kitchen before the grocery store could. They work with a wide range of suppliers to source in-season ingredients that don’t spend much time on the shelf after harvest.
To learn more about Green Chef’s ingredients and selection process, click here.