Best Healthy Meal Delivery Services, Tested & Reviewed (2025)

The meals tend to follow a protein plus vegetable plus starch format, which, while a bit repetitive after weeks of testing, meant they all felt balanced. Vegetable portions in particular felt generous—not always a given in the world of meal delivery services.

What we’d leave: While Factor meals are well executed for microwave meals, they are still, at the end of the day, microwave meals. After two weeks of eating six meals a week, I was ready for something homecooked. With that in mind, this would be a great service to mix in with a few nights of actual cooking.

Pehlivan and I also both found that some of the vegetable sides were both repetitive and a bit waterlogged after their trips to the microwave—though not egregiously so.

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The best healthy meal delivery service for plant-based eaters: Purple Carrot

Tester: Carina Finn and Adam Campbell-Schmitt

What we loved: Purple Carrot is an entirely plant-based meal delivery service that offers both meal kits and ready-to-eat meals. Over the past few years, multiple BA contributors have tested the service for several weeks. Every tester came to the same conclusion: This is an excellent meal delivery service for vegans and non-vegans alike. “My experience with Purple Carrot was easily one of the better meal kits I’ve tried, vegan or not,” writes Adam Campbell-Schmitt.

Most meals are a mix of fresh produce and packaged ingredients—think vegan cheeses, pre-cooked grains, and pre-made sauces. Everything is pre-portioned for its respective recipe, which makes prep and cooking extremely seamless.

“I never missed the meat in a Purple Carrot meal. I even found myself getting legitimately excited about my ‘healthy dinner at home’ nights, especially since I didn’t have to grocery shop,” writes Carina Finn. Campbell-Schmitt notes the variety of textures and colors in each meal, as well as the fact that spicy meals are actually spicy—a rare occurrence in the meal kit world. “Whether you’re vegan or not, the Purple Carrot menu won’t leave you bored. I found that one of the best reasons to use Purple Carrot is because everything is big on flavor,” he writes. Finn shared a similar sentiment: “By and large, I found all of the meals to be really well-seasoned, which was a nice change from some other meal kits.”

What we’d leave: Priced at $11–$13.25 depending on your plan, Purple Carrot is on the pricier end of the meal kit spectrum. It’s also not the most beginner-friendly kit. “For example, you will receive a whole russet potato or block of tofu in the kit, but the ingredient list will label it as something like ‘thinly sliced potatoes’ or ‘diced tofu,’” writes Campbell-Schmitt.

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The best organic healthy meal kit: Green Chef

Tester: Brittany Loggins and Kelsey Jane Youngman

What we loved: Green Chef is the first CCOF-certified organic meal kit delivery service, which means they’re committed to sourcing organic fresh produce and eggs, as well as providing organic beef, chicken, and wild-caught seafood as an option. While the company acknowledges that they reserve the right to replace a given ingredient with a high-quality conventional option if the organic option doesn’t meet their quality standards, this did not happen during contributor Brittany Loggins’s testing.

Both Loggins and senior service editor Kelsey Jane Youngman praised Green Chef for its generally tasty meals. Youngman loved the Italian Turkey Stuffed Squash Boats, while Loggins highlighted the chicken with lemon crema. Youngman also appreciated the ease of cooking thanks to premade sauces, stocks, and herb blends—and precut vegetables. “I am confident that a beginner cook could easily follow the instructions and make a delicious meal,” she writes.

Green Chef also offers a free one-on-one nutrition coaching session with your first box. While neither of our testers took advantage of this, it’s a great option to have for people with specific health goals.

What we’d leave: Loggins notes that the recipe offerings tended to be pretty formulaic, consisting of a protein, a veggie, and a carb or a starch. “It’s a tried-and-true combo, but I was missing a sense of discovery and innovation with the recipes,” she writes. Youngman felt a few of the recipes didn’t quite work, like a Spiced Salmon with Mango Salsa in which the ratio of purple sweet potatoes to black beans and bell peppers felt off, and the addition of Cotija cheese with the fish wasn’t to Youngman’s taste.

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The best healthy meal delivery service for wellness heads: Sakara

Tester: Emma Laperruque, Carina Finn, and Alaina Chou

What we loved: Sakara is a wellness-focused meal delivery and supplement brand with two nutrition program offerings: their Signature Nutrition Program and their Level II Detox. Meals are entirely plant-based, dairy-free, and gluten-free. They’re also an aesthetically-minded wellness head’s dream: think rainbow-hued salads, veggie-laden soups, and protein-rich breakfast parfaits crowned with granola.

We’ve extensively tested both of Sakara’s nutrition programs and think the Signature Program is the way to go if you’re looking for something to subscribe to long-term. Both associate director of cooking Emma Laperruque and contributor Carina Finn praised Sakara’s balanced, thoughtfully-designed meals. The salads in particular were a highlight for Laperruque: “They’re generously portioned, so you have enough fuel to power you through the afternoon, and they’re thoughtfully designed with a range of textures and colors. Just about every dressing I wished I had a full bottle of to keep in the fridge for future meals.”