Pack up your troubles in your meal kit bag (and smile)

Plant-based proteins and meal kit companies have a lot to commiserate about: Both sectors, having stirred up strong interest and emotions around their novel value propositions, have found themselves on the receiving end of a disproportionate amount of consumer disappointment and bad press.

And yet, the value propositions remain and both industries have financially strong players still in the game — and they increasingly are finding one another, enabling them to both introduce their…