# EatWell Meal Kits

> EatWell is a Boston-based social-impact startup that turns meal kits into a healthcare intervention. Founded by Harvard School of Public Health students, it produces prescription meal kits - fresh ingredients plus fast, culturally relevant recipes designed by a Michelin-trained chef - that healthcare providers and insurers prescribe to patients facing food insecurity and chronic disease. Kits are made in Dorchester at CommonWealth Kitchen by production staff hired from the communities EatWell serves, and are reimbursed through MassHealth ACO Flexible Services and health-system partnerships under the growing 'Food is Medicine' model.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** Boston (Brookline), Massachusetts, United States
- **Founders:** Dan Wexler (Co-founder & CEO), Kevin Hall (Co-founder & COO), Adriana Katekawa (Culinary & Education Director)
- **Team size:** ~24 employees
- **Products:** Prescription Meal Kits, Medically Tailored / Culturally Competent Recipes, Provider & Payor Program, Nutrition Education & Culinary Coaching
- **Notable:** Winner, Rabobank-MIT Food & Agribusiness Innovation Prize, MIT Solve Finalist, Citizens Bank Small Business Community Champion Award

## Products & services

- **Prescription Meal Kits** — Boxes of fresh ingredients and fast, one-pot recipes designed to feed a family in about 30 minutes. Prescribed by healthcare providers and reimbursed by payors for eligible patients.
- **Medically Tailored / Culturally Competent Recipes** — Evidence-based recipes developed by a Michelin-trained chef and built around the taste preferences of the communities served, supporting diabetes prevention and chronic disease management.
- **Provider & Payor Program** — A B2B2C channel through which managed care organizations, ACOs, health systems and universities prescribe EatWell kits to at-risk patients, integrating nutrition into value-based care.
- **Nutrition Education & Culinary Coaching** — Behavior-change education and local chef videos that help families build sustainable healthy cooking habits alongside the kits.

## Achievements

- Winner, Rabobank-MIT Food & Agribusiness Innovation Prize
- MIT Solve Finalist
- Citizens Bank Small Business Community Champion Award
- $100,000 grant from the American Heart Association
- Delivered 35,000+ meals during the COVID-19 emergency response (2020-2021)
- Selected for a UMass Lowell impact study backed by a $185,000 BJ's Charitable Foundation grant

## Latest updates

- **2024-01** — Enrolled in a 16-week UMass Lowell study evaluating meal-kit impact, funded by a $185,000 BJ's Charitable Foundation grant.
- **2022-01** — Repositioned as a prescription healthcare tool, serving eligible patients via MassHealth ACO Flexible Services.
- **2020-06** — Raised seed funding and expanded weekly supply of 100+ meal kits to community centers during the pandemic.

## Links

- Website: https://eatwellmealkits.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/eatwellmealkits
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eatwellmealkits/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EatWellMealKits

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