Where plant-based doesn't deliver — yet

In the current inflationary environment, the slide in plant-based alt-meat sales has often been partially, sometimes largely, blamed on the products' relatively high price point. But new research blunts that argument.

In a new study by the Plant-Based Foods Assn. and 84.51°, the research arm of the Kroger supermarket company, consumers said consistency and texture of plant-based foods overall were their biggest sticking points, with price coming in second. (Although price was cited most…