Get the Yumbox for braces-friendly lunches

The Yumbox Tapas is the best lunch box for people with braces because its small compartments keep soft foods from turning into one sad mush pile.

Braces lunches are a logistics problem. You’re eating yogurt, applesauce, mashed potatoes, pasta, and soft fruit — and none of those survive being thrown in a single big container. The Yumbox handles it because it has six separate compartments, sized for small portions of exactly the foods you actually can eat. The seal is genuinely leak-proof, the whole thing goes in the dishwasher, and the tiny wells mean your applesauce doesn’t swim into your mac and cheese.

If the Yumbox feels too small, the Bentgo Kids is the runner-up. It has five compartments and bigger portions, but the wells are larger and less useful for the “tiny bit of everything” soft-food diet. If you want to carry hot soft food like soup or instant mashed potatoes, go with the OmieBox instead — it has a thermos built in, plus a compartment for the cold stuff.

The main thing is to avoid any lunch box with one big open space. With braces, you’re eating smaller amounts more often, and small compartments exist to solve exactly that. Your brackets will thank you.