Nagasaki Joe

Whoever said the Japanese diet is healthy knew nothing about Japanese bento food culture. Dry, starchy, plenty of fried food, few vegetables, a carb-fest, no wonder constipation is a common ailment in Japan. And those supposedly wonderful ekiben are pretty much the same (though there may be exceptions here and there). If you eat three meals a day and one of them is a store-bought bento (as it is for many people), that will likely be your least healthy meal of the day. I'll admit, for some it may be their healthiest, God forbid. A meal served in the economy section of a flight is probably about the same quality as a bento, maybe better.