Nutritional Information on United food
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Nutritional Information on United food
Does anyone know if there is any Nutritional Information for the prepared foods from UA? (Bistro on board, F meals, J meals, UC, Polaris Lounge)
I've started to try and eat healthier and tracking what I eat (mostly saturated fat, sodium, etc). I've noticed that things like that can very greatly in different versions of the same food. It's easy at home, but with the constant travel (on board and in restaurants) it can be difficult.
I've started to try and eat healthier and tracking what I eat (mostly saturated fat, sodium, etc). I've noticed that things like that can very greatly in different versions of the same food. It's easy at home, but with the constant travel (on board and in restaurants) it can be difficult.
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Does anyone know if there is any Nutritional Information for the prepared foods from UA? (Bistro on board, F meals, J meals, UC, Polaris Lounge)
I've started to try and eat healthier and tracking what I eat (mostly saturated fat, sodium, etc). I've noticed that things like that can very greatly in different versions of the same food. It's easy at home, but with the constant travel (on board and in restaurants) it can be difficult.
I've started to try and eat healthier and tracking what I eat (mostly saturated fat, sodium, etc). I've noticed that things like that can very greatly in different versions of the same food. It's easy at home, but with the constant travel (on board and in restaurants) it can be difficult.
Safe Travels,
James
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Yeah, nothing you get on a plane is going to be health food. Some things you can eyeball reasonably well, like cheese. In general cheese is around 100 kcal/oz and an oz is about a cubic inch. Otherwise, you might be able to find similar dishes from popular dining chains on Fitpal and they should be roughly equivalent, since popular chains are going to put in all the extra delicious fat and sugar that make a food have 'flavor' at altitude.
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Essentially, UA is completely uninterested in food and I suspect most of its customers are too.
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There used to be an annual study that contacted all the airlines requesting nutritional information, but I don't think it's been updated in about a year and a half. United wasn't tops. Annual Airline Food Investigation 2017-18 - Diet DetectiveDiet Detective
Edit: There IS an updated version: http://www.dietdetective.com/airline...ation-2018-19/
Edit: There IS an updated version: http://www.dietdetective.com/airline...ation-2018-19/
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Does anyone know if there is any Nutritional Information for the prepared foods from UA? (Bistro on board, F meals, J meals, UC, Polaris Lounge)
I've started to try and eat healthier and tracking what I eat (mostly saturated fat, sodium, etc). I've noticed that things like that can very greatly in different versions of the same food. It's easy at home, but with the constant travel (on board and in restaurants) it can be difficult.
I've started to try and eat healthier and tracking what I eat (mostly saturated fat, sodium, etc). I've noticed that things like that can very greatly in different versions of the same food. It's easy at home, but with the constant travel (on board and in restaurants) it can be difficult.
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No matter what class I am in, I usually eat about 1/2 of the courses served. In international C/F I often skip some of the courses. With such long flights and no where to work out, the calories have no where to go but my tuchus!
(That said, I really try to work out either before or after the flight. I also make sure that I use stairs rather than escalators and that I walk the corridors rather than stand on moving sidewalks).
(That said, I really try to work out either before or after the flight. I also make sure that I use stairs rather than escalators and that I walk the corridors rather than stand on moving sidewalks).
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No word yet from UA on whether pull up bars can be used in the lav to maintain 24 pack abs
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If you're focused on your health and traveling on the road a lot, you might as well only seek out those restaurants or stores that actively tell you exactly what the ingredients are and make healthful options an active part of their style of cooking.
Nothing in normal restaurants or airlines, etc. will be healthy. People rate these things on taste, and taste comes from salt, fat, carbs, sugar. Restaurants and airlines want people to rate them highly, so that is what you're going to get.
Nothing in normal restaurants or airlines, etc. will be healthy. People rate these things on taste, and taste comes from salt, fat, carbs, sugar. Restaurants and airlines want people to rate them highly, so that is what you're going to get.
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Safe Travels,
James