American super chef Gordon Ramsay revealed that he never eats food on the plane and always prepares his own food, according to Sun.
`I’ve worked for many airlines for 10 years, I know where food comes from and how long it takes for a tray of food to reach passengers,` said Ramsay.
You may change your mind when you learn the following unpleasant truths:
The rice you eat can be cooked 3 days in advance
Although each meal may have the word `Fresh` stamped on it, most food on airplanes is cooked long before it reaches passengers.
Salads, desserts, sandwiches, plastic cutlery sets and napkins will be pre-arranged on trays from the underground factory, before being put on carts to be transported to the cabin.
However, Peter Jones, an expert on aviation food, said: `They can keep meals in cold storage for up to 5 days, according to international food safety and hygiene standards.`
Hot food portions are cooked in giant industrial pans, canned with aluminum lids and put into quick-cooling warehouses within 90 minutes, at 5 degrees Celsius. Food is always kept in cold metal boxes until
You can get sick just because of the ‘meager’ meals on the plane
Professor Charles Spence of Oxford University affirmed that from takeoff to landing, on average each passenger will consume 3,400 calories, not counting what is consumed when eating and drinking at the airport.
According to nutrition experts, the number of calories needed per day to serve all activities is 2,320 for men, 1,900 for women, 2,300 for pregnant women and 2,500 for postpartum and breastfeeding women.
On average, each dish on the plane contains about 360-400 calories.
`You think that on the plane you only eat a little food and drink a few glasses of fruit juice. But in reality, 3,400 calories are equivalent to 6.5 double-decker hamburgers. Excess calories will affect your health.`
Air pressure can cause your body to swell, especially your legs and internal organs.
To limit this situation, nutrition experts suggest that you choose foods that require less oxygen to digest such as tomatoes, beans or peanuts.
The dirtiest place is also the place where food is kept
Hygiene experts recommend bringing disinfectant napkins when flying.
Food in first class is only worth more than the cutlery
Economy class meal versus business class meal
Economy class meals (above) compared to first class meals.
Whether you sit in first class or economy class, the food comes from the same oven: the airline food processing plant located near the airport.
The hostess team will be instructed by the chefs on how to delicately present each dish.
Charles Spence, professor of psychology at Oxford University, said: `We demonstrated that people will appreciate and pay more for using heavy cutlery. Plastic makes food taste 10% less.
Billions of airline meals are prepared each year
In Europe, most of the meals of more than 260 airlines are processed at Gate Gourmet factory, Switzerland or LSG Sky Chefs, Germany.
The truth may make you dare not touch the food on the plane
Inside the world’s largest aviation food processing factory.
On average, each factory prepares about 25,000 meals a day, the world’s largest airline food factory in Dubai produces up to 170,000 meals a day.
The amount of food equivalent to millions of meals amounts to 58 million loaves of bread, 4,300 tons of chicken, and 3.6 tons of lobster each year.
`The challenge is not the food, the most difficult part is the process of bringing food and other items onto the plane. An average civil aircraft needs up to 40,000 separate dishes for each flight, sometimes
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