It goes without saying that the food that airlines serve up as part of their inflight meal service is very bland or unappetising. But is it really their fault? Well the simple answer to that is no it isn’t. Did you know you leave your tastebuds at the departure gate when you board an aircraft and take off, climb to thousands of feet to the cruise. Did you know nearly every single food becomes manipulated in some way shape or form. Say an aircraft was flying at 30’000 feet and you were served some pasta bolognese it wouldn’t really taste of anything as tastebuds and sense of smell are the first things to disappear at high altitude. So is this why so many people say that in flight meals are bad for you. Lots of salt is added to the meals to enable the person to taste the food. Cruising on a plane at 30’000 feet the humidity inside the aircraft is less than 12%. In flight meals are batched cooked on a huge scale. To watch you’ll see the chefs adding considerable quantities of herbs and spices to compensate peoples tastebuds. After a flight you can almost guarantee that most people cannot wait to get off the aircraft to reach for a bottle of water to rehydrate themselves.
Gareth Edwards
Gareth is one of the founders and owners of final approach. Gareth covers many of the airports across the North west including Manchester, Liverpool & Hawarden. Gareth is the main designer of the website.
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