Airport Food Review: Detroit Healthiest, Atlanta And Washington Lag
The results of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) 10th annual airport food reviews finds that healthy foods are currently more commonly available in the nation’s busiest airports than they were a decade ago; 82% offer at least one low-fat, high-fiber, cholesterol-free, vegetarian entree, which represents an increase of 25% from the same statistic, ten years prior.
In this annual survey, 18 airport restaurants earned points if they included at least one low-fat, high-fiber, cholesterol-free vegetarian entree. The final score was calculated by dividing the airport’s total number of restaurants serving these healthy meals by its total number of restaurants.
The surveyed airport scores and rankings include:
- Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (96%)
- San Francisco International Airport (95%)
- TIE. Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport & Newark Liberty International Airport (90%)
- Washington Dulles International Airport (89%)
- Denver International Airport (88%)
- Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (85%)
- Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (84%)
- TIE. Los Angeles International Airport & Miami International Airport (81%)
- TIE. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport & Orlando International Airport (80%)
- Baltimore/Washington International Airport (79%)
- Las Vegas McCarran International Airport (77%)
- Charlotte Douglas International Airport (72%)
- O’Hare International Airport (71%)
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (70%)
- Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (67%)