Virgin America and Air Canada Top List of Healthy In-Flight Eats, Southwest and Spirit on Bottom

Dietdective.com has conducted a recent survey of the food offerings on nine different airlines in order to determine which airlines offer health-conscious options and which are the most apt to cause your body to spill over into the next seat during the duration of your flight.

At the top of the list of healthy in-flight food were options offered by Virgin America and Air Canada. Both of these airlines offer healthy snacks including vegetables and hummus, nuts, and filling meals like an egg and vegetable wrap offered by Virgin America that has only 370 calories and is high in protein.

The airlines in the middle of the health rankings for the nine studied were United Airlines, US Airways, Jetblue, American Airlines, and Delta Airlines. These airlines offer mostly healthy options for full meals but do not tend to provide snacks that feature low calorie counts or high levels of nutrition.

The worst airlines for anyone planning on eating on a flight and consuming as many calories in air as the number of feet in the flight's cruising altitude are Southwest Airlines and Spirit Airlines. Spirit would not provide any nutritional information at all, so it seems pretty obvious that there can't be much (if any) good going on there. Southwest's (and Spirit's) biggest issue is the lack of options in general- none of which are even remotely healthy.