Many of us are still traveling for the holidays. Whether it is on our way home or back out for a fun New Year's trip, we're spending lots of time in airports. The Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine has rated some of the nation's top airports in terms of health. Each airport's score was determined by dividing the number of restaurants offering at least one healthful option by the total number of restaurants — a restaurant was rated as healthful if it served at least one low-fat, high-fiber, cholesterol-free breakfast, lunch, or dinner entrée.
To see if an airport you'll be visiting makes the list, just read more.
| Airport | Score | Healthy Restaurants/ Total Restaurants |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport | 94% | 89/95 |
| 2. (tie) Chicago O’Hare International Airport | 93% | 81/87 |
| 2. (tie) Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport | 93% | 56/60 |
| 3. (tie) Los Angeles International Airport | 89% | 50/56 |
| 4. Denver International Airport | 84% | 41/49 |
| 5. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport | 82% | 46/56 |
| 6. Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport | 81% | 47/58 |
| 7. San Francisco International Airport | 77% | 46/60 |
| 8. (tie) Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport | 84% | 49/58 |
| 8. John F. Kennedy International Airport | 76% | 62/82 |
| 9. Las Vegas McCarran International Airport | 75% | 33/44 |
| 10. Orlando International Airport | 73% | 29/40 |
If you really want to be healthy in the airport, you should also check out getting a flu shot at the airport and what (if any) airport gyms are available.
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interesting. I never seem to see healthy things at the airport, but maybe I'm just not looking hard enough!!
1Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport wasn't that bad, but LAX was GROSS!
2am i dumb, or is minneapolis on there twice?
3No Logan....
4
DTW!!
5I don't remember seeing too many particularly healthy foods or places to eat in any of the airports I've been in and I've been in quite a few...
6Yay O'hare!
7i was just at DFW yesterday - but mind you it was 5am...so it's not like i would have eaten all that much.
8Aw, no Ontario International Airport here in southern California!!! BOOOO. I'm like three minutes away. It's a gorgeous airport, small and very organized.
9I flew out to Denver a few weeks ago to visit my sister in law and we went through Minneapolis. I really like the Minneapolis airport. There's a lot of healthy restaurants and the concourse is set up really nice for walking around during your layover. (If you don't use the moving sidewalks, that is).
10Mmmmmm....well my airport isn't here so...but I don't recall seeing anything healthy in Orlando or Vegas?
11Reading between the lines a bit (and knowing the PRMC criteria, which was edited a touch for this blurb), cholesterol-free is vegan or at least low-fat vegetarian item offered on the menu of a sit-down, non-kiosk restaurant. Which I appreciate, since I've been veg since I'm a kid but you can always get something, even on the fly. It's great that alternatives are offered but we should be able to ask, too. That said, the Denver-Metro area as a whole, Boulder especially is very foodie and very conscious about choices and local options.
12ugh I HATE SFO!
13All healthy places in JFK must have been on a different floor, in a different terminal, whatever... a few days ago.
So I decided to give in to my chocolate cravings.
14It really does make a different if you can find healthy food at the airport, especially since you are there for so long. (Just don't forget to bring a "healthy" wad of cash - these places are EXPENSIVE!)
15french meadow bakery at MSP is great
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