United Airlines' healthy, Heart Smart meals win international catering award.CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 1996--United Airlines' innovative Heart Smart inflight Special Meal program won a silver medal at the International Flight Catering Association 1996 Mercury Awards ceremony, surpassing entries by British Airways British Airways in full British Airways PLC International passenger airline based in London. In 1936 British Airways Ltd. was founded through the merger of three smaller airlines. and Swissair. The international event, held earlier this month in Rome, honors air carriers and food service companies from around the world for creativity and excellence in inflight catering. For the past seven months, United Airlines has worked closely with Heart Smart Restaurants International to provide air travelers with Special Meals that are lower in calories, saturated fat saturated fat, any solid fat that is an ester of glycerol and a saturated fatty acid. The molecules of a saturated fat have only single bonds between carbon atoms; if double bonds are present in the fatty acid portion of the molecule, the fat is said to be and cholesterol. All vegetarian, religious, medical and lighter choice Special Meals served by United Airlines meet the Heart Smart guidelines and are accompanied by a fact card that spells out nutritional information. Meals meeting the guidelines must contain 30 percent or less calories from total fat, 10 percent or less calories from saturated fat, 150 mg. or less cholesterol, and 1,100 mg. or less sodium. "Our partnership with Heart Smart enhances our position as a leader and innovator in the airline industry," says Larry De Shon, United Airlines Director-Onboard Services-North America. "Today's travelers are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. the same healthy meal choices while on the road that they enjoy at home." The Mercury Award was the second honor United's Heart Smart meals have received. Last Fall, the U.S.-based Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine cited United as having the healthiest meals among U.S. air carriers. United Airlines offers more than two dozen different types of Special Meals to fulfill the medical, dietary or religious requirements of its passengers, including Kosher kosher [Heb.,=proper, i.e., fit for use], in Judaism, term used in rabbinic literature to mean what is ritually correct, but most widely applied to food that is in accordance with dietary laws based on Old Testament passages (primarily Lev. 11 and Deut. 14). , Hindu, Moslem and Obento o·ben·to or ben·to n. pl. o·ben·tos A Japanese meal that is packed in a partitioned lacquered box. [Japanese obent meals; Diabetic, Low Sodium and Low Cholesterol meals; Seafood, Chicken and Vegetarian meals; and a number of others. Heart Smart Restaurants International, headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz., provides comprehensive nutritional analysis to restaurants, contract food service companies, food vending machine vending machine, coin-operated, automatic device for selling goods. Many vending machines are capable of making change, and some of the more sophisticated ones accept paper money or credit cards. companies, and companies involved in catering operations. As the largest air carrier in the world and the largest majority employee-owned company, United Airlines offers more than 2,200 flights a day to 143 destinations in 30 countries and three U.S. territories. United Airlines internet address There are two kinds of addresses that are widely used on the Internet. One is a person's e-mail address, and the other is the address of a Web site, which is known as a URL. Following is an explanation of Internet e-mail addresses only. For more on URLs, see URL and Internet domain name. is http://www.ual.com CONTACT: United Airlines, Chicago Corporate Communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. Contacts: Tony Molinaro, 847/952-4971 Night/Weekend, 847/952-4088 |
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