a separate area of the kitchen according to each airline's specification. Vegetarian meals, seafood, and low-fat and low-cholesterol foods are amongst the most frequently requested meals generally prepared by the flight caterer. The remaining SPMLs would be outsourced to specialist facilities for their preparation, especially kosher, Muslim, and Hindu. A number of religious ritualar visits to the kitchen, or in some cases being permanently based there.
Once completed, special meals are labelled and loaded into designated meal trolleys. All ths translates into higher food cost. At persent nutritional information is not provided to the passenger although some do carry a make of approval from heart foundation, environment groups and other institutes. BA, for example, indicate a meal in a 'well-being selection' with an asterisk (*).