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United Airlines Introduces New Premium Cabin Nut Mix

Matthew Klint Posted onJanuary 30, 2025January 30, 2025 11 Comments

a bowl of nuts on a counter

Out with the almonds and broken cashews, in with the pecans…and pretzels? For the first time in decades, United Airlines is changing its premium cabin nut mix.

New Premium Cabin Nut Mix On United Airlines Will Include Pretzels

If you’re a regular flyer on United Airlines in Polaris business or domestic first class, you’re quite familiar with the small white ramekin of mixed nuts (hopefully warmed) served before meals. For years, the contents have been simple: salted cashews (often broken) and almonds.

But the times they are a-changin.

Starting in February 2025, United will introduce a new combination of nuts it describes as a “mouthwatering blend of roasted and Italian-seasoned almonds, cashews, pecans and gluten-free pretzels” on flights deaparting from the United States.

Pecans? My favorite tree nut.

Pretzels? Not my favorite…there’s nothing premium about them, in my opinion.

I should just wait and try these before making any critical observation, but I will say that pretzels tend to be like peanuts…you put pretzels in a bag with other things and everything tastes like a pretzel.

The new mix will still be mostly almonds and cashews:

  • 40% almonds
  • 40% cashews
  • 10% pecans
  • 10% gluten-free pretzels

Both Delta Air Lines and American Airlines offer a nice mixed nut mix that includes pecans…and also pistachios, another of my favorites. It’s good to see United moving beyond the broken cashews.

a bowl of nuts on a table
Mixed nuts on American Airlines
a bowl of mixed nuts
Mixed nuts on Delta Air Lines

But hopefully, we won’t soon be yearning for those broken cashews over pretzels…

a glass of water with a lemon slice and a bowl of nuts

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Matthew Klint

Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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11 Comments

  1. Timothy Reply
    January 30, 2025 at 11:07 am

    D’oh! I have an allergy to pecans so I won’t be able to enjoy this new mix. That’s okay, I’m more of a hot towel kind of guy anyway.

  2. David Reply
    January 30, 2025 at 11:38 am

    I hate pecans. But it’s better than this.

  3. Bob Reply
    January 30, 2025 at 1:33 pm

    I like it. More variety, as opposed to their current 90% Almond mix.

  4. M. Casey Reply
    January 30, 2025 at 1:55 pm

    I’ve noticed, the almonds are not crunchy but soft.

  5. CRS- Reply
    January 30, 2025 at 2:17 pm

    Glad you noticed. The change sounds good, I hope it is. Variety is the spice of life I’ve heard.

  6. Brandon Reply
    January 30, 2025 at 8:14 pm

    Alaska Airlines recently added pretzels to their nut mix as well

  7. emercycrite Reply
    January 31, 2025 at 9:32 pm

    Wow amazing!

  8. John Reply
    February 5, 2025 at 1:12 pm

    What percentage of people in the US have a nut allergy? Thats roughly the percentage of revenue that United and Delta throw away every year by choosing to serve nuts in a confined space.

  9. Larry Hunter Reply
    March 6, 2025 at 1:08 am

    Tasted the new mix on March 3 DEN -> KOA. Meh. I prefer the plain nuts without the coating.

    • Matthew Klint Reply
      March 6, 2025 at 11:31 am

      Was it mostly pretzels?

  10. Nick Reply
    April 26, 2025 at 1:49 pm

    The new mix is vile. Someone at United has gone to an enormous effort to overseason them, leaving an indelible aftertaste that lasts the whole flight. Why have they expended so much energy in making something worse? Just use salt, keep it simple.

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