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.
But hopefully, we won’t soon be yearning for those broken cashews over pretzels…
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.
I hate pecans. But it’s better than this.
I like it. More variety, as opposed to their current 90% Almond mix.
I’ve noticed, the almonds are not crunchy but soft.
Glad you noticed. The change sounds good, I hope it is. Variety is the spice of life I’ve heard.
Alaska Airlines recently added pretzels to their nut mix as well
Wow amazing!
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.
Tasted the new mix on March 3 DEN -> KOA. Meh. I prefer the plain nuts without the coating.
Was it mostly pretzels?
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.