If you’re looking for health food in Detroit, your best bet might be the airport.
Detroit airport: healthy food and cool fountains. Photo: aschweigert (Flickr)
Yes, that’s right. The Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport has been number one for healthiest airport food for three years running. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine conducts the annual restaurant review of the country’s busiest airports.
The review determines whether restaurants have at least one low-fat, cholesterol-free meal available. If they do, they’re considered a “healthful restaurant,” and a percentage of healthful out of total restaurants is calculated. (Never mind that most of us are looking right past the tofu for the turkey club).
Detroit’s airport scored a perfect 100 percent — 59 out of 59 restaurants carried at least one healthy option. As recent as 2001, Detroit was at the bottom of the list with only 33 percent of restaurants with a healthy option.
Another Great Lakes region airport, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, was fourth with 92 percent.
Overall, 83 percent of restaurants in the 15 airports reviewed were labeled “healthful.” Hartfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world’s busiest according to the report, landed in last with an artery-clogging 71 percent.