United Airlines Introduces New Premium Cabin Nut Mix

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.

Mixed nuts on American Airlines
Mixed nuts on Delta Air Lines

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