Here’s what you need to know about food safety before your next flight. Avoid raw food — or anything that’s kept cold ...

Airplane food often gets a bad rap. As it turns out, it's not entirely the airlines' fault that food tastes different at 30,000 feet than it does on terra firma — and it's not all in your head ...

Airplane food often gets a bad rap. As it turns out, it’s not entirely the airlines’ fault that food tastes different at 30,000 feet than it does on terra firma — and it’s not all in your ...

The bigger issue, though, is that the "confined nature of airplane travel makes foodborne illness outbreaks especially challenging to manage," Darin Detwiler, a food safety adviser at Northeastern ...

Food safety experts say tainted airplane meals could be more ubiquitous than reported.

However, given the unique challenges involved in serving hundreds of meals in a confined space with recycled air, it’s fair to ask whether airplane food is really safe to eat.

There have been alleged incidents that include rodents, insects and a slew of food poisoning. While federal agencies work to monitor airplane food, experts say that not everything is as it seems.

“Plane food is generally safe and is regulated by the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration],” Jen Dunphy, a doctor in public health, told Yahoo Health.