Royal Jordanian Airlines offers complimentary meals to all passengers, expect hot meals, or cold snacks boxes depending on your flight time. The Economy class menu at Royal Jordanian is quite extensive, featuring over 40 different dishes.
Note that alcohol is only served on medium-haul and long-haul flights on Royal Jordanian. The BBML or Baby Meal can be ordered for infants under 2 years of age depending on the airline, some airlines will only supply the BBML to an infant up to 10 months only and will normally consist of pre-packaged baby meal products. It will usually contain vegetables, fresh fruit, dried fruits, legumes, dairy products, tofu, cereal, grains and vegetarian gelatine.
These special meals will normally contain foods that are easily digested, soft to eat and with limited spices. Generally, the FPML will contain fresh seasonal fruit only, and it may contain dried fruit without sulphites. Grains such as wheat, rye, oats, bran and barley are eliminated from these special meals as well as flours starches and semolina. Meals are non-vegetarian and cooked Indian style.
The meals are packaged in double wrapping which allows the meals to be heated in the aircraft oven that is non-kosher. Some airlines aim to have no more than calories per meal, but this will vary from airline to airline. The LFML or Low Fat meal is a meal of limited fat and cholesterol suited to people who wish to follow a low-fat restricted diet. The LSML or Low Salt meal is suited for people with high blood pressure, heart disease, fluid retention or kidney problems.
No salt will be used during the preparation of food, and airlines try to avoid using food that contains added salt. No Haram forbidden products will be used in these meals including pork products, gelatin, alcohol, extracted flavouring from alcohol and non-halal prepared meats. The NLNL or Non-Lactose meal is a lactose-free meal for people who are allergic or intolerant to milk and milk products, or those suffering from low lactose levels.
