The best and worst foods to eat on a plane, according to an airline meal expert

Courtesy Nikos LoukasLoukas gave EVA Air's "Hello Kitty" meal an 8.6 out of 10.

Nikos Loukas has sampled airline meals on around 400 flights with over 50 airlines as the creator of inFlightFeed, an online guide to airplane food.

"I've always loved planes, I love food, so it's kind of a mixture of both," he told INSIDER about the inspiration for his site.

Originally from Australia, he's been in the travel industry for 15 years and currently works as a training manager, but his expertise expands beyond the corporate underpinnings of air travel. It's the food that continues to pique his interest and whet his palette. He's even crowdfunding a documentary called "The Inflight Food Trip - It's Not Just Plane Food!" that goes behind-the-scenes of inflight meal production.

VimeoLoukas in his documentary about airlines and airline food.

Plane food is often notorious for being tasteless and rubbery, but Loukas shared a few of his tricks of the trade to make your next meal positively gourmet. Or, at least, edible.