Abstract: A heated warming apparatus for food products comprises, one or a plurality of food containers, a housing for accomodating the food containers, and a hot-air fan whose discharge opening leads in the housing. Since in such conventional apparatus, the hot air blown from the hot-air fan into the housing flows along the exterior of the food containers which mostly are cardboard containers, the transfer of heat to the food products contained in the containers is poor. In order to maintain a sufficiently high temperature of the food products the hot air has to be heated intensively. The object of the invention is to reduce the required heating power in an apparatus of this type. This object is achieved by providing each food container with one or a plurality of inlet holes and one or a plurality of outlet holes for the hot air, and each food container is arranged in the housing such that at least one of its holes in in fluid communication with the discharge opening.