Bringing nuts, seeds, legumes, and beans to NZ

Nuts

Examples:

Almonds, peanuts, cashew, hazelnut, macadamia, walnut, peanut butter

Allowed if:

It is commercially manufactured and packaged, and is listed here:

All chopped nuts	Hazelnut (no shell)
Almond	Lotus Nut
Apricot kernel	Macadamia (no shell)
Betel – dried and sliced	Peanut
Brazil	Pecan (no shell)
Candle nut	Pine nut – clean, extracted from the cone & free of any cone scales (woody covering)
Cashew	Pistachio
Chestnut (no shell)	Tahitian / Island / Polynesian chestnut (no shell)
Ginkgo – dried and with no fleshy material	Walnut (no shell)
All honey roasted nuts (do not require refrigeration)

Weight limit:

2kg per product

Declare the item?

Yes

Inspection required?

Yes

Clearance guaranteed?

Examples:

Chia, poppy, pumpkin, quinoa

Allowed if:

It is listed here:

Amaranth	Melon
Annatto – processed colouring	Poppy – not type papaver somniferum
Buckwheat – flour, or whole and cracked	Pumpkin
Caraway	Quinoa
Chia	Sesame
Cucumber	Sunflower – kibbled, or hulled in muesli/trail mix
Job's Tears	Watermelon
Linseed

Extra tip:

Do not bring poppy seed type papaver somniferum.

Weight limit:

2kg per product

Declare the item?

Yes

Inspection required?

Yes

Clearance guaranteed?

Examples:	Hemp seed flour
Allowed if:	Hemp seeds as food are allowed if it is powdered, crumbed, ground or baked.
Extra tip:	Do not bring whole hemp seed.
Declare the item?	Yes
Inspection required?	Yes
Clearance guaranteed?	No Check our legal disclaimer to find out why we can't guarantee clearance

Examples:	Lentil, broad bean, chickpea, mung, peas, pulse
Allowed if:	It is split, flour, or ground, and does not contain bugs, seeds, soil, disease, or other plant or animal material.
Extra tip:	Do not bring whole or seeds for sprouting legumes and beans.
Weight limit:	2kg per product
Declare the item?	Yes
Inspection required?	Yes
Clearance guaranteed?	No Check our legal disclaimer to find out why we can't guarantee clearance

Examples:	Soya sauce, tofu, soya flour, soya curd, cooked soya, frozen soya, soya milk, split soya beans, grit beans, kibbled soya beans, tempeh
Allowed if:	It is not whole soya beans.
Weight limit:	2kg per product
Declare the item?	Yes
Inspection required?	Yes
Clearance guaranteed?	No Check our legal disclaimer to find out why we can't guarantee clearance