There are foods mostly consumed in Nigeria that are prohibited to carry (or eat) into another country. It is very important to know about these food items to avoid embarrassment at the airport or get arrested.

However, while some of these mouth-watering food items are legal and consumed in Nigeria and some parts of Africa, they remain banned in other countries. These food items include:

Bushmeat

Did you know that bushmeat is sometimes called game meat?. Animals such as antelopes, wild pigs, rabbits, squirrels, alligators, crocodiles and other non-domesticated animals are used in the preparation of bushmeat. A spicy, roasted meat known for its unique taste.

As enticing and savory as bushmeat is, it is banned in the United States of America due to health concerns like these animals being carriers of diseases like ebola, and cholera, deeming them risky to consume.

Coffee-mate Coffee Creamer

In countries like Austria, Hungary and several Scandinavian nations, the use of a particular type of oil, extracted from soybeans and cottonseeds in products like coffee creamer, is prohibited. This is due to the occurrence of trans fat, which happens when an industrial process adds hydrogen to vegetable oil and makes it turn into a solid when it’s not supposed to.

This same phenomenon is responsible for vegetable oil and palm oil turning solid in room temperature.

Cottonseed oil can also sneak into things like cookies, crackers, margarine, and even mayonnaise. So, in some places, they’ve said, “No way!” to this oil because it’s unhealthy.

Raw Ackee Fruit

It is usually eaten with salt fish rather than alone as the tastes mix well together.

The ackee is a member of the soapberry family, native to West Africa, with Cote d’Ivoire, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Nigeria, and is commonly known as the African apple.

The fruit is popular in Southern Nigeria where it is known as ishin. It is banned in Jamaica when unripe because of its poisonous nature and most ackee products have been banned from import into the U.S for the past 30 years because of concerns about poisoning from unripe fruit.