Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:
The New Zealand government's main site is Check if you can bring or send an item to NZ . Following it to specific food items, it says about: Spices : Allowed if: If it is dried and ground, commercially manufactured and packaged. Nuts : Allowed if: It is commercially manufactured and packaged, and is listed here. So in both cases, it is a clear no for non-commercial produce. Regarding dates , they say: Allowed if: It is fully dried, freeze-dried, dehydrated, juiced, pureed, pulped, cooked, roasted, stewed, minced, baked, parboiled, preserved, pickled, powdered, flaked, made into syrup, made into pills, made into capsules, or commercially frozen. This seems to rule out fresh dates.
Full answer by Weather Vane: https://travel.stackexchange.com/a/179817 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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