It seems like the type of question the Web was designed to answer, but after an hour on Google, all I’ve found out is not to smuggle drugs. My official port of entry in the Frankfurt Airport. I’m flying from Saigon via Bangkok. I’d appreciate any advice anyone can give!
According to this page (German-language) of the German customs service you can bring food for your private consumtion with a number of restrictions, the main ones being:
- no mushrooms from Eastern Europe, except quantities < 2 kg (because of residual Chernobyl contamination)
- no potatoes, even in small quantities (to guard against a potato disease)
- no caviar from sturgeons, except 250 g for personal consumption (to protect this endangered species)
- specific restrictions apply to foodstuffs of animal origin (meat, cheese, etc.) (protection against spread of livestock diseases)
- restrictions on certain substances that are regulated as nutrition supplements in some other countries but as medical substances (i.e. more restrictively) in Germany. For example, vitamins in high doses or ginseng. These can only be imported in travelers’ baggage in small quantities for the traveler’s own use.
So it seems taking fruit for your own consumption is OK.
Contact information for inquiries at the information center of the German customs service.