# Baby food banned by TSA--really? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 16, 2012, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-food-banned-by-tsa-really/634874 "2012-09-16T13:20:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-food-banned-by-tsa-really/634874/1 "2012-09-16T13:20:05Z")
My wife once decided that a baby jar (under the 100 g limit) of apple sauce would make a nice snack on an airplane. It was confiscated on the grounds that you can take baby food on board only if you have a baby. Is this really a rule or was the guy making it up on the spot? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-food-banned-by-tsa-really/634874/2 "2012-09-16T13:37:29Z")
Makes sense to me. From what I can tell, the only approved liquid-type-item that doesn’t require a kid to be present is [breast milk](http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/children/formula.shtm). ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-food-banned-by-tsa-really/634874/3 "2012-09-16T13:50:06Z")
Maybe with babyfood but when I had a feeding tube due to cancer I always flew with two 500ml cans of liquid food and never had a problem although sometimes they ran the cans through the bomb sniffer. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-food-banned-by-tsa-really/634874/4 "2012-09-16T13:53:11Z")
I thought any liquid was fine as long as it was under the 100 ml limit. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-food-banned-by-tsa-really/634874/5 "2012-09-16T14:26:42Z")
> [@HazelNutCoffee](#): > > I thought any liquid was fine as long as it was under the 100 ml limit. That’s what _I_ thought, too, but you should have seen the TSA’s reaction when I tried to bring 95mL of nitroglycerin onto my flight. I mean, really! ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-food-banned-by-tsa-really/634874/6 "2012-09-16T14:31:30Z")
I was going to ask why she didn’t bring one of those small cups that are meant for schoolkids’ lunches, but I happen to have some of those, and they are just a little too big…111 ml. Was the jar in her 2-qt plastic baggie? I think that parents get an exception for baby food (they can bring more than what fits in their baggie) and it makes sense that the kid actually has to be there to get the exception. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2012, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-food-banned-by-tsa-really/634874/7 "2012-09-16T17:27:24Z")
> [@Tamex](#): > > Was the jar in her 2-qt plastic baggie? I think that parents get an exception for baby food (they can bring more than what fits in their baggie) and it makes sense that the kid actually has to be there to get the exception. Yeah, that was my question. I’ve never had them worry about what my 3-oz liquids actually _were_, so long as they were under the limit and all in my allotted baggie. But if you were trying to bring it through _in addition_ to your baggie because baby food doesn’t count toward your limit…then yeah, you need to have a baby with you.