Originally Posted by
Kamalaasaa
You’re dealing with a real phenomenon.
A couple of years ago Security at BOS did a manual search of my carry-on because I had a box of Clif Bars in it. The agent said that they can look like plastic explosives on the scanner, especially when they are stacked neatly in a box like they were.
Evidently many food items, because they are carbon-based, can resemble explosives on the scanners.
Yup. Anything that reads as organic and is of the requisite density is liable to get looked at, whether checked or carry-on.
Same sort of thing at agriculture inspection--they open bags based on organic + density. We've learned to gather everything that might draw their interest into one bag to reduce the searching if we get selected.