Marmite has been tampered with over the years. it was not originally laced with sugar, as it is today. Presumably to get our kids hooked on it. Denmark has made a wise decision. Our Mate tastes more like our original marmite used to taste, before they ruined it.

Kiwi marmite would still be banned anyway as it is fortified with vitamins (B12). duh. The ban doesn't actually stipulate marmite from what i can see, just imported products fortified with vitamins hence Santarium NZ Marmite would still be banned if it was sold there.

English Marmite is available along the road at My Shop, Xianlin University District, Nanjing ...thoughtful Chinese-owned shop specialises in Occidental foods such as Flora margarine and Philadelphia cheese, while beloved Marmite flies off the shelves. Disappears so fast in fact, that I had to ORDER four 125gm jars at $9 each, with a three week wait for the Flying Boat to descend from England.Re taste, am a Kiwi but have been in China too long to remember any taste difference between Sanitarium and UK product - this will make my July trip to Edinburgh more tantalising.

Re SM #13 "Whats the point of moving to another country if all you want to do is bring the old one with you?"

I hope you are fluent in Maori and don't use any customs from England then.

Good on Denmark for standing up for what they believe in! Hope they don't sign a freetrade deal which will stop them having the right to do this.

Again a typical example of sensationalism and poor journalism. What actually happened is that the company importing Marmite into Denmark voluntary withdrew the product as they had not applied for an exemption to the Danish food standards rules. The product has NOT been banned. Of course it would be too much work for Kiwi journalists to find that out...

Follow the money, always follow the money. Some competitor has got to the ear of a politician (who they probably finance in one way or another) and suggested they ban it ---orrrrrr maybe next years contribution to the political party won't be as generous as last time.

i guess ben and nick will not be going to denmark for their holidays then, but then i guess the danes will not miss those two "it's from the motherland, it must be the best" tourists who probably still believe the myth about how good english fish and chips are and will not eat local food!

Just for the record Marmite is not banned in Denmark. New rules coming into play require products enriched with vitamins to get an approval similar to "declaring it safe for human consumption". Hence just a matter of getting an import approval. The company importing Marmite had decided to withdraw the product while getting the paper-work in order. So, just another example of journalists being too caught up in playing with their iphones, ipads and ipods to actually do their job - followed by other just "copy'ing and past'ing" what others printed.

Our Mate is FAR better than any of the NZ stuff. But I still enjoy the Marmite we have here

@ben #19 I got some in catania, sicily in 2005