Among the few food items that survived were his handcrafted nut butters he uses for his artisanal frozen dessert and a $1,200 chunk of Parmesan.

Red No. 3, a synthetic food dye, gives products like candies, frosting and frozen desserts their bright, cherry-red color.

The dye is used primarily in candy, cakes, cookies, frozen desserts and frosting as well as some medicines, the agency said.

But in Australia, gelato refers to the frozen dessert of Italian origen.

Nestlé, he said, was the category captain in frozen desserts in 22 of the country’s largest 25 supermarkets.