{"id":266706,"date":"2020-01-29T16:47:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T19:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=266706"},"modified":"2020-01-30T15:32:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T18:32:30","slug":"natural-products-to-be-a-trend-in-gulfood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/natural-products-to-be-a-trend-in-gulfood\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural products to be a trend in Gulfood"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Gulfood 2020 is likely to see increasingly more natural products from Brazil, with a larger Brazilianness and sustainability appeal, reports Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil) foreign business analyst M\u00f4nica Ramos, who has overseen the Brazilian pavilion at the Middle East\u2019s largest food and beverage show for six years<\/a>. The next Gulfood will take place from February 16-20 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last few years of the fair have shown a change in exhibited products; we already have coffee, beef and poultry as well established products in both the event and these markets \u2013 in fact, it\u2019s always hard to get stands for these industries. This year, we\u2019ll have a strong presence of a\u00e7a\u00ed and grains, and out of the companies going for the first time, I\u2019ve seen more natural products,\u201d Ramos told ANBA during the \u201cFood and Beverage Exports to the Gulf Countries\u201d seminar, which took place this Wednesday (29) morning in the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/a> <\/strong>headquarters in S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n

Brazilian food and beverage companies interested in exporting or that already export to the Middle East and North Africa region were invited as well as Gulfood participants. This year, the show will feature 110 Brazilian companies, including those that will be featured in Arab Chamber stand; those taken by Apex-Brasil in the National, Grains, Beverage, Poultry, and Beef \u2013 the last two are organized in partnership with Brazilian Animal Protein Association (ABPA<\/a>) and Brazilian Beef Exporters Association (Abiec<\/a>), respectively.<\/p>\n

The Arab Chamber seminar was attended by around 120 people, including representations of food trading companies as well as manufacturers of beef, eggs, a\u00e7a\u00ed, honey, fruits, orange and grape juice, cookies, grains and spices, ice machines and other foodstuffs.<\/p>\n

A novelty in Gulfood 2020 is that the show has created a new separate event for candies, cookies, sweets and chocolates. \u201cAll these products will migrate into Yummex<\/a> \u2013 a candy show to run in November. But we had a few companies that had already registered and bought tickets, so around ten candy companies were approved and will participate in our pavilion, but from 2021 on there\u2019ll be no more candies in Gulfood,\u201d Ramos said.<\/p>\n

Antonio Lopes, a business analyst at Apex-Brasil Office for MENA in Dubai, talked about distribution channels, consumer profiling, and food and beverage trends in the Gulf and pointed out that tendency toward a more healthy consumption due to the high obesity rates in the region, the tax on sweetened beverages<\/a> and energy drinks in the UAE, and other information.<\/p>\n