{"id":328476,"date":"2023-04-20T17:20:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T20:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/sauditas-importam-37-mil-toneladas-de-cacau\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T17:26:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T20:26:26","slug":"saudi-arabia-imported-37000-tonnes-of-cocoa-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/saudi-arabia-imported-37000-tonnes-of-cocoa-in-q1\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia imported 37,000 tonnes of cocoa in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 <strong>Saudi Arabia<\/strong> imported 37,000 tonnes of <strong>cocoa<\/strong> in the first quarter of this year and could quickly surpass total purchases throughout 2022, according to information released by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2290161\/business-economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arab News<\/a> website based on official data.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Arab country imported over 127,000 tonnes of cocoa, meaning Saudi Arabia already took in over a third of that total in the first three months of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>According to the story, consumption had a considerable boost this year for <strong>Ramadan<\/strong>, the holy month of Islam, and <strong>Eid al-Fitr<\/strong>, the celebration of the closing of that period.<\/p>\n<p>During Ramadan, Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset but have collective and hearty meals after the sun goes down, increasing food consumption.<\/p>\n<p>In Saudi Arabia, stores and supermarkets offer different types of <strong>sweets and chocolates<\/strong>, imported or produced locally. On Eid, discounts are often announced.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi sweets and chocolates segment is expected to generate USD 5 billion in revenue in 2023 and grow by 3.25% over the previous year, according to Statista. The average consumption per person is estimated to reach 19 kilos a year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by El\u00fasio Brasileiro<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-328470\">\u00a9Daniel Zuchnik\/Getty Images\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia bought almost a third of the 2022 total in this year&#8217;s first quarter. Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr boosted demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":328470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[41107,37075,41108,27160,40831,18091,41113,41114,41112,41109,41110,41111],"class_list":{"0":"post-328476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-opportunities","8":"tag-arabia-saudita-chocolates-en","9":"tag-cacau-en","10":"tag-cacau-arabia-saudita-en","11":"tag-chocolates-en","12":"tag-chocolates-en-2","13":"tag-cocoa","14":"tag-cocoa-consumption","15":"tag-cocoa-export","16":"tag-cocoa-saudi-arabia","17":"tag-consumo-de-cacau-en","18":"tag-exportacao-de-cacau-en","19":"tag-saudi-arabia-chocolates"},"wps_subtitle":"Saudi Arabia bought almost a third of the 2022 total in this year's first quarter. Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr boosted demand.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}