Fresh Food in the United Arab Emirates

Fresh food sales continued to see strong and steady growth in total volume terms in 2025, supported by a growing focus on healthy living, traceable ingredients, and an increase in tourism. While supply challenges remain, the United Arab Emirates is investing in new technology, local production, and trade agreements in order to meet demand and increase its levels of self-sufficiency.

This report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market at a national level. It provides the latest retail sales data in volume terms 2020-2025, allowing you to identify the sectors driving growth. It offers strategic analysis of key factors influencing the market - be they new product developments, consumption patterns and distribution data. Forecasts to 2030 illustrate how the market is set to change.

Product coverage: Eggs, Fish and Seafood, Fruits, Meat, Nuts, Pulses, Starchy Roots, Sugar and Sweeteners, Vegetables.

Data coverage: market sizes (historic and forecasts), company shares, brand shares and distribution data.

Why buy this report?

• Get a detailed picture of the Fresh Food market;
• Pinpoint growth sectors and identify factors driving change;
• Understand the competitive environment, the market’s major players and leading brands;
• Use five-year forecasts to assess how the market is predicted to develop.