Middle East canned food market is boosting by 2025

The Middle East canned food market recorded significant growth from the past few years due to changing customer lifestyle and rising disposable income. Moreover, surging demand for canned foul moudames and baked beans in the countries including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain is further supporting the Middle East market to grow.

The government initiatives such as offering daycare centers, flexible time arrangements at work units and maternity leave pay, etc. are inspiring women of the Middle East for work participation. To eliminate the burden of cooking on weekdays, working women start preferring canned food in the region. Therefore, is projected the Middle East canned food market is boosting by 2025.

Fruits: Canned fruits have a large shelf life in comparison to fresh fruits. Canned packaging includes the usage of heating and storing methods in airtight containers, this helps to abolish the microorganism that causes food decay which in turn the shelf life of fruits is rising. Therefore, the canned fruits segment is increasing since 2015.

The rising demand for portable packaging, surging number of nuclear families, and growing awareness about canned fruits are supposed to augment its demand over the next 5 years.

The canned fruits are also available for babies in the Middle East region. The growing concern among parents regarding provide nutritious and healthy food, inconvenience, and less availability of fresh fruits is increasing the demand for canned fruits for babies from the past few years.

UAE: UAE is one of the leading emirates that driving the Middle East canned food market since 2015. The factors that drive the UAE market are mentioned below:

The customer base of canned food is surging in Dubai & Abu Dhabi due to the rising number of expatriates from Europe and Asian countries. According to the Government of Dubai, 92% of population is living in Dubai are non-emirates.

The retailers bring products easily accessible for customers, the availability of a huge number of retailers in Dubai and Abu Dhabi region is further supporting the UAE canned food market to augment since 2015.

The increasing demand for convenient food due to customers' busy lifestyles and propelling trend of canned meat in UAE is also boosting the UAE canned food market.