FOOD INDUSTRY AND THE UAE CUISINE

REPORT

The reason why we choose this topic is because it comes to our interest
that after the petroleum and tourism industry it’s the food industry that’s
dominating with a huge margin with 12.6billion Dirham the last
financial year 2016-2017. The food and beverages industry has a 11%
growth rate in the past 3 years because of which it is projected that this
industry will grow up to 13.2 billion dirham this financial that is 2017-
2018 and we can mostly see this growth because of the following 3
reasons which are;
1) Increase in population
2) Growth in the increase of tourism inflow
3) Increase in the number of hotels
UAE food industry makes up about 57% of the total volume of
investments.
Emirati cuisine is a blend of many Middle Eastern and Asian cuisines.
UAE Cuisine attract travelers with its unique and exotic taste
Given the UAE’s location, along the path of both the silk and spice
roads, it is not surprising that this influenced its culinary palate. Many
of the traditional dishes have meat, dairy, cereals, wheat and ghee in
them. Popular spices include turmeric, saffron, cardamom, cinnamon,
pepper and salt, as well as ingredients from desert plants, such as the
leaves of the Al Ghaf tree. In the UAE cuisine, there is always some
rice, some meat or chicken, some type of bread and then we have
something very sweet: pastries dipped with date syrup,” Umm Ahmed
says. “We used camel’s milk as well as goat’s milk for many of our
dishes before”.
We learned many things in this project like how the food and the
other industries works and how are they valued. We also learned the
various preferences of different families and individual living in the
UAE, doing an analysis on this project and interviewing was a
challenge which helps us get a good idea of the advantages and the
disadvantages of this particular industry.