Category Vegetables

The sweet potato a buyer wants is defined by flesh colour and type: the sweet, moist orange flesh that dominates Western retail, a drier white flesh for certain markets, or a purple-skinned specialty. Egypt grows across the range, with the…

Sweet potato has the most distinctive cold chain of any root export: it must first be cured warm, then stored warm — never refrigerated cold. Treat it like a potato and chill it, and it suffers internal breakdown and off-flavours.…

The “best” Egyptian sweet potato exporter is, above all, the one that cures and stores correctly — because sweet potato lives or dies on post-harvest handling. A beautiful field crop badly cured or wrongly chilled arrives with internal breakdown; a…

Egypt is a major winter supplier of fresh peppers — glossy, blocky sweet bell peppers (capsicum) in green, red, yellow and orange, plus chili and pointed types — reaching the EU, UK, Russia and the Gulf when European production has…

Egypt is one of Europe’s key winter suppliers of fresh green beans — the slim, deep-green fine beans (haricots verts) that fill EU and UK shelves when local production has stopped. Backed by a warm winter climate and a large…

With green beans, the whole trade runs on one measurement: pod width. A slender extra-fine haricot vert and a chunky bobby bean are the same crop graded differently, and that grade decides the market and the price. This guide breaks…

Green beans are among the most perishable vegetables Egypt exports, and they come with a twist: they are chilling-sensitive, so storing them too cold causes pitting and rusty spots. The window between ‘cold enough’ and ‘too cold’ is narrow, which…

The “best” Egyptian green beans exporter depends on what you need: premium fresh fine beans for UK retail demand a very different operation from frozen IQF beans for a processor — and with beans, residue discipline matters more than almost…

Egypt is one of the world’s larger garlic producers and a competitive exporter, known for strong, pungent bulbs with good storage life. From large white export garlic to the traditional purple-tinged Balady, and from fresh cured bulbs to peeled cloves…

The “best” Egyptian garlic exporter depends on what you need: large white bulbs for retail, pungent Balady, or dehydrated garlic for a food factory are different propositions. Instead of ranking companies, this guide gives you the criteria that separate a…