Health Food

Friday, September 28, 2012

how popular are organically grown foods and traditional "health food" stores in Egypt?

Egypt - 8 Answers
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1 :
I would have to say extremely unpopular. Although I wouldn't be surprised if you found a boutique health food store somewhere in Cairo. Or if you're asking for business opportunity purposes then I would have to say that you would be investing a lot of money for a venture that has no future prospects in a country where the bulk of the population buy their groceries from street markets simply because everything else is un-affordable. I guess the rest of the population buy their groceries from "supermarkets" which are more like 7/11's than the Coles and Safeway supermarket's we have in Western countries.
2 :
its not popular,maybe among high class people it is as a matter of showing off or something, but believe me most Egyptians don't give a damn whether this tomatoes,potatoes,chicken...etc are organic or not,they just thank God that they are able to buy them.. Sad but true..
3 :
It is quite popular, at least in every large supermarket you will find an Organic Food section. Worth mentioning that one of the largest companies in planting and distributing organic food world wide is an Egyptian- German one and in Egypt all its products , especially herbal are available in all Supermarkets and Pharmacies (for those used in treatment) . So it is available but only for those who can afford them.
4 :
Not popular though you can find them wherever you get into metro supermarkets (available in cairo alex,sharm el sheikh,hurghada) but not in upper egypt . u can get them in carrefour superstores (cairo,alex) and in spinneys superstores(one branch in cairo) but they are available and i think they are affordable too(Triple the price of non organic foods approx) so if u give some care about paying more for some healthy food then i think u wont find their prices to be high especially when u know that food prices in egypt are quite moderate and cheap when it comes to some goods like vegetables and fruites but still u can find organic tea,peppermint,green tea,hibiscus packs etc for hot drinks in most stores but when it comes to popularity?no coz egyptians are poor and most of them cant afford paying for non organic food and egyptians dont care that much about their meal ingredients and u can find some of the worst nutritional habits practiced by egyptians like when some fat guy goes to the table and his mother tells him to eat more and say "may god keep u for ur youth-hood" which is litteraly the same as egyptians say "allah ykhalek le shababak" and when it comes to their mind that that guy must eat to be well and they dont give a damn about problems of obesity and overweight and these beliefs are not practiced by poor egyptians mostly it's more practiced in classy and rich families it's just a tradition,though on the other hand some egyptians care about their health and about their food components.it's just a matter of awarness. Regards
5 :
Organic food have a bigger carbon print! Also, alot of egyptians can hardly afford everyday bread, let alone organic food!
6 :
not much.
7 :
It is populated enough. There is health food in every town in Egypt. But the problem is not if they are a lot the problem is if they buy it and eat it.
8 :
They are quite popular, but very expensive