Frozen Mixed Vegetables Supplier Saudi Arabia — IQF Export from Egypt
SFDA-ready cartons. Cold-chain that does not break. Saber paperwork that clears at first inspection.
Eurovan supplies IQF mixed vegetables from Egyptian harvests to Saudi importers, HoReCa groups and private-label brands. Bulk 10kg cartons or retail polybags, Damietta to Jeddah Islamic Port or Dammam, with halal, ISO 22000 and full GSO-compliant labelling on every shipment.
Cairo → Damietta → Jeddah · Cold-chain DAP 14-21 days
- Why Saudi importers source IQF mixed veg from Egypt
- Eurovan’s IQF mixed veg quality system
- Order, dispatch and SFDA paperwork
- Specifications, packing and HS codes
- Live Saudi orders and quote angles
- Cold-chain timeline Damietta → Jeddah
- How Saudi buyers serve and re-pack
- Why Eurovan vs other Egyptian exporters
- Saudi importer FAQ
- Get your DAP Jeddah quote
Why frozen mixed vegetables demand from Saudi Arabia keeps growing
Saudi households shifted to convenience cooking faster than the supermarket shelves could keep up. Frozen mixed veg sits at the centre of that shift — and Egyptian IQF wins on freight days, not just on price.
- Saudi frozen vegetable imports grew double-digits across 2023-2025; mixed veg is the second-fastest line after fries.
- Egypt is the closest IQF-grade origin to Jeddah — roughly 6 sailing days versus 18-22 days from Asia.
- Eurovan ships bulk 10kg cartons and retail polybags with full SABER + halal documentation.
- MOQ starts at one 40ft reefer; LCL works when you combine with another Eurovan SKU.
- Lead time DAP Jeddah: 14-21 days. DAP Dammam: 18-24 days.
An importer in Riyadh asked us last quarter why Egyptian frozen mixed veg keeps undercutting Asian containers on landed cost. The honest answer is freight days. From Damietta to Jeddah Islamic Port, a reefer sails in roughly six days; from a Chinese east-coast port, the same container takes three weeks and crosses two transhipment hubs. That single fact reshapes the spreadsheet — power consumption, demurrage exposure, capital tied up in inventory — and it’s why Eurovan’s frozen vegetables programme has tilted hard toward GCC clients since 2023.
The category itself is also expanding. Saudi household income on packaged frozen food has climbed steadily, and modern-trade chains like Lulu, Carrefour, Panda and Tamimi now treat frozen mixed veg as a year-round staple rather than a Ramadan promotional line. HoReCa is the second engine: hotel chains in Jeddah, Mecca and Riyadh standardise their veg base across kebsa garnish, soup mise-en-place and breakfast sides — and they want a single supplier who can ship 4-mix and 5-mix on the same B/L.
“From Damietta to Jeddah, a reefer sails in roughly six days. From a Chinese east-coast port, the same container takes three weeks. That single fact reshapes the spreadsheet.”
For private-label brands the maths is even tighter. A Saudi retailer launching its own frozen line wants 8,000 to 15,000 cartons per SKU on the first run; Egyptian IQF tunnels can absorb that volume inside a 35-day production window, which is faster than what most European co-packers will quote. Add halal-by-default and SFDA-compliant Arabic labelling and the cost-per-pack lands well under the imported European alternative — without sacrificing the IQF integrity that serious frozen-food buyers insist on.
And then there is sourcing depth. Egypt grows peas, carrots, green beans, sweet corn and cauliflower commercially across the Nile Delta and Beni Suef belt. Eurovan doesn’t depend on a single farm — we contract across multiple growing regions so a bad rain week in Damietta does not delay a Saudi container leaving on Wednesday. That redundancy is what turns a one-off shipment into a programme.
Eurovan’s IQF mixed vegetables quality system, explained
Quality on a Saudi-bound reefer is a chain — not a stamp. Drop one link and the whole spec collapses by week three. Here’s how we hold it.
Saudi importers don’t lose sleep over the price line on the proforma — they lose sleep over what arrives at the cold store. A bag of mixed veg that clumps, drips on thaw, or shows freezer burn under the carrot dice is a guaranteed customer-service problem at Lulu’s receiving dock. So before we talk packaging or pricing with a new Saudi buyer, we walk them through the four stages where IQF integrity is actually won or lost.
Harvest within 4 hours of cut
Peas and beans lose sugar by the hour after harvest. Eurovan’s contracted farms in the Nile Delta deliver to the IQF tunnel within four hours of cutting, which is the gap that protects the sweetness Saudi consumers expect when they open a 1kg retail bag.
Calibrated blanch + chill
Each vegetable runs its own blanch curve — 90 seconds for peas, 4 minutes for green beans, 6 for cauliflower florets. Then immediate ice-water shock before the IQF tunnel. Skip this step and you get colour drift and mushy texture by month three of frozen storage.
-35°C tunnel, 12 minute pass
True individual quick freezing means each pea, each carrot dice, each bean tip locks separately. Our tunnel partners run -35°C with a 12-minute pass, which is what produces the “free-flow” texture Saudi retailers test on receipt by shaking a sample bag.
Volumetric blend, not mass
A 4-mix labeled 25/25/25/25 should taste that way. We blend by volumetric ratio under temperature-controlled conditions — not by weight, which silently shifts the carrot fraction up and the corn fraction down because of density differences.
Multi-layer barrier film
Retail polybags use a multi-layer barrier film with EVOH layer, sealed with date-printed thermal seal. Bulk 10kg goes into food-grade polyliner inside double-corrugated cartons rated for -25°C reefer compression — no soft-side cartons that collapse in stack.
-22°C from tunnel to truck
Production cold store, port pre-loading staging, reefer container, and the Saudi-side cold truck all maintain -22°C ± 2°C. Temperature data loggers travel inside the container so Saudi customs and the buyer can both verify the curve on arrival.
That six-stage chain is why our bulk frozen vegetables programme has roughly a 99.4% first-pass acceptance rate at GCC port inspections in 2025. The complaints we do get tend to be about labelling text on retail SKUs, not about product condition — and labelling we fix in the next print run.
Need a DAP Jeddah quote on IQF mixed vegetables?
Send us your mix ratio and target volume — we’ll come back inside one business day with a binding quotation, full spec sheet, and the Saber documentation list for your customs broker.
Order, dispatch and SFDA-ready paperwork
Five steps from your first WhatsApp message to a sealed reefer arriving at your Saudi cold store. No mystery, no customs surprises.
Specify the mix and packing
Send us the desired ratio (4-mix, 5-mix, soup-cut), pack size (10kg bulk carton or 400g/1kg retail), target carton volume, and the Saudi destination — Jeddah Islamic Port or King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam. WhatsApp works; so does email. We don’t need a formal RFQ template to start.
Receive a binding quote within 24-72 hours
You get a fully costed DAP quotation with the Incoterm spelled out, lead time committed, certificates listed, and a small process video of our packing line if you’ve never seen Egyptian IQF before. Pricing is held for 14 days from issue.
Sign the proforma, settle 30% deposit
Countersign the PI and wire 30% deposit by SWIFT, or open an LC at sight. Balance is settled against shipping documents — same model that works for our long-running buyers in Iraq, Jordan and the UAE.
Production runs, Saber + halal docs issued
Production takes 14-25 days depending on volume and SKU mix. In parallel, our compliance team uploads to the Saudi Saber platform, secures the SABER conformity certificate, the halal certificate from a recognized Egyptian Islamic body, the health certificate from the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture, and the EUR.1 / COO from the Cairo Chamber of Commerce.
Sail, clear customs, deliver DAP
Container loads at Damietta, sails via the Red Sea, and arrives Jeddah in roughly six days at sea. Customs clearance averages 3-5 working days when the Saber file is clean. Final inland trucking to your cold store finishes the cycle — total door-to-door 14-21 days for Jeddah, 18-24 for Dammam.
Specifications, packing and HS codes for Saudi clearance
The two reference tables your customs broker actually uses. Print them, paste them into your purchase order, save them for the next file.
| Product type | IQF Mixed Vegetables |
| Default mix | 4-mix · peas / carrot / corn / beans |
| Premium mix | 5-mix + cauliflower |
| Cut size | 8-12 mm dice |
| Bulk carton | 10kg net · double-wall |
| Retail polybag | 400g · 1kg · printed |
| Cartons / 40ft RF | 2,400 cartons (10kg) |
| Storage temp | -18°C minimum · -22°C ideal |
| Shelf life | 24 months from production |
| Production lead | 14-25 days |
| HS Code (mixed) | 0710.90.00 |
| HS Code (peas) | 0710.21.00 |
| HS Code (beans) | 0710.22.00 |
| Country of origin | Egypt (EG) |
| SABER cert | Required · Eurovan files |
| Halal cert | Issued per shipment |
| Health cert | Egyptian Min. Agriculture |
| Phytosanitary | Issued at Damietta port |
| Labelling | Arabic + English, GSO 9 |
| Incoterms | FOB · CIF · DAP · EXW |
The two tables above cover roughly 90% of what a Saudi customs broker will ask for on first sight of the file. The remaining 10% — Arabic ingredient list wording, importer Saudi address block on the retail bag, batch traceability numbering — gets fine-tuned in the artwork PDF before plates go to print. For a comparison of how this same paperwork stack works for other GCC destinations, see our GCC export guide.
Live Saudi orders & quote angles you can copy
Real shipments and live quote requests we’ve handled this year. Pick the one closest to your business — tap the link to ask for similar pricing.
2,400 cartons IQF 4-mix 10kg — DAP Jeddah Port
- Mix Peas/Carrot/Corn/Beans
- Container 1× 40ft RF
- Lead 16 days
- Incoterm DAP
HoReCa group · 5-mix 10kg, monthly recurring
- Volume 1,800 cartons / month
- Pack 10kg cauliflower mix
- Lead 14 days repeat
- Incoterm DAP Riyadh DC
Private label · 8,000 retail bags 1kg
- SKU Saudi-brand mixed veg 1kg
- Run 8,000 cartons (12×1kg)
- Lead 40 days first run
- Incoterm DAP Dammam
Hotel chain · soup-cut mix 10kg
- Cut Diced root veg, soup-grade
- Volume 1,200 cartons / quarter
- Lead 18 days
- Incoterm DAP Mecca
Wholesaler · 4-mix 400g retail polybag
- Pack 400g × 24 / carton
- Volume 1,200 cartons trial
- Lead 21 days
- Label Arabic + English GSO
Catering · IQF green peas + carrots only
- SKU Peas & carrots 50/50
- Volume 1,500 cartons 10kg
- Lead 15 days
- Incoterm DAP Buraidah
Distributor · combo container with okra + mix
- Combo Mixed veg + okra LCL
- Volume 1,400 ctn mix · 800 ctn okra
- Lead 20 days
- Incoterm DAP Madinah
Retail group · 1kg mixed veg branded line
- Run 14,000 cartons (12×1kg)
- Brand Retailer private label
- Lead 45 days
- Incoterm DAP Khobar DC
Importer · trial 5-mix container DAP
- SKU 5-mix 10kg trial
- Volume 1× 40ft RF
- Lead 17 days
- Incoterm DAP Tabuk
Frozen line + okra + spinach combo
- Combo Mix + okra + spinach
- Volume 2,200 ctn split SKU
- Lead 22 days
- Incoterm DAP Hail DC
Re-packer · bulk 10kg, in-country re-bagging
- Pack 10kg unprinted polyliner
- Volume 2,400 cartons / 40ft
- Lead 16 days
- Incoterm DAP Abha
Industrial catering · monthly 4-mix programme
- Volume 2,000 cartons / month
- Pack 10kg industrial bulk
- Lead 15 days repeat
- Incoterm DAP Jubail
Cold-chain timeline Damietta → Jeddah / Dammam
A real shipping calendar for a 40ft reefer of frozen mixed vegetables. The dates below are not promises — they are what we measured across 28 Saudi-bound containers in 2025.
Talk to a real exporter, not another middleman
Eurovan ships from our own contracted IQF facility — no commission layer between you and the cold store. That’s how we hold a 24-72h quote turnaround and a 99% port-clearance rate across the GCC.
How Saudi buyers serve and re-pack mixed vegetables
Same SKU, four very different businesses. Knowing which lane you’re in changes the spec — pack size, mix ratio, even the cut size — before we quote.
Modern-trade retail
Lulu, Carrefour, Panda and Tamimi take the 1kg printed retail polybag, branded with the importer’s house label. Mix ratio leans 30/30/20/20 toward peas and carrots because that’s what end-consumers actually cook for kebsa and rice dishes. Margin lives in shelf-life consistency, not in the cheapest pea-to-corn ratio.
HoReCa & hotel chains
Hotels in Mecca, Madinah and Jeddah want 10kg bulk cartons with a clean cauliflower-inclusive 5-mix. Receiving teams shake the bag at the dock to check the IQF free-flow texture; clumped product comes back. Repeat orders are quarterly, so we hold inventory of their preferred ratio in our cold store.
Industrial catering
Aramco contractors, hospital catering, military canteens — they buy by the container in 10kg bulk industrial liners. Mix is usually a basic 4-mix without cauliflower, and they prioritize predictable monthly delivery over private-label artwork. We’ve shipped this lane to GCC catering customers alongside frozen molokhia and spinach.
Re-packers & private label
In-country re-packers buy 10kg bulk in unprinted poly-liner, then re-bag into Saudi-branded retail polybags using their own SFDA-registered facility. We supply the bulk product plus a Certificate of Analysis per batch so their re-bag traceability stays clean. First runs start at 2,400 cartons.
Why Eurovan vs other Egyptian exporters into Saudi Arabia
Egypt has dozens of frozen vegetable exporters. A handful actually file Saber properly, hold spec under a Jeddah summer arrival, and answer the phone after the deposit clears.
One quote, one signature, one contact
You deal with a senior account manager from quote through DAP delivery. No handover after deposit, no “let me check with shipping” ping-pong. Same person you WhatsApped on Monday is the person who emails the B/L copy on Friday.
SABER filing in-house
We don’t outsource Saudi conformity. Our compliance team files SABER directly, which is why our average certificate issuance is 4 days versus the 9-12 days some Egyptian exporters quote when they sub-contract the work.
Multi-region farm contracts
Peas from the Delta, carrots from Beni Suef, beans from Sharqia. One bad weather week in any region does not delay a Saudi container leaving Wednesday. That redundancy is invisible in the quote — but it’s the reason we hit lead times in summer when most exporters slip by 7-10 days.
12+ years on the GCC corridor
We started exporting FMCG and frozen lines into Dubai in 2013 and added Saudi as a structured market in 2018. The institutional memory shows up in tiny things — the right Arabic phrasing on a label, the customs broker who returns calls, the carrier who actually has reefer slots.
Multi-product container option
Need mixed veg plus frozen strawberry, plus okra in one container? We consolidate across our frozen catalogue — your reefer pays for itself faster, and you simplify your import paperwork into a single consignee file.
Transparent on what we don’t do
We don’t sell bottom-of-market product. We don’t promise lead times we haven’t measured. And we don’t quote “best price guaranteed” theatre — we quote the price that holds for 14 days, lets us run the production properly, and arrives at your gate the way the spec promised.
If you want a deeper view of the catalogue, our global frozen mixed vegetables programme shows what else moves on the same lanes — and the company background page covers the certifications and the export track record in more detail.
Saudi importer FAQ — straight answers
Seven questions Saudi buyers actually ask before they sign the proforma. The same answers we give on a sales call, written down so your team can share them.
What is the minimum order for frozen mixed vegetables to Saudi Arabia?+
How long does shipping from Egypt to Jeddah take?+
Do you supply SFDA-compliant labelling?+
Which mixes are most popular for Saudi importers?+
What documents do you provide for clearance at Jeddah port?+
Can you private-label mixed vegetables for our Saudi brand?+
Are your mixed vegetables halal certified?+
Eurovan Trading is an Egyptian exporter of IQF frozen mixed vegetables to Saudi Arabia, supplying 4-mix and 5-mix recipes in 10kg bulk cartons or 400g/1kg retail polybags. Shipments depart Damietta for Jeddah Islamic Port or Dammam under DAP terms, with SABER conformity, halal, ISO 22000 and HACCP certificates. Door-to-door lead time is 14-21 days for Jeddah and 18-24 days for Dammam. Standard MOQ is one 40ft reefer; private-label runs start at 8,000 cartons per SKU.
تصدير الخضروات المجمدة من مصر إلى السعودية
شريكك المصري لتوريد الخضروات المشكلة المجمدة بنظام IQF · تعبئة جملة وتجزئة · شحن مبرد إلى جدة والدمام · مع كل وثائق سابر والهيئة العامة للغذاء والدواء.
تعمل يوروفان تريدنج من القاهرة كأحد أكبر موردي الخضروات المجمدة من مصر إلى السوق السعودي، مع خبرة تتجاوز اثني عشر عامًا في تصدير المنتجات الغذائية المجمدة عبر ميناء دمياط ومنه إلى ميناء جدة الإسلامي وميناء الملك عبد العزيز بالدمام. نوفر خلطات الخضروات المجمدة بنظام التجميد الفردي السريع IQF بمواصفات مطابقة لمتطلبات الهيئة السعودية للغذاء والدواء، سواء بتعبئة الجملة عيار عشرة كيلو كرتون أو بتعبئة التجزئة من أربعمائة جرام إلى كيلوجرام للأكياس البلاستيكية الموجهة لرفوف السوبر ماركت السعودي.
تشمل خلطاتنا الأساسية الخلطة الرباعية (بازلاء، جزر، ذرة، فاصولياء خضراء) والخلطة الخماسية التي تضيف القرنبيط، إضافة إلى خلطات مخصصة حسب طلب المستورد. كل شحنة تخرج بشهادة منشأ مصرية، وشهادة صحية من وزارة الزراعة المصرية، وشهادة حلال، وشهادة المطابقة سابر مرفوعة على منصة سابر السعودية قبل وصول الحاوية. زمن التوريد من باب المصنع في دمياط إلى مستودع المستورد في جدة يتراوح بين أربعة عشر وواحد وعشرين يومًا تحت شروط DAP، ومن ثمانية عشر إلى أربعة وعشرين يومًا للدمام.
للحصول على عرض سعر رسمي بالدولار الأمريكي يشمل سعر الكرتون فوب دمياط أو DAP جدة، تواصل معنا عبر واتساب أو البريد الإلكتروني خلال ساعات العمل المصرية. نرد في نفس يوم العمل غالبًا، ونرسل عرض سعر مفصل بمدة صلاحية أربعة عشر يومًا تتضمن المواصفات الكاملة، وخطة التعبئة، وزمن الإنتاج، وقائمة الوثائق المرفقة مع الشحنة. للمستوردين الجدد، نقدم أيضًا نموذج فاتورة مبدئية للبنك ونساعد في ترتيب اعتماد مستندي إذا لزم الأمر.
للمزيد من المعلومات بالعربية يمكنك زيارة موقعنا باللغة العربية ومراجعة صفحات السوق السعودي الأخرى ضمن كتالوجنا.
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Frozen mixed vegetables — Saudi Arabia
Tell us your port, target volume, and packing preference. We’ll come back with a proper proforma the same business day, in English or Arabic.
- Pricing in USD, FOB Damietta or DAP your port
- 14-day price validity on quotes
- SABER, halal, ISO 22000 included
- Free pre-shipment artwork sign-off for retail packs
- Direct line — no middlemen, no resellers