IQF fruits · vegetables · legumes · herbs & spices — Egypt

From the Nile Delta to your production line.

Nile Delta Foods grows, processes and exports IQF frozen fruits and vegetables, legumes and dried herbs & spices for food manufacturers, importers and private-label brands — with certified organic and conventional programs, full traceability to the field, and a cold chain that never breaks.

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Exporting to Türkiye · USA · European Union  |  EU Organic · USDA NOP

Individually quick-frozen strawberries covered in frost
In season now Strawberry Dec – Apr
Certified organic & conventional
EU Organic · USDA NOP programs
27+ years in Egyptian agriculture
Grower-exporter, not a trader
Unbroken cold chain
IQF to −18 °C, reefer-loaded
FOB / CIF worldwide
Türkiye · USA · EU · GCC
Four product lines

One supplier for the whole ingredient list.

Frozen fruit and vegetable programs for industrial buyers, plus pulses and dried herbs & spices from the same certified farms.

Assorted IQF frozen fruitsFrozen Fruits14 products · IQF Assorted IQF frozen vegetablesFrozen Vegetables16 products · IQF Dried legumes in sacksLegumes8 products · dried Dried Egyptian herbs and spicesHerbs & Spices46 products · dried
Aerial view of farmland in the Nile Delta
Freshly picked strawberries in a farmer's hands
Rooted in the Delta

Grown where the Nile has fed the world for 5,000 years.

The Nile Delta is Egypt's most fertile land and one of the oldest continuously farmed regions on earth. Nile Delta Foods was built here — by people who farm here — to bring Delta produce to global manufacturers with the consistency, documentation and food-safety discipline industrial buyers expect.

We manage our own contract-farming programs across partner farms in the Delta and in the reclaimed lands west of Cairo, control harvest timing to the day, and process within hours of picking. That is what lets us put a season, a farm and a lot number on every carton we ship.

Contract farmingField audits, seed-to-carton traceability
Same-day processingHarvest to freezer in hours, not days
Export-ready docsCOA, phyto, CoO, health certificate
27+ yrs
of growing & exporting Egyptian produce
200+ feddans
of partner farms under contract (1 feddan ≈ 0.42 ha)
84
products across four lines
6,000t / yr
IQF export capacity
Catalogue · 84 products

Everything on this page ships in a reefer.

Select any product for its forms, calibres, harvest season and packaging. Custom cuts, private label and mixed-container loads on request.

IQF Frozen Fruits

Our flagship program is IQF strawberry — whole, sliced and diced, calibrated to your spec — backed by stone fruit, figs, berries and pomegranate arils from the same certified farms. Fruit is picked at full ripeness, processed the same day and frozen individually so it pours free-flowing from the carton.

Strawberry Frozen Fruits · IQF · −18 °C Flagship

Strawberry

Our flagship program. Egyptian winter strawberries (Festival, Fortuna, Sensation varieties) picked at full red ripeness, hulled, washed and frozen individually within hours of harvest. Deep colour, high Brix and a firm bite after thawing.

Forms
WholeSlicedDiced 10 mmCrumblePurée / block on request
Calibre / gradeWhole 15–25 · 25–35 · 35+ mm · Brix ≥ 7°
Season
JFMAMJJASOND
Harvest Nov – Apr · Peak Dec – Mar
Packaging10 kg carton + PE liner · 4 × 2.5 kg · 1 kg retail · 25 kg bulk
Applications
Jams & preservesSmoothies & juicesYoghurt & dairyBakery & pastryRetail bags
Request a quote for Strawberry Organic (EU / NOP) & conventional
Field to container

Six steps. One unbroken cold chain.

Every lot is documented at each step, so a carton can be traced back to the farm and the harvest day.

Contract farming

Seed, inputs and harvest dates agreed with partner farms; fields audited and mapped for organic and conventional programs.

FIELD AUDIT · GAP

Harvest at peak

Picked early morning at full ripeness and moved to the plant in ventilated crates the same day.

< 12 h to intake

Intake & QC

Every delivery graded on arrival: only Grade A raw material enters the line. Brix, colour, defects and foreign matter recorded per lot.

GRADE A ONLY

Wash · sort · cut

Chlorinated wash, optical sorting and calibration; cut to spec (whole, slice, dice, floret) and blanched where required.

OPTICAL SORTING

IQF freezing

Individually quick-frozen in a fluidised-bed tunnel to a −18 °C core, so pieces stay separate and cell structure is preserved.

−18 °C CORE

Pack · store · ship

Metal detection, cartoning and palletising; held at −20 °C in cold storage and loaded into pre-cooled reefers with full export documentation.

REEFER −20 °C
Quality & certifications

Specified, tested, documented.

Buyers don't purchase strawberries; they purchase a specification. Ours is written down, agreed before the season, and checked at intake and before loading — with third-party lab analysis available per lot.

≤ 2 %thaw tolerance at intake
≤ 0.5 %mould tolerance
Grade Araw material only
Certificate of AnalysisPhytosanitary certificateCertificate of OriginHealth certificatePesticide residue (MRL)MicrobiologyOrganic transaction certificate
EU OrganicRegulation (EU) 2018/848 — certified organic fruit, vegetables & herbs
USDA NOPNational Organic Program — organic certification for the US market
Food safety systemISO 22000 / HACCP-based food safety management — add your certificate here
Retail & ethical auditsBRCGS, SEDEX/SMETA, Halal, Kosher — on request
Strawberries being sorted on a stainless steel processing line
Harvest calendar

Plan your program around Egypt's seasons.

Field harvest windows for our main crops. IQF products are available year-round from cold storage; contracting during the harvest window secures the best price and calibre.

CropJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
StrawberryIQF · frozen fruit
Peach & ApricotIQF · frozen fruit
FigsIQF · frozen fruit
Pomegranatearils
Orange segmentsIQF · frozen fruit
Broccoli & CauliflowerIQF · frozen veg
Spinach & KaleIQF · frozen veg
Green PeasIQF · frozen veg
Green BeansIQF · frozen veg
Sweet CornIQF · frozen veg
Chamomile & Calenduladried herbs
Hibiscusdried herbs
Peppermint & Spearmintdried herbs · 3 cuts
Seed spicescumin · coriander · fennel · anise
Harvest windowPeak — best price & qualityCurrent month highlighted
Markets & logistics

Alexandria is a short sail from your plant.

We load from Alexandria and Damietta, on the main Mediterranean reefer lanes, and manage documentation end-to-end.

Türkiye

Mersin · Izmir · Istanbul

Transit
3–5 days by sea
Programs
IQF strawberry & fruit for processors and re-exporters
Terms
FOB Alexandria · CIF
United States

New York · Savannah · Houston

Transit
18–25 days by sea
Programs
USDA NOP organic IQF fruit & vegetables, dried herbs
Terms
FOB · CIF · DDP on request
European Union

Rotterdam · Marseille · Genoa

Transit
6–12 days by sea
Programs
EU Organic & conventional IQF, pulses, herbs & spices
Terms
FOB · CIF · CFR
40' HC reefer≈ 20–24 t IQF, 20 pallets, set-point −18 °C / −20 °C
Mixed loadsSeveral products in one container to reduce your MOQ
Lead time2–4 weeks from confirmed order in season
Private labelYour artwork, your carton, your retail bag
Next season starts now

Lock in your strawberry program before December.

Send us your specification — product, cut, calibre, packaging, volume and destination port — and you'll have a quotation with a season plan within two working days.

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Contact

Talk to the export desk.

We answer every enquiry personally — in English, Arabic or Turkish — and can send samples, specifications and organic certificates on request.

Head office103, 4th District, Hadayek October
6th of October City, Giza, Egypt
HoursSunday – Thursday, 9:00 – 17:00 (Cairo, UTC+2/+3)

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