Hatta Honey Festival in Dubai opens
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00:00We are encouraging this type of business, as you know, honey, and even it's a special
00:19type, it's a local type that had been also produced here in the UAE.
00:24So we are trying to encourage this type of business, because it's actually even linked
00:30to the nature.
00:31We have like 50 booths, but even the request for the participation was more than that.
00:35It seems that people are now encouraging to go to this business.
00:38Before it was only two types of honey, but actually now we reach to seven types of honey,
00:43depends on the flower itself, so you can see the variety of the quality of the honey here.
00:50The laboratory role is to test and to make sure that the honey in the festival is fulfilling
00:56the GSO standard as a specification of the honey.
01:01We are doing different type of tests, like total sugar, the content of gelicose and fructose,
01:07the percentage of diastase enzyme, and to check that the honey quality is reaching to
01:14the level that the consumer can benefit from it.
01:16Based on the previous history, all are natural, but still we are making sure we are collecting
01:21all samples here to test.
01:23As I told you just now, anything that will not be within the scope, it will be excluded
01:27from the festival.
01:28In the UAE, we mainly have cedar, summer, we have from flowers, and we have ghaf.
01:35But they are bringing as well like the beekeepers, like they are doing a great job, and we have
01:41now algerm honey, and different types.
01:44They are trying to find, it's based on the type of tree we have in the UAE.
01:48Every year we are getting so many participation requests to participate in the exhibition.
01:53Because today we are focusing on the festival, and we are doing it in a scientific way, it
01:59gives more confidence for the consumer, so they will buy more.
02:04So everyone is benefiting from this exhibition, since we are fulfilling the scientific way
02:09of testing, and fulfilling the requirement of the end user at the end.
02:14The confidence is the key of empowering this sector.
02:19We are here visiting, and we are at the Honey Festival, and we are really excited to be
02:24here.
02:25Really impressive just looking around.
02:27They do not have in the United States anything that resembles this, so thank you for this
02:32introduction to Dubai and HADA.
02:35At home you know we have one type of honey when you go to the supermarket, it's one type
02:39or the store brand, so this is our first time really seeing all the types of honeys, all
02:45the different bees, and all the flowers as well.
02:47It's a really beautiful event, and we are very fortunate to be here, so thank you for
02:51having us, and it's really quite incredible to see everything.
02:55We send two or three types of honey to London Honey Show.
03:00We are from UAE, Emirates.
03:03We won, alhamdulillah, from the Cedar Emirati and the Summer Emirati.
03:09We won the Paris or the Platinum in the London Honey Show competition.
03:15We won also the Talha al-Bari, the competition in the London Honey Show.
03:20We have very different types.
03:22We have something very rare, and we have something normal, and we are, our farm is producing
03:27the cedar and the summer mainly, and the gulf honeys.
03:31Also now we can see here something is very rare, this is the leban, it's very important,
03:38and it has cortisol, this is new information, not available in any other honey.
03:44Cortisol in the honey.
03:46And also we have cedar and summer, this is very famous and they know, this is the gum
03:52honey, it's even from Oman also.
03:56The white honey, we are bringing from outside, but it's coming this color, but after they're
04:01preparing in the factories and mix it with this special producing, it become like this
04:07color.
04:08Also, we have fruits honey, this is like a white honey mixed with the raspberry only.
04:17We can replace it with the jam, normal jam for the breakfast, for the kids, for the schools,
04:23something like this.
04:25Also gulf, this is the national honey for UAE, you know the gulf honey, this trees is
04:32the local trees, and it's owned by the rules, and this honey has special things, it has
04:40a little bit of the protein, which any other honey they don't have it, it's only this kind
04:46of the honey of the gulf, and it's very famous, and it's very healthy to use, and very sweet.
04:55Wow, look at my hair.