Goli Pop Soda in the United Arab Emirates.
For the Emirates' large Indian community, goli soda is a memory from home. For everyone else it is something new: a soda you open by pressing a marble.
- 220 mlin every bottle
- 6 gof added fibre
- 6flavours
On the shelf
What you will find.
A prebiotic soda in a marble-sealed glass bottle: you open it by pressing the marble, and it drops with a pop. Every 220 ml bottle holds 6 g of fibre, is low in sugar and is sweetened with monk fruit / stevia.
Three doors
How to get it in the United Arab Emirates.
You want a bottle
It is sold in local shops and at wholesalers. Shelves change faster than web pages, so write to us with your city and we will tell you what we know.
You run a shop, café or restaurant
It reaches shops through the importer or wholesaler for your country. Write with your town and the kind of business you run, and the export team points you to the right one.
You import or distribute
Ask what is open in the United Arab Emirates. The Pop Partner passport takes eight short steps: your business, your channels, your volumes and the flavours you want.
The rules here
What the United Arab Emirates asks of a soda.
A summary for buyers, checked on 10 October 2026. It is not legal advice: your own importer or adviser has the last word.
Excise by sugar, since 1 January 2026
A sweetened drink with less than 5 g of sugar per 100 ml pays no excise. From 5 g it pays 0.79 dirhams a litre, and from 8 g, 1.09 dirhams. The step is decided by the product's certified sugar content: Goli Pop's laboratory report of June 2026 shows less than 2 g of total sugar in 100 ml.
Gulf News: the UAE's excise by sugar contentThe label is in Arabic
Gulf standards ask for the label of a packaged food in Arabic. The export team works through a market's label requirements with the importer before the first order.
On the recordThe Government of India's release of 23 March 2025 reports steady supply to Lulu Hypermarket, one of the Gulf's largest retail chains. Government of India, Press Information Bureau, release 2114131
Read on
More for the United Arab Emirates.
- The trade room
- The Pop Desk: importing it
- The Gulf’s sugar tax of 2026
- What is a prebiotic soda?
- Pop Proof
- Oceania
- Australia