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Dates, interesting facts

Dates are a kind of palm trees, height in two floors, which native land is Mesopotamia where they are considered as an ancient cultural plant.

Today dates grow in subtropical regions of the North Africa, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Israel, California, Mexico, Australia and Southern Africa, and two countries named last, do not represent interest for Europe. Trees grow to 25 m in height, start to fructify at the age of 8-10 years, and a top yield reach aged after 30 years which then goes down at achievement of 100-year-old age. One tree brings to 100 kg of fruit on 10-20 trees. World production makes more than 2 million tons from which 300000-500000 collect in Australia, Iran and Egypt. Various regions make different grades. Deglet Nour or muscat dates have very soft pulp, big on the size, very sweet and are on sale mainly with stones.The countries-supliers: Algeria, Tunis, Egypt, Israel and California; Halovi, Siars, Hadravi, Zahdi have dense pulp, pleasant on taste and are on sale without stones. The countries-suppliers: Iran, Iraq, Pakistan. It is necessary to mention still such grades as: Assel, Kabra from Pakistan which have also dense pulp, less sweet, rather small on the size and are on sale without stones. After harvesting dates dry on the sun, wash, take out stones (manually), sort, process gas and pack. In the fruits, going on sale dry, the high percent of sugar, fat oils, proteins and microelements contains. High caloric content of dates has deserved it a nickname some "desert bread". Fruits of a date palm tree are the basic food in many areas of tropics and deserts, are irreplaceable at physical overfatigue and an exhaustion. In a modern diet dates are used for preparation of compotes, fruit salads, ?????, confectionery products and certainly are a magnificent dessert. Because of the high maintenance capossodium, dates recommend to use at cardiovascular diseases.

Nutrients, vitamins, microelements on 100 gr:

Caloric content: 274.0 kcal;

Water: 20.0 gr;

Fibers: 2.5 gr;

Fats: 0.5 gr;

Carbohydrates: 69.2 gr;

Fat acids: 0.1 gr;

mono - and diglucose: 69.2 gr;

Food fibres: 6.0 gr;

Organic acids: 0.3 gr;

Ashes: 1.5 gr;

Vitamin B1: 0.05 mg;