Dates - The Lovely Little Gem

Dates is one of the most nutritious foods on earth. It contains natural sugar and has lots of benefits to health. Dates is also used as a natural sweetener for cooking and making sweets.

Benefits of Dates

1. It lowers blood pressure
2. Good for weight loss
3. It prevents constipation
4. Good for digestion
5. Promotes heart health
6. Prevents colon cancer
7. High in iron
8. Highly beneficial for pregnant women
9. Anti inflammatory
10. Impotence
11. Lactation

Dates has been a part of religious teaching in Islam. Our Muslim brother's and sister's need to break their fast with dates (if not available, they should break their fast with water).

Breaking your fast with Dates helps to stabilize glucose levels in your body from fasting. It is easily digestible and helps to satisfy the hunger, So it prevents excessive eating. It is a natural sugar that are high in fiber, magnesium and other essential nutrients needed for the body.

Dates is the national fruit of the UAE (United Arab Emirates). It is planted everywhere across the country.

Dates can be eaten Fresh or Dried. Fresh Dates may be soft to semi soft and has moisture. It can stay fresh for up to 8 months when refrigerated in an airtight container.

Dried Dates

While Dried Dates has a lot less moisture. It is dehydrated and dried. It has a longer shelf life that can last a year if refrigerated in an airtight container.

There are lots of variety of dates, but all of them are similar in nutrition content. This rich flavour from sweet to mild sweetness will surely fills your sweet tooth, guilt-free.

Hundreds of Date Trees from the Emirates of Al ain, UAE

It's actually literally thousands of Date trees across the country.