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Cultivation: areas of the Mediterranean, Arabia, the Persian Gulf, the Canary Islands and South America
- Botanical name: Phoenix dactylifera
- Family: Arecaceae
- Tree description: long-limbed and imposing, able to reach high heights (20 or 30 meters)
- Powerful roots: they dig into the ground supporting the body of the plant
- Trunk: rough, wrinkled covered with scales
- Dates: sweet fruits containing a woody seed
- Flowers: small and yellow, grouped in panicles
- Leaves: rigid greenish fronds, up to three meters long, forming a sort of crown on the top of the tree
- Description: fleshy berries ovate at the ends, with a very sweet and pleasant flavor
- Fruit shape: oblong
- Date color: brownish-brownish
- Internal: single woody seed, hard and pointed
- Outside: dates are wrapped in a thin and fragile film
- Clusters: they have from 200 to 1,000 fruits each
- Types of dates: hard or soft pulp
- Drying: increases the sugar concentration and prolongs storage times
- Variety of dates: Berhi and Hiann (eaten fresh)
- Fine dates: dates from Israel, fleshy and large
- Calories per 100 grams: 253 → not recommended for low calorie diets
- Sugars: 50-70%
- Water: 20-30%
- Proteins: 2.7% → suitable for low protein diets
- Fat: 0.60%
- Minerals: magnesium (mainly), iron, potassium, copper, zinc, calcium, manganese and phosphorus
- Vitamins: modest amount of vitamins, especially those of group B (B1, B2 and B6)
- Amino Acids: Date contains all essential AAs, with the exception of tyrosine
- Fruits: can be enjoyed "natural", combined with hazelnuts, almonds or dried fruit in general, or accompanied with cheeses
- Date honey: obtained by blending ripe dates, possibly adding a little "d" water
- Date flour: obtained by grinding dried (hard) dates → date bread
- Date wine: obtained from the fermentation of dates, left to macerate in water
- Coffee substitute: obtained from the roasting of date kernels
- Laghbì, or laghbì: a very particular euphoric and intoxicating drink obtained from the milky solution of the palm trunk
- Date = pectoral fruit (together with jujubes, grapes and figs)
- Decoction of dates: useful in case of sore throat, inflammation of the intestine
- Decoction of dates: powerful anti-catarrhal and emollient activities
- Dates: source of iron → useful in case of anemia
- Dates, source of magnesium: tonic for nervous and muscular activity, stimulant
- Dates: rich in mineral salts → excellent natural remineralizer
- Homeopathic field: the mother tincture obtained from the bark of the branches of Phoenix dactylifera → brings relief in case of menstrual pain
- Construction area: the date palm trunk is used for the manufacture of small buildings
- Ornamental setting
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