Dates are a remedy for heartburn
When the date is firm and its color is yellowish-orange, it is called Khark. Khark has a sour taste due to the large amount of tannins (a substance found in the extracts of many plants) and low sweetness, low in calories.
Another type of fruit that is mostly seen at the Iftar table is Rotab. Rutab is semi-ripe and brown in color and is softer and sweeter. In fact, the longer this fruit stays on the tree, the sweeter it becomes and ripens in the heat of date palms and becomes semi-dry. This date has high sugar and is very high in calories.
Hamid Afshari, an environmental health expert of Famenin Health Network, in connection with this issue, referring to the types of dates and equality in terms of nutrients in this food, adds: Iron, magnesium and B vitamins of dates calm the nerves, eliminate anemia. It is refreshing and is suitable for people with high blood pressure due to its high potassium content.
He added: Phosphorus of this fruit increases mental activities and its sugar reduces lethargy due to rapid absorption, so dates are the best medicine to relieve heartburn and reduce sourness.
The environmental health expert of Famenin Health Network emphasized: Pancakes and sweets containing dates, because they contain sugar, flour and oil, have a lot of calories in the body and are not as nutritious as dates.
He called the best place to store dates a refrigerator and pointed out that you should not buy dates with juice and sugar, he said: If you want to keep this product for a longer time, freeze it.
Also, if a variety of dates undergoes severe temperature changes, the juice will drop at high temperature and at low temperature, this juice will appear as crystals on the surface of the date and will turn brown. It changes the date, so you should avoid buying juicy dates, especially those that are offered in bulk in some places.
He added: These dates are very sticky due to high humidity and sap, and easily absorb environmental microbes and can infect the consumer with a variety of diseases, on the other hand, some of them are prone to acidification.
Afshari said: it is better to wash dried dates with hot water because the sugar content of dates is very high and eating the dried type in large quantities is not recommended.
He added: Since worm infestation and sourness reduce the quality and nutritional value of the product, dates should be selected that have hygienic packaging, expiration date and health license.
Referring to the medicinal properties of dates, the environmental health expert of Famenin Health Network said: The date tree has countless properties and it can be said that all parts of this tree can be used. Also, baskets and carpets are prepared from the leaves and branches of the date tree.
He added: People of the desert grind the kernel of a palm tree and make bread from it, or roast the flour of this kernel and use it as coffee because it is very pleasant to brew, or even soak this flour in water for a few days. They give it to their camels as a nutritious food and believe that this food is stronger than wheat and barley.
Afshari pointed out: The Arabs have long believed that dates absorb and store the sun’s energy, and this energy is transmitted to their bodies by eating dates.
In the end, he added: Strengthening sexual power, providing energy to the body, preparing ointment from green palm kernels and eliminating swelling of the eyelids are among the benefits of this food, which today, in addition to being the best fruit to recover energy and youthful strength of date palm flowers. They also have medicinal properties.