Nutritional qualities
The fresh date when it matures, is a fragile and delicate to carry fruit. It is partly for this reason it is dried (70% water to the fresh date it is 20%). Its energy value is 287 kcal per 100 grams. It is very rich in sugars (glucose, fructose and sucrose). It also contains vitamins (B2, B3, B5 and B6), a small amount of vitamin C as well as mineral salts (calcium and potassium). It is also rich in chromium (passing sugar cravings), as well as fibers.
The dates were the basic ingredient of diaphoenix, remedy the western sea in the eighteenth century.1 pharmacopoeia.