Sweet Dates (Khajoor).
Dates are the sweet fruit of date palms, which can grow up to 30 feet tall and live for about 100 years. Date palms originated in what’s now Oman and Saudi Arabia and have been cultivated in the Middle East since 3000 B.C. Dates are rich in vitamins and minerals, including iron, calcium, phosphorous, potassium, riboflavin, and niacin. They’re also high in natural sugars, including glucose and fructose, which make them great energy sources while they sustain your mental health with antioxidant properties that protect against oxidative stress and inflammation. number one, Prevent High Blood Pressure, This is one of most common health benefits, so most people are familiar with it. A 2007 study published in Phytotherapy Research shows that dates help prevent high blood pressure and strengthen arteries by increasing nitric oxide production,
Soluble fiber might also aid digestion by acting as a thickening agent in your gut to slow digestion and boost feelings of fullness. number four, Promote Natural Labor, A new study found that laboring women who ate dried dates experienced a shorter length of labor, required less pain medication and had lower rates of cesarean births.Date fruit is packed with fiber and magnesium, which are both important to a healthy pregnancy. Dates contain natural sugars, but they don’t raise blood sugar like other sweets do—and that’s especially helpful if you have gestational diabetes.
number five, Good for Heart Health, Dates have been found to have a positive effect on heart health. the date fruit from the date poem we're going to find out does it actually help with labor and delivery what does it have to do with cancer but what is it going to do to your blood sugars hey everybody chad cruiser here with health and homestead and right now i am next to two of my very favorite trees in the world or kinds of trees the date palm and behind me we have the fig tree i love figs fresh figs are one of my favorite foods dates are one of my favorite foods i'm in southern california at an incredible date farm called anderson's date farm check them out if you're ever down here the best dates i've probably ever had and also probably the cheapest so check that out but let's look at the research what about dehydrated fruit in general research reported in march 2020 in the journal of advances in nutrition revealed that traditional dried fruit
consumption dried fruit without added sugar or preservatives like sulfur can lower certain risk of cancer or cancer mortality the chances of dying from cancer and they were specifically looking at dates prunes and raisins the research revealed a 24 lower risk of colorectal polyps a 49 percent lower risk of prostate cancer and a 65 percent lower risk of mortality from pancreatic cancer the research showed that overall dried fruit consumption seemed to be more protective against cancer than even fresh fruit but one of the things you want to try to avoid when eating dried fruit is the sulfurs or the preservatives they can actually be detrimental to your health did you know that thousands of years ago they used to believe that eating dates was beneficial for people's mental health well they taste so good you might want to imagine
that but has it actually been put to the test it has a randomized controlled trial was reported in the journal nutrients on dates three dates were consumed by one group daily for a total of six weeks and those who consumed three dates a day had a statistically significant lowering of their total and ldl cholesterol they also had an increase of quality of life and enhancement of their mental health so this is phenomenal to think that the date fruit which is unbelievably tasty might benefit lower your cholesterol and enhance your mental health in general but what about the impact of dates on alzheimer's in a separate study it turns out that those who consume dates had less memory loss lower levels of beta amyloid and less anxiety but this was done on transgenic mice that were prone to having alzheimer's so i'll be honest i don't take a massive amount of stock in studies that were done on mice or rodents so i'm i'm not saying this is going to happen in humans but hopefully maybe maybe it will make an impact i'm guessing in time they're going to test it on human what about
Dates(Khajoor)benefits and use.
dates in pregnancy research reported in the journal obstetrics and gynecology reports on date consumption and labor and delivery they had two groups of pregnant women either consume or not consume six dates daily starting four weeks before they were scheduled to have their babies it turned out that those who consumed dates were on average more dilated when they were admitted to the hospital 96 of them had a spontaneous delivery versus 79 percent who did not consume dates and those who consumed dates were less likely to need induction they simply found that those who consume six dates daily in the last month of pregnancy had more favorable deliveries than those who did not consume dates i know what some of you are thinking okay
it may help your cholesterol it may help with the labor and delivery process it might even help with cancer but obviously it must be very detrimental when it comes to just spiking blood sugar levels maybe 70 percent of the date is sugar and i know some of you are thinking oh that's that's going to make people very large and heavy and so forth i eat a ridiculous amount of dates and if if it helps gain weight it's not working for me i'll tell you that but let's look at the research so what about the blood sugar many would fear giving diabetics dates because all the sugar what happens when the researchers put it to the test a meta-analysis was conducted looking at date consumption on diabetics it turns out that on average diabetics who consume dates have a lowered fasting blood glucose or lower blood sugar when they're fasting a lower post perennial blood glucose or lower after meal blood sugar spike than those
who are not consumers and it had no impact on their a1c level they conclude the study by saying that dates may be beneficial to blood sugar control in diabetics you say okay but how many how many dates i mean we need some more specifics what about what if you eat like two is that too much or or three or four well how about five what if you ate seven or ten in a normal person or a diabetic what would be the impact five different varieties of dates were given to people who did not have diabetes and they were to consume seven to ten dates they found that there was no significant spike in blood sugar after the meal and it was found that the dates had a low glycemic index so what happens when they gave the same quantities of dates 7 to 10 days to people with type 2 diabetes they had no statistically significant difference in blood sugar and glycemic index now i don't know about you but this research on dates is phenomenal and it makes perfect sense i mean humans throughout history i mean it's clear from our physiology that humans are largely frugivores we're largely people who consume fruit so the idea that it's so bad for us it just number one it's contrary to science and it's number two contrary to the history of humanity and when you think about it when it comes to homesteading or growing your own food now i can't grow these anywhere near
where i live i mean living way up in the north but regardless the way that humans historically preserved food probably the oldest form of preservation was dehydration drying out foods and they would do this through various techniques one of them is simply laying them out in the sun and if you're in a place like southern california this can happen very very naturally we have a cousin who he'll take some fruit he'll just put it out on a pan outside put it out you don't need any kind of special thing it just will simply dry right there and so this is what humanity has done and the great thing is you can store fruit clearly through the winter and even much longer i'll tell you also one of the varieties of dates that's shown the greatest benefit according to research is a variety called halawi and halawi is probably my favorite variety of date there's also one called the barhi and i just had one here on the farm a few moments ago and in the right season when they are first coming off
the tree where they're still yellow they begin to brown and they begin to kind of mush become squishy and wet and when they do that i don't know if it's called bledding but regardless when that begins to happen to me it is the very tastiest food on planet earth i've never had anything better than that squishy just ripening date there's really nothing like it looking back through history they've looked at seeds and how long do seeds last how long will the seed germinate the oldest seed in the world that germinated that wasn't frozen was from the date palm it actually came from masada this mountain fortress 2 000 years ago and a number of years ago scientists found some date seeds there and they planted it or they planted several of them and they had one of them grow and it turned out to be a female plant because date palms.
what are called dioecius meaning they have male and female plants this this was a female plant that grew but then they found more seeds or they had more seeds they planted those and from what i understand i think they now have a male plant so in a number of years they may be able to pollinate them and we will find out uh you know how these dates end up tasting at this point fascinatingly enough being that these are male and female trees they hand pollinate them so they take some of the pollen from the males they bring it over to the female trees they used to take a little sprig of it and kind of put it up there with the female part of the plant and that would end up causing them to have the dates but now i hear they just kind of spread it on the female portion of the plant i'd love to hear what you have to say do you have a favorite variety of dates like.
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