What nutrients are there in dates? A lot indeed! Here are delicious dessert fruits with much needed minerals and energy to help you stay fit and healthy!

The date fruit is a "drupe" in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp and mesocarp) surrounds a shell (the pit or stone) of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. The fruit is oval to cylindrical in shape, 3–7 cm long, and 2–3 cm diameter, and when unripe, range from bright red to bright yellow in color, depending on the variety.