Date Fruit

Benefits of Date Fruit

By Yanti

A date fruit has become the staple meal in the middle east for thousands of years ago, and a date fruit is usually the meal enjoyed by Muslims in many countries at the time of breaking fast, and a date fruit that is believed to come from around the Persian Gulf and called also the date palm has many benefits for health because many contain useful nutrients for the human body.

Carbohydrate in date fruit is really high where 100 grams of date fruits contain 75 grams Carbohydrate which is in the form of glucose or fructose that make sweet dates. In addition to the carbohydrates, dates fruits also contain a high number of nutrients such as vitamins A, B complex, C, E, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, iron, calcium, manganese, selenium, potassium, amino acids, and fiber

Health Benefits of date fruit

Dates palm contain many health benefits for the human body includes the following:

1. Consuming 100 grams of date fruits can lower blood cholesterol levels by inhibiting the absorption of fat or cholesterol in the large intestine so that blood cholesterol levels decreased

2. Potassium helps the heart in the palm to work on a regular basis, activates muscle contraction and helps regulate blood pressure, and this is very good for helping people with hypertension because of the contraction and relaxation of blood vessels with a good work that is not easily broken

3. Glucose as a type of simple sugar found in the body, and fructose sugars found in most fruits and both sugars are not harmful to health because of the natural processed in the body, and fructose is easily digested and processed in the body to produce energy

4. Vitamin A and Niacin assist in forming and maintaining the skin to stay healthy

5. Riboflavin and Niacin helps process food into energy needed to perform various activities

6. High tannin that content of dates works medicinally as cleaning agents in the body

7. Thiamine in date fruit helps release energy from carbohydrates and also important for nerve cells, while niacin maintain normal nerve function

8. Potuchin in dates fruit make contractions in blood vessels in the uterus and muscles of the uterus, thus preventing bleeding if given to women who had given birth.

9. Salicylate in date fruits serve to reduce and relieve pain or fever, as well as anti-inflammatory and anti pain and prevent blood clotting

10. Consume dates fruit on a regular basis e.g. a few date fruit every day can calm nerve cells through its influence on thyroid psychological condition that makes someone a better