Dates: benefit and harm to human health

Dates in the East, and even ancient Egypt have always been considered unusual and even sacred delicacy, as well as the availability of food in the desert climate. In these countries it is considered that, eating only dates and water alone can live for several years, and in addition to completely clean and restore your body.

In our country, dates are also quite popular and favorite dried fruits, but not as common as raisins, dried apricots and prunes, but have a much more valuable properties.

Before our country dates revenues and used in dried (sun-dried) form, as namely in the form of dried fruit, they reach their unique spicy flavor and concentration of mineral substances for the organism. But also in dried form, they are also valuable and nutritious.

The use of dates

All their nutrients dates are happy to share with us, the people. In those countries where the fruit grows, especially in the Muslim world, it is considered tasty treat for children. It perfectly replaces there pastries and candy. And eat it with tea can with milk.

Fresh dates are added to the different dishes. This and salads, and pies, and bread, biscuits and cakes. Make of them, even the juice, which is considered an alcoholic beverage. Still produce sugar and date honey. By the way, the sugar of the fruit, is considered much healthier than cane or beet.

If you eat 10 or 15 of these sweet, with the refined taste of fruits, the cleaning body so pleasant and simple method is provided. This makes it possible to increase performance and mental activity. Such a diet, and the appearance of a positive effect. Hair condition improves, skin, teeth. Eating up to two dozen dates every day, and separately from each other, get food immediate result.

How useful dates?

The most delicious fruits grow on the palms of the East. Popularity have large varieties of fruits royal Iranian origin. Why dates - the good and the harm to the body which are known for many centuries - are not forgotten in our day? Their value - low caloric content, the presence of a large number of trace elements, vitamins, amino acids. Fruits are rich in fast carbohydrates - fructose, glucose - help the rapid saturation, no cholesterol in them.

The advantageous properties of dates for the body remained for a long time, they need to be properly selected and stored. These fruits help:

1. Primarily, figs contain large amounts of dietary fiber (6.7 g per 100 g product). Dietary fiber normalize gastrointestinal regulate chair. Due to the fact that they are not digested by the body, fibers clean the intestines of toxins and participate in the reconstruction of its microflora.
2. Reasoning, can contain the dates and favor and damage, it is necessary to evaluate them contained in the amount of calcium - 64 mg per 100 g of product. Calcium - is a macrocell, the right to every person, because the strength of bones, skeleton and teeth are directly dependent on a sufficient number of his body. In connection with this, dates are recommended for pregnant and lactating women who need a balanced and nutrition enriched with calcium.
3. In Phenicia contains an important element for the body - potassium. It supports normal heart muscles, and the muscles of the human skeleton. A small amount of dates - 150-200 grams of potassium fully satisfy the daily requirement for an adult man and child to get the required amount of potassium enough to eat 2-3 pieces of date fruit.
4. The presence in Phenicia pantothenic acid suggests that they regulate the body's metabolism, increase immune resistance in acute respiratory diseases, control of the nervous system and adrenal. Keep this in mind, to use dried dates the benefits and harms are in a non-comparable balance - and the preponderance in the direction of benefit.
5. A large amount of retinol, or otherwise, of vitamin A, in Phenicia help keep hair healthy and Split Ends, and nails - beautiful and strong.

The dates contained minerals and substances also play an important role in the restoration of body functions in the presence of cardiovascular diseases, and healthy person helps to maintain a full range of all useful substances. These include:

• Iron;
• Magnesium;
• Phosphorus;
• Sodium;
• Zinc;
• Copper;
• Manganese et al.

Dates will help to maintain strength during long journeys, tedious road. Therefore, a traveler would be worth to take a snack on a portion of the fruits of tamarind, it had adopted researchers and lovers of long road - fatigue becomes easier to move through this healing product.

Also figs contain a variety of vitamins, thanks to which the nutritional value of the fruits grown significantly:

• Thiamine (B1);
• Riboflavin (B2);
• Niacin (B3);
• Pyridoxine (B6);
• Folacin (B9);
• Ascorbic acid (Vit. FROM);
• Vitamin D;
• Vitamin K.

Rich energy value - 277 kcal per 100 grams of the product indicates that the dates may well be a full snack during the day. Enough high-calorie product, thanks to the rapid carbohydrates sate the appetite, gives energy and strength.

The use of dates for the man of the body

As the dates - the good and the harm to the body that men studied, they can be used for the daily menu? Recommend their use with nuts, honey for a quick recovery after high physical activity, exercise. This reduces fatigue, there are power, energy and endurance. In order not to cause harm should be considered a contraindication to use.

The dates are useful for men? These tasty fruits help:

• increase physical strength;
• Hemorrhoid prevention;
• eliminate the effects of stress;
• reduce the risk of stroke;
• increase potency;
• improving the quality of semen;
• Removal of an alcoholic intoxication;
• improve brain function;
• reduce the risk of cardiovascular pathologies.

The use of dates for the woman's body

If you regularly use in dried, fresh, these fruits can improve their health, improve their appearance. How useful dates for women? They need to be consumed daily in order to:

• ease the symptoms of menopause;
• relieve premenstrual syndrome;
• improve sexuality, the libido;
• relax after a psychological and physical stress;
• stop the aging process;
• gain weight anorexia.

Dates for weight loss

Many women dream to remove a couple of extra kilos, but can not give up eating altogether or severely restrict yourself to sweet. Nutritionists recommend replacing sugar on dates. They are a large number of sucrose, however, it is fully processed and converted into energy and not deposited on the hips in the form of extra centimeters.

Plant fibers dates allow "trick" the body, and the longer it will feel satiated. This means that by snacking in the form of sandwiches could be phased out. By the way, many women take it dates to the office for a snack. Firstly, they do not need special storage conditions. Secondly, they allow you to quickly and permanently satisfy your hunger.

Dates can be eaten as a standalone product and add dietary salads, cereals and beverages. Due to their composition, even during a diet the body will be full of strength and energy.

What is the harm of dates and to whom they are contraindicated

For all the usefulness of dates there is a whole list of limitations to their use.

1. A limited number of stands have fruit for people diagnosed with a stomach ulcer.
2. High glycemic index dates dangerous for those who are sick with diabetes. even a few berries can provoke a rise in blood sugar.
3. I do not recommend them for people who have kidney problems. Especially in urolithiasis.
4. You can not use the fruits of those who suffer from fructose intolerance.
5. High-calorie dates harmful to people who are prone to obesity.

Do you have any restrictions to the use of the fruit of the date palm, or they do not, can not eat the fruit in large quantities. Children and adults only 10 berries a day to get all the necessary vitamins and minerals.

How to choose?

To choose the right dates, which will bring the body to the benefit, not harm, it is necessary to use simple rules:

1. The outer peel in dates, dried in a natural way, without cracks and damages. If the fruit has a lot of breaks, their peel exfoliates, it says that they were dried accelerated method, the furnace using preservatives. Such dates processing method facilitates their rapid drying, but affects taste and quality, they become sticky during storage, lose shape.
2. Dried fruits can not be light - it shows their immaturity. Ripe, useful dates have a dark brown color, uniform and homogeneous.
3. If the surface of the fruit seen small sugar crystals, they were treated with sugar syrup.
4. Good dates do not stick together, have a dull color skin and a pleasant smell - these fruits were dried directly on the date palm in a natural way. Sticky and too wrinkled fruits - a sign that they had been before storing insufficient drying. These dates use is dangerous.

When selecting dates, pay attention to the non-shiny (matte), fruits with stones. These dried fruits contain the maximum amount of nutrients and have not been exposed to the chemical treatment.

How to store?

Everyone has to decide for himself, in what form will be stored fruits: clean or dirty. On the one hand, it is much easier to get hold of the jar have clean fruit and eat right, you wash in the sink and wait until it dries. However, if after washing is not enough dried dates, then during storage, they can be damaged.

Keep them can be in several places:

• in the refrigerator (up to one year);
• in the freezing chamber (5 years);
• on a shelf in the cabinet (up to six months).

These tips apply only to those fruits that vyalili or dried, fresh dates in the usual cabinet can not be stored. Keep the product should be in the pot with a loose lid or holes to prevent mold.