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Zer"o"Café, Date Seed Coffee Alternative: Health Benefits

Zer"o"Café, Date Seed Coffee Alternative: Health Benefits

Zer"o"Café, Date Seed Coffee Alternative: Health Benefits

Date Seed Quick Facts

 Name: Date Seed

Scientific Name: Phoenix dactylifera

Origin: Middle East and especially in the United Arab Emirates

Colors: Brown

Health benefits:

  • Prevents DNA damage

  • Useful in treating blood sugar problems

  • Antiviral agent

  • Prevents kidney and liver damage

  • Antioxidant

  • Has several skin benefits

  • Thickens hair

  • Fights free radicals

  • Moisturizes hair

  • Prevents premature greying

 

How to Eat?

A coffee-like product is made from date seeds by drying, roasting, and grinding them in a similar way to coffee beans, to produce caffeine-free coffee.

Traditional Medicinal Use:

The seed powder is an ingredient in a paste given to relieve ague (malaria or another illness involving fever and shivering).

Other Facts:

  • Date seed oil has been used to replace the portions of other vegetable oils in body creams, shampoos, and shaving soap formulations, and in general, the quality of these cosmetic formulations.
  • Date seeds comprise up to 15% of the date fruit’s weight.
  • The seeds contain a higher content of protein and fat compared to date flesh.
  • High content of dietary fiber and phenolics in date seeds makes them good ingredient for functional foods.
  • Utilization of date seed in animal feed improves weight gain and feed efficiency.
  • Date seeds can even be incorporated into necklaces.
  • They can also be used as a source of oil.
  • The seeds contain 6 to 8% of yellow-green, non-drying oil suitable for use in soap and cosmetic products.
  • Seeds are burned to make charcoal for silversmiths.

 

To know more on Date Seed Health Benefits refer: https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/date-seed/

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