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Date

Phoenix dactylifera

A date is a soft fruit. Cooks stuff dates or shallow-fry them.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Fruit
Part used
Fruit
Family
Arecaceae
Texture
Soft
Cooked most in
Africa
Top country
Algeria
Date, whole

Photo: Salma kyari · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use date

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Shallow fry
  • Stuff

Preparing it

Remove the stone before stuffing dates.

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

  • Soft

Nutrition

What 100 g of date holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 2%Fat 0%Carbohydrate 97%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of date
Energy277 kcal · 1,160 kJ
Protein1.8 g
Fat0.15 g
Carbohydrate75 g
of which sugars66 g
Fibre6.7 g
Sodium1 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of date: minerals and vitamins
Potassium696 mg
Calcium64 mg
Iron0.9 mg
Magnesium54 mg
Zinc0.44 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)7 µg
Folate15 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 168191), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where date is cooked

3 dishes in the catalogue use date. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list date among their ingredients.

Origins

Native to
Iraq, Pakistan, India

  1. About 7,000 BCE · Pakistan

    Dates were cultivated in western Pakistan around 7000 BCE.

  2. 1769 · United States

    Spaniards had introduced dates to California by 1769.

On the table

Dishes made with date

1 of the 3 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Stuffed dates

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include date.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: date in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Around the world

What date is called

Names in 76 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    dátil · datil

  • French

    datte · Dattes

  • Italian

    dattero · Datteri

  • German

    Dattel

  • Dutch

    dadel · Dadels

  • Greek

    Χουρμάς · χουρμάδες

  • Turkish

    hurma

  • Russian

    финик · финики

  • Polish

    Daktyle

  • Arabic

    تمر · التمور · التمر · البلح

  • Hebrew

    תמרים

  • Chinese

    椰枣

Show all 76 languages

  • Asturian

    Dátil

  • Atikamekw

    Pikesaniminan

  • Bashkir

    финиктар · хөрмәләр

  • Basque

    Datil

  • Belarusian

    фінікі

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    фінік

  • Bulgarian

    Фурма · Фурми

  • Burmese

    စွန်ပလွံ · သစ်သီး

  • Cantonese

    椰棗

  • Catalan

    dàtil

  • Chechen

    Хурма

  • Crimean Tatar

    hurma

  • Czech

    datle

  • dag

    dobino

  • Danish

    Daddel · Dadler

  • Egyptian Arabic

    تمر

  • Esperanto

    daktilo

  • Estonian

    datlid

  • Finnish

    taateli

  • Galician

    Dátil

  • Gujarati

    બોર

  • Haitian Creole

    Dat

  • Hausa

    Dabino

  • Hungarian

    datolya

  • Inari Sami

    taatel

  • Indonesian

    kurma · buah kurma · korma

  • Interlingua

    Dactylo

  • Irish

    dáta

  • Japanese

    デーツ

  • Kabyle

    Tiyni

  • Kannada

    ಖರ್ಜೂರದ ಹಣ್ಣು

  • kge

    Kurmo

  • Lingala

    Dáti (mbuma)

  • Lithuanian

    datulė · datulės · finikas

  • Lombard

    Datter

  • Luxembourgish

    Dattel · Phoenix dactylifera

  • Malagasy

    Antrendry (voany)

  • Malay

    kurma

  • Malayalam

    ഈന്തപ്പഴം · ഈത്തപ്പഴം

  • Mari

    финик

  • Minangkabau

    kurma · korma · buah kurma

  • Moroccan Arabic

    تمر · تينّي · تيڭنّي

  • Mossi

    Tamaro

  • nah

    Zōyacapolin

  • Navajo

    Hashkʼaan dijéʼé

  • Northern Sami

    dádel · dáttal

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    daddel

  • Old English

    fingeræppel

  • Ossetic

    финик

  • Piedmontese

    Dàter

  • Pontic

    ούα

  • Romanian

    Curmală

  • Serbian

    Datula (plod)

  • Shan

    မၵ်ႇသႅင်ႈ · မၢၵ်ႇမႆႉ

  • Sicilian

    Dàttula · Addàttula

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    椰枣

  • Skolt Sami

    taatel

  • Slovak

    Datľa

  • Slovenian

    datelj · datlji

  • Swedish

    dadel

  • Tatar

    хөрмә җимеше

  • Tulu

    ಖರ್ಜೂರ

  • Ukrainian

    фініки

  • Uzbek

    Finik

  • Venetian

    dàtolo · dàtoli

  • Wolof

    tandarma

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q1652093

Photos

Photo: Salma kyari · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons