Showing posts with label Dates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dates. Show all posts

Diet For Diabetes During Ramadan

Wednesday, 16 July 2014 0 comments

Fasting during Ramadan is a must for all healthy Muslims. Sick people like diabetes are exempted from the duty of fasting. However, many Muslim diabetic patients wish to fast during Ramadan.

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Dates Nutrient Composition

Sunday, 6 July 2014 0 comments


The water content in dates decreases as they are ripened. The average water content of dates are 83.6%, 65.9%, 43% and 24.2% in the ‘Kimri’ stage, ‘Khalal’ stage, ‘Rutab’ stage and ‘Tamr’ stage respectively. 

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Dates for Ramadan

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It’s holy fasting month of Ramadan for 2014. Date palm is very familiar during this month. It is an important plant in the scorched regions of South Asia, Southwest Asia and North Africa. In Malaysia, dates are not an integral part of Malaysians' diet but it could be essential during month of Ramadan. For Muslim, dates are customarily used to break the day long fasts. In Middle East countries, dates become staple food of Arabian diet and known as low cost food. Egypt, Saudi Arabian, Iran, Algeria and Pakistan are the countries which produced million tones of dates each year. 

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