Home is where the heart is-3: Dates

I like dates, sometimes I chopped and cooked it use in cereal, bread and ice cream, jam, But,.......too sweet for me......and 100g=Calories 285. I've to get diet after eat dates.
When extremely dry weather will cause dates to shrivel on the palm.
Those dates are picked early while they are still light colored. Date seeds used in a variety of ways, soaked in water until soft n fed to camels, horses and goats. In India, date seeds are roasted, ground, and used to adulterate coffee.
The date palm must have full sun and thrives in sand, sandy loam. Most of date originated in the lands around the Persian Gulf . The palms are pruned twice a year, and watered 15 to 40 times a year. Overhead moisture during will cause cracks.
In Saudi Arabia use ladders, mobile steel towers with catwalks for pickers to expedite harvesting. And some place, the harvesters climb the palms, use sticks, ropes to lower the fruit, or they may pass the clusters down from hand to hand.