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Iron is a major component of hemoglobin in red blood cells, which are responsible for carrying oxygen to all the other cells of your body. Iron deficiency can lead to anemia, a difficult condition to manage.
Dates consist of significant amounts of iron, which is obviously key for preventing and treating this condition, especially in children and pregnant women.
2. Treat Constipation
The significant potassium content in dates, as well as the high levels of soluble fiber in the fruit, can treat constipation. Dates are crucially a perfect and tasty digestive regulator!
3. Prevent and Treat Gastric Ulcers
Dates are soothing on your digestive tract and have been applied for centuries as a home remedy for ulcers. One 2005 study anncounced in the Journal of Ethnopharmacy confirms that dates do in fact have the ability to soothe inflamed ulcers in your digestive tract.
Researchers said, “The results implied that the aqueous and ethanolic extracts of the date fruit and, to a lesser extent, date pits, were effective in ameliorating the severity of gastric ulceration and mitigating the ethanol-induced increase in histamine and gastrin concentrations, and the decrease in mucin gastric levels.”
4. Facilitates Labor
This benefit may be a bit surprising to some people, but it goes back centuries.
A 2011 study announced in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology titled, “The effect of late pregnancy consumption of date fruit on labor and delivery,” displayed that women who ate 6 dates daily for 4 weeks prior to their scheduled due date, had significantly enhanced cervical dilation when in labor. They also experienced less damage to their cervical membranes after giving birth.
Plus, the study concluded they went into more spontaneous labor (98 percent compared to 79 percent) and only 28 percent of women needed drugs like prostin/oxytocin to induce labor. In fact, researchers say it was significantly lower as 47 percent of non-date fruit consumers needed this medication.
5. Prevent Canc3r
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