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Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets

By Darra Goldstein

Published 2015

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dates are the fruit of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera), a tree native to the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East. There are well over a thousand varieties of dates, ranging from dry and fibrous “camel dates” to moist and sweet medjools with their distinctive caramel-molasses flavor. They can be consumed in many stages, including the underripe khalal phase (crunchy and a bit astringent), the fully ripe rutab phase (moist and easy to spoil), and the tamr phase (wrinkled, less moist, and nonperishable) when most of the fruit are sold.

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