Dates vs. sugar – the duel!

Healthy snacking is possible! - "But dates are just sugar!"

If you have a conversation about dates being a very healthy alternative to commercial industrial sugar, this sentence comes up relatively quickly.

And yes, it's true. Dates are 70% sugar – composed of glucose and fructose. But unlike industrially produced sugar, dates are not just an isolated sweetener; they also provide us with plenty of minerals, fiber, and important vitamins.

Why are dates healthier than sugar?

To produce commercially available sugar from sugar beets, a complex process is required – the sugar is isolated and extracted. This results in a sweetener with a very high number of empty calories and no added benefit for the body or health.

Dates, on the other hand, are an untreated natural product that has been valued in the Orient for centuries.

And this is precisely where their great potential lies:

Dates taste delicious and delight us with a pleasantly mild sweetness – they stimulate digestion and ensure that carbohydrates are absorbed more slowly into the bloodstream. In this way, insulin levels rise only gradually. Dates thus provide us with balanced and sustained energy.

Unlike sugar, dates strengthen our nervous system – and help us fall asleep!

Sugar causes our insulin levels to rise very quickly – and then plummet just as rapidly. We usually feel unbalanced and jittery, lack sustained energy, and experience constant cravings.

Dates are a completely different story: they provide us with sustained energy and at the same time supply our entire nervous system with important B vitamins.

In addition to tryptophan, dates also contain melatonin – the so-called “sleep hormone”.

Eating dates in the evening can help you fall asleep more easily and wake up feeling more refreshed.

Dates – mild sweetness, sustainable energy and a boost for your health!

In addition to many important nutrients, vitamins and trace elements, dates also contain a proportion of antioxidants – thus protecting our body cells from free radicals and oxidative stress.

In addition, the tannins contained in dates have an anti-inflammatory effect and exhibit anti-cancer properties.

For us, dates are the clear winners in this duel – and in countries like Israel, Egypt, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia, the sweet fruit has long been cultivated and is a time-tested food with exceptional added value for one's health.