UAE’s popular dates

Al Ain UAE has some of the greatest tasting dates in the market such as Neghal, Khalass, Khenaizi, Fard, Lulu, and Barhi.

All of these dates have slightly different nutritional properties and vary in size, colour, thickness, softness, and sweetness.

They have different moisture level and based on that they can be preserved for different length of time. Emiratis also used these dates in different food items such as jam, frosts, fruit cake, rolls, muffins and biscuits due to their Sweetness and taste. A large number of consumers, however, cannot differentiate between many types of dates.

Khalass is considered as a quality dates that has significantly higher contents of sugar and selenium and energy value than the other varieties. It is an average-sized variety of reddish dark brown in colour, moist and sticky. The flavour of fleshy Khalass is hearty and it taste like butter-caramel.

Fard is another popularly consumed date variety in the UAE and Oman. Its colour is dark brown, small in size and roundish. These dates are very sweet.

Barhi dates are usually preferred to be consumption at the Khalal stage.

Khenaizi dates are of medium size and dark brown in colour. They are also soft and highly sweet and slightly different in taste from Khalass.

Lulu dates are brownish in colour. They contain higher amount of sweetness and normally consumed in dry stage.