Dates vs. sugar – the duel!

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

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

And yes, it's true. Dates are made up of 70% sugar - made up of glucose and fructose. But unlike industrially produced sugar, dates are not an isolated source of sweetener, but also provide us with plenty of minerals, fiber and important vitamins.

Why are dates healthier than sugar?

In order to produce commercially available sugar from sugar beet, a complex process must be carried out - the sugar is isolated and extracted. This creates a sweetener with a lot of empty calories and no added value for your 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 exactly where their great potential lies:

Dates taste delicious and delight us with a pleasantly mild sweetness - they stimulate digestion and are responsible for the carbohydrates entering the bloodstream more slowly. This means that insulin levels rise only slowly. The date therefore provides us with balanced and long-lasting energy.

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

Sugar causes our insulin levels to rise very quickly – and then fall again at the same speed. We usually feel unbalanced and fidgety and have no sustainable energy available, as well as constant cravings.

Dates are completely different: they give us 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 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 - and thus protect 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 the sweet fruit has long been cultivated in countries such as Israel, Egypt, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia and is a long-established food with exceptional added value for one's health.