Seed Dates

Description

Date seeds are the by-product of date stoning, either for the production of pitted dates or for the manufacture of date paste.
The date seed is a hard coated seed, usually oblong, ventraly grooved, with a small embryo. Date pits weigh 0.5 g to 4 g and represent 6 to 20% of the fruit weight depending on maturity, variety and grade.
Date seeds can be used as a source of oil (which has antioxidant properties valuable in cosmetics), as a coffee substitute, as a raw material for activated carbon or as an adsorbent for dye-containing waters.