Dates are especially delicious as a fresh fruit. When used in baking they provide superb taste to the final product. Dates are also used as a component in food preparations like,

• Sweets, snacks (date nut roll), confectionery, baking products, institutional feeding and health foods.
• Pastry, bakery, and beverages, whole pitted dates.
• Sandwich spreads Date juice and syrup.
• Party snacks, salads and appetizers.
• Date paste and date paste mixtures, Date jams, date butter or cream.
• Extruded date pieces and diced dates.
• Dehydrated dates, date flour (dietetic baby foods).
• Breakfast foods (dates with other dried fruits, cereals, almonds and nuts).
• Chocolate-coated and stuffed dates (with nuts).
• Liquid sugar (Saccharin as a low calorie sweetener for soft drinks), protein yeast and vinegar.
• Date preserves and cardiments, caramel products.
• Date desserts (with juice, ice-cream, whipped cream, etc.).