Practical guides for food manufacturers, distributors and retailers sourcing bulk dates and date ingredients for the North American market.
Visible fruit inclusions for bars, granola and bakery. Cut sizes, the dusted-versus-undusted decision, and how pit fragments and fines are controlled.
Semi-dry, translucent amber and mildly honeyed. Grades, organic certification, pitted formats and why this Tunisian variety leads world date trade by value.
Jumbo, Large and Medium graded by pieces per kilogram. Organic supply, handling requirements and how to specify Medjool so you get what you paid for.
Dark, soft and culturally significant. Halal certification, Ramadan planning, retail formats and where Ajwa fits in a specialty range.
Golden, tender and butterscotch-sweet. Soft versus drier selections, organic supply and why it stands out on shelf next to the dark varieties.
Dark, chewy and balanced, at a competitive cost per kilogram. The value workhorse for private-label snacking and volume programmes.
Soft, golden-brown with a clean caramel flavour. Premium eating quality with fewer of the handling and pricing complications of Medjool.
Palms 30 to 40 metres tall, pollinated by hand every spring, 3.5 million of them across the Kébili and Tozeur oases. How Tunisia produces the date that leads world trade by value.
27% fewer calories, a third less sugar and 8 g of fibre where refined sugar has none. The full nutritional comparison, the baking ratios that actually work, and the one catch nobody warns you about.
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