Lo storico greco Strabon (Geografia, XVI, 1,14) riportava che, oltre l'orzo, la Babilonia tirava tutto lo resto della sua sussistenza della palma. "Con le fibre della palma, i babilonesi fanno ogni tipo di lavori; coi noccioli di datteri i loro fabbri suppliscono alla mancanza di carbone; con questi stessi noccioli, che si è lasciato apposta macerare nell'acqua, si nutrisci i gregge; se ciò che si dice è vero, si canta in Persia una vecchia canzone nella quale è enumerata fino a tre cento sessanta modi di utilizzare la palma."
Il produzione da datteri è al centro dell'economia delle oasi. Le ricerche e le iniziative condotte in questo campo sono principalmente consacrate alla produzione ed allla commercializzazione, intorno all'inventario delle diverse varietà di datteri ed il miglioramento delle loro qualità. Il mondo oasiano riparo infatti un ricco artigianato basato sui sottoprodotti della palma. La palma da datteri fornisce peraltro una grande varietà di sottoprodotti destinati all'alimentazione umana. Queste produzioni riguardano per l'essenziale:
*le preparazioni a base di datteri,
* i prodotti a base di linfa,
* i prodotti a base di noccioli,
*i prodotti a base di germogli,
*i prodotti a base di polline,
*la trasformazione degli scarti,
*l'industria del vimine,
*la produzione tessile,
*la falegnameria,
*la costruzione.
In quanto combustibile, il bosco di palma serve peraltro a diverse industrie.
DATTE
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INDUSTRIA
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NUTRIZIONE
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AL-YAHYAI, R. and L. AL-KHARUSI, 2012. Physical and chemical quality attributes of freeze-stored dates. In Int. J. Agric. Biol., 14 97–100. Link : http://www.fspublishers.org/
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MIRGHANI M.E.S., AL-MAMUN A., DAOUD J.I., MUSTAFA S.M. 2012. Processing Of Date Palm Kernel (Dpk) For Production Of Edible Jam. In : Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 6(1): 22-29, 2012 . Link : http://www.insipub.com/
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MEDICINA
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AL-SHOAIBI Z., AL-MAMARY M.A., AL-HABORI M.A., AL-ZUBAIRI A.S., ABDELWAHAB S.I. 2012. In vivo Antioxidative and Hepatoprotective Effects of Palm Date Fruits (Phoenix dactylifera). In: International Journal of Pharmacology, Year: 2012 | Volume: 8 | Issue: 3 | Page No 185-191. Link : http://scialert.net/
AKUNNA Godson G., Chia L. SAALU, Oluwaseyi S.O. GUNMODEDE, Babatunde OGUNLADE, Ayomide J. BELLO, 2012. Aqueous Extract of Date Fruit (Phoenix Dactylifera) Protects Testis against Atrazine-induced Toxicity in Rat. In: World J Life Sci. and Medical Research 2012; 2(2):100-108. Link: http://www.rrpjournals.com/
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