“…Many studies have been conducted on the composition of the date flesh (Sawaya et al, 1983;Ahmed et al, 1995;Al-Hooti et al, 1995;Al-Shahib & Marshall, 2003a;Ismail et al, 2006) and seeds (El-Shurafa et al, 1982;Al-Showiman, 1990;Devshony et al, 1992;Hamada et al, 2002;Al-Shahib & Marshall, 2003b;Besbes et al, 2004). Besides nutritional value, researchers were also interested in the phenolic profiles (Mansouri et al, 2005), volatile compounds (Harrak et al, 2005), flavonoid glycosides (Hong et al, 2006) and in the antioxidant and antimutagenic properties of the aqueous extracts of the date fruit (Vayalil, 2002).…”