But dates have so much more to offer than natural sweetness. Each bite of the chewy fruit is packed with nutrition, proving there is good reason to make them a more consistent part of your diet.

Dates are thought to be one of the first cultivated fruits in history, meaning that they were deliberately grown to eat rather than foraged from wild plants. How do we know this? Date stones are ...

Celebrity chef Aarti Sequeira led a group of date enthusiasts through two Coachella Valley farms, where Palm Desert Food & Wine attendees got to see how the fruit is grown and processed.