Medjool Dates Fruit, Dried Fruit, Guava and Other Power Foods

Apparently there are many scientist experimenting and perfecting new techniques for cultivating dates in environments traditionally unfriendly to growing medjool dates or any other dates for that matter.  The world of biotechnology is apparently slowly changing the way we grow food.   In a few years there may be some hybrid medjool dates grown in tropical or perhaps even cold regions.  Rapid changes in technology are changing the way food is grown and even though consumers are becoming more and more sophisticated a lot of new product that often seems ridiculously fantastic is not natural grown, but a byproduct of scientific endeavor.  We are consuming the fruit of the labor of biotechnology, often without or knowledge.  What side effects will there be, it is yet to be determined.  Not until we cross the bridge and after it is too late to take an type of corrective action are we likely to findout what the side effects are.  It may not necessarily mean a negative and could actually result in positives.  We may end up living longer healthier lives, or perhaps have shorter life expectancies.  Maybe we will become insanely intelligent and or die by the millions and as a result put less pressure on our environment.  Perhaps in a decade or two you will be buying cantaloupe size medjool dates that are twice as sweet as naturally grown medjool dates.  It is an exciting world we live in, not just in biotechnology, but just about everything that is a part of our every day life from the most mundane chores  to the foods we enjoy, to the way we work.

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November is probably the beginning of the tourist season in palm springs.  A lot of people come by the medjool date fields.  They take pictures of the dates.  Many go to a famous date store for date shakes.  A few load up with tons of dates in preparation for Thanks Giving and Christmas.  The cheap dates are probably purchase more often, but are not nearly as sweet as the medjool date.  The medjool date is a real treat the other dates are really cheap gifts that often go uneaten.  There is just not much kick to the other dates.  The deglet noor and other dates are usually eaten as part of staple diet, not much different from bread.  In any case the wealthy tourists that abound in the desert are often the cheapest.  It is okay though, it helps keep the medjool dates in larger supply and therefore affordable.

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