Table 2.

The proximal nutritional composition of different parts of date palm.

Date Palm Parts	Nutritional Composition	References
Palm pollen grains	Moisture (28.80%), ash (4.57%), crude fiber (1.37%), crude fat (20.74%), protein (31.11%) and carbohydrate (13.41%)	[46]
Date seed	Moisture (3.1–7.1%), protein (2.3–6.4%), fat(5.0–13.2), ash(0.9–1.8%) and dietary fiber (22.5–80.2%), phenolics (3102– 4430 mg gallic acid equivalents/100 g), antioxidants and dietary fiber (78–80 g/100 g)	[47]
Date leaves	Crude protein 4.8%, crude fiber 31.9% (Neutral detergent fiber 81.5%, Acid detergent fiber 59.8%, Lignin 14.6%), ash 12.9% (average Ca content about 7 g/kg and P about 1 g/kg) on a dry weight basis	[45]

Calcium: Ca, phosphorus: P.