613Torah613: Fresh dates are bright yellow, and with drying they turn to the dark color. Like many tropical fruits, they are eaten both ways, the fresh is the consistency of an apple, the taste is mildly sweet and astringent. After learning the sugya of lungs in treifos where a lung peeled “like a red date” is discussed, I found such red dates in the bik’ah on a trip to the Golan. They were half ripened, and of a burnt orange to red color.
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