Dried fruit production - Import export

This variety of dates are opal dark red to blackish brown in color, with a velvety texture and the skin is stuck to the fleshy part. They have a very small seed, even though this type of dates is bigger than others.

Walnut Cultivars

The most amount of Iranian dates export belongs to this category. Sayer (or Esta'maran) dates are dark orange-brown, have a high level of sugar and redundant juice. The seed easily separates from the flesh. These dates used as pitted or un-pitted for direct consumption or for industrial purposes. The best chapped dates, dates paste and dates syrup made from Sayer dates.

Zahedi date is very different in appearance; they are hard and shiny. This kind is a late-ripening type of dates. The top of the fruit has a dark color and on the end, near the cape is yellow to light brown. Sometimes the skin sticks to the flesh and sometimes it is not; in Zahedi also the flesh is completely separated from the seed.