We're all familiar with dates - the dark brown, sticky sweet oblong fruit grown in Mediterranean climates that are often used in desserts. In Asia, there are something called red dates. These fruits, also kown as jujubes (in Korean, "dae-chu"), are somewhat rounder than the regular dates we're used to, not as sticky nor as sweet, and obviously, they are a brownish red.
The red date has medicinal value in Asian culture. Along with ginseng, Koreans add dae-chu to sahm-gyae tahng, which is a healthy, nourshing soup. Sometimes, red dates are considered an herb, believed to prolong, enhance, and harmonize the effect of other ingredients in medicinal formulas. Supposedly, red dates are a good cure for insomnia, work against the effects of aging, and help with fatigue, hypertension and malnutrition.

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