Elevated Organic Delicacies

Date palms are dioecious – meaning there are males and females – and pollination is dependent on human assistance. Bateel painstakingly places branchlets of male white flowers amongst female blossoms in a process that requires constant care and attention. Only female trees produce fruit and, once pollinated, the tree begins to produce fruit after six years.

Bateel produces exceptional quality organic dates.Branches of our date palms are regularly thinned, even if it means cutting away 50 percent of the fruit. The thinning process ensures optimum air circulation and space, so the remaining fruits grow to their best potential. As they begin to ripen, maturing dates are enveloped in well-ventilated cloth to deter birds and insects, which also helps avoid the use of pesticides.

As soon as the dates are harvested by hand in Saudi Arabia, they are immediately stored to halt further ripening and lock in flavours.The fruit is then cleaned using state-of-the-art technologies, before being assessed and graded to match stringent standards for size, colour, translucency and v skin condition.This ensures quality and consistency and is why every Bateel date is the best of the best.

Bateel harvests more than 3,000 tonnes of the highest quality, organic dates a year. Bateel harvests more
than 3,000 tonnes of the highest quality, organic dates a year. Staying true to tradition, Bateel farmers climb the date palms, often up to 20 metres several times over the course of the season in order to hand-pick each date at the perfect time.