Nine foods, nine verses
Foods the Quran names.
Each one with the verse that names it, in Arabic and English, and what is in it.
01 / 09التمر
Dates
The fruit of the palm
وَهُزِّىٓ إِلَيْكِ بِجِذْعِ ٱلنَّخْلَةِ تُسَٰقِطْ عَلَيْكِ رُطَبًۭا جَنِيًّۭا ٢٥
And shake toward you the trunk of the palm tree; it will drop upon you ripe, fresh dates.
Maryam (peace be upon her), in labour beneath a palm tree, was told to shake its trunk and eat the fresh dates that fell to her.
Per 100 g
- Energy
- 277kcal
- Carbs
- 75g
- Sugars
- 66g
- Protein
- 1.8g
- Fat
- 0.15g
02 / 09الزيتون
Olives
A blessed tree
وَزَيْتُونًۭا وَنَخْلًۭا ٢٩
And olive and palm trees
In the passage that begins “Then let mankind look at his food” (80:24), the olive is named among the things Allah brings out of the earth.
Per 100 g
- Energy
- 116kcal
- Carbs
- 6.0g
- Sugars
- 0g
- Protein
- 0.84g
- Fat
- 11g
03 / 09العسل
Honey
A drink of many colours
ثُمَّ كُلِى مِن كُلِّ ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ فَٱسْلُكِى سُبُلَ رَبِّكِ ذُلُلًۭا ۚ يَخْرُجُ مِنۢ بُطُونِهَا شَرَابٌۭ مُّخْتَلِفٌ أَلْوَٰنُهُۥ فِيهِ شِفَآءٌۭ لِّلنَّاسِ ۗ إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَءَايَةًۭ لِّقَوْمٍۢ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ ٦٩
Then eat from all the fruits and follow the ways of your Lord laid down [for you]." There emerges from their bellies a drink, varying in colors, in which there is healing for people. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who give thought.
Surah An-Nahl, “The Bee”, tells of bees inspired to build their homes and eat from all the fruits, and of the drink that comes from them.
Per 100 g
- Energy
- 304kcal
- Carbs
- 82g
- Sugars
- 82g
- Protein
- 0.3g
- Fat
- 0g
04 / 09العنب
Grapes
Gardens of grapevines
فَأَنشَأْنَا لَكُم بِهِۦ جَنَّٰتٍۢ مِّن نَّخِيلٍۢ وَأَعْنَٰبٍۢ لَّكُمْ فِيهَا فَوَٰكِهُ كَثِيرَةٌۭ وَمِنْهَا تَأْكُلُونَ ١٩
And We brought forth for you thereby gardens of palm trees and grapevines in which for you are abundant fruits and from which you eat.
Grapevines are named again and again beside the date palm, as gardens of fruit given to people to eat.
Per 100 g
- Energy
- 69kcal
- Carbs
- 18g
- Sugars
- 15g
- Protein
- 0.72g
- Fat
- 0.16g
05 / 09التين
Figs
The fruit of an oath
وَٱلتِّينِ وَٱلزَّيْتُونِ ١
By the fig and the olive
Surah At-Tin opens with an oath by the fig and the olive, and takes its name from the fig.
Per 100 g
- Energy
- 74kcal
- Carbs
- 19g
- Sugars
- 16g
- Protein
- 0.75g
- Fat
- 0.3g
06 / 09الرمان
Pomegranates
Fruit of the two gardens
فِيهِمَا فَٰكِهَةٌۭ وَنَخْلٌۭ وَرُمَّانٌۭ ٦٨
In both of them are fruit and palm trees and pomegranates.
In Surah Ar-Rahman the pomegranate grows in the gardens of Paradise, beside fruit and palm trees.
Per 100 g
- Energy
- 83kcal
- Carbs
- 19g
- Sugars
- 14g
- Protein
- 1.7g
- Fat
- 1.2g
07 / 09الحليب
Milk
Pure, and palatable to drinkers
وَإِنَّ لَكُمْ فِى ٱلْأَنْعَٰمِ لَعِبْرَةًۭ ۖ نُّسْقِيكُم مِّمَّا فِى بُطُونِهِۦ مِنۢ بَيْنِ فَرْثٍۢ وَدَمٍۢ لَّبَنًا خَالِصًۭا سَآئِغًۭا لِّلشَّٰرِبِينَ ٦٦
And indeed, for you in grazing livestock is a lesson. We give you drink from what is in their bellies - between excretion and blood - pure milk, palatable to drinkers.
The Quran points to milk as a lesson: a pure drink that comes from between excretion and blood.
Per 100 g
- Energy
- 61kcal
- Carbs
- 4.8g
- Sugars
- 5.0g
- Protein
- 3.1g
- Fat
- 3.3g
08 / 09الزنجبيل
Ginger
A cup in Paradise
وَيُسْقَوْنَ فِيهَا كَأْسًۭا كَانَ مِزَاجُهَا زَنجَبِيلًا ١٧
And they will be given to drink a cup [of wine] whose mixture is of ginger
Among the rewards of the righteous in Surah Al-Insan is a cup whose mixture is of ginger.
Per 100 g
- Energy
- 80kcal
- Carbs
- 18g
- Sugars
- 1.7g
- Protein
- 1.8g
- Fat
- 0.75g
09 / 09الطلح
Talh
Banana, as many early commentators read it
وَطَلْحٍۢ مَّنضُودٍۢ ٢٩
And [banana] trees layered [with fruit]
In Surah Al-Waqiʿah the people of the right dwell among lote trees with their thorns removed, and among talh layered with fruit.
Per 100 g
- Energy
- 89kcal
- Carbs
- 23g
- Sugars
- 12g
- Protein
- 1.1g
- Fat
- 0.33g