name: Jujube
flavor_db_name_variants: jujube
source: foodb
status: draft
food_db_id: Jujube
id: 388
name_scientific: Ziziphus zizyphus
description: Ziziphus jujuba (from Greek ζίζυφον, zízyphon), commonly called jujube (sometimes jujuba), red date, Chinese date, Korean date, or Indian date is a species of Ziziphus in the buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae), used primarily as a shade tree that also bears fruit. The fruit is an edible oval drupe 1.5-3 centimetres (0.59-1.18 in) deep; when immature it is smooth-green, with the consistency and taste of an apple, maturing brown to purplish-black and eventually wrinkled, looking like a small date. There is a single hard stone similar to an olive stone.
itis_id: 28598
wikipedia_id: Jujube
picture_file_name: 393.jpg
picture_content_type: image/jpeg
picture_file_size: 369552
picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:30:50.000Z
legacy_id: 420
food_group: Fruits
food_subgroup: Other fruits
food_type: Type 1
created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:39.000Z
updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:24.000Z
creator_id: null
updater_id: null
export_to_afcdb: false
category: specific
ncbi_taxonomy_id: 48393
export_to_foodb: true
public_id: FOOD00388