Riyadh, Jun 28, 2019, SPA -- A group of scientists and experts participating in the Dates' Workshop, in the context of Super Fruit seminar held in Rome, confirmed the beneficial effects of dates. grown in more than 40 countries around the world, and their important role in food security, recommending strongly to classify dates as super fruit. Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Dr. Mohammad Al-Ghamdi remarked that a large number of the representatives of FAO member states, participated in the workshop. For her part, Deputy Director-General for Climate and Natural Resources Dr. Maria Helena Semedo thanked the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for organizing the workshop on the dates, in the framework of the search for wide-scale, affordable and at avail edible foodstuff, to secure food security based on the notion of super fruit. --SPA 19:02 LOCAL TIME 16:02 GMT 0015 www.spa.gov.sa/w1127805