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Name: Shabloot (Urdu Language)
Just discovered this dry fruit in my local fruit market and it's written in urdu language that "This fruit is for Diabetes"

Anyone has tried this Huh

I wasn't able to figure this out so I called a friend. They told me that "shabloot" translated to chestnut but they questioned the spelling. It's a transliteration though so...

"shabloot" seemed to point to "chestnut" in English but those are no chestnuts I've ever seen. Google image search has been rendered absolutely useless so that didn't help one bit. Anyway... I thought maybe it was date seeds and found this on the NIH website:

"Accordingly, in our study, it is hypothesised that supplementation with date seed powder (DSP), as an efficient adjuvant treatment, can improve hyperglycaemia, insulin resistance, hyperlipidaemia, oxidative stress, anti-/inflammatory status, mental health and dysbiosis of the gut microbiota in patients with T2DM "

and this from iopscience:

"Conclusion: the active substances in date palm seeds can improve oxidative stress in pancreatic beta cells so that it can restore insulin production. Consumption of date seeds has the potential to reduce blood glucose levels in hyperglycemic patients and does not change the glycemic index in normal people."

After comparing more images, I realized it can't be date seeds either but hey, maybe philipma1957 can use date seed power until we figure out what the heck those things are. I decided to give it one last try and I'm fairly confident that we're looking at acorns from the mighty oak.

It would have been nice if there were a few stray caps in the image you provided to help verify but... I'm 95% sure that's what they are. I don't know anyone who eats them around here - I mean you can eat them but they require processing to remove the tannins otherwise, you'll probably feel sick... you could poison yourself but before that, your tongue will feel like the insole of your boot. That being said, once properly processed, they are very nutritious and maybe they're also helpful when it comes to treating diabetes:

"Acorn muffins could be utilized as an adjuvant therapy to control appetite and ameliorate glycated haemoglobin in patients with type 2 diabetes. However, further investigations are required for a more comprehensive conclusion." - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9922149/

Have you eaten them? If so, how do you prepare them?

I blew the image up and not a date or a chestnut or an acorn.

not sure what it is at all.
edit it is a fresh date.
https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=fresh+date+image&fr=aaplw&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fc8.alamy.com%2Fcomp%2FH21941%2Fraw-organic-golden-fresh-young-dates-in-a-bunch-H21941.jpg#id=24&iurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn8.dissolve.com%2Fp%2FD1062_36_306%2FD1062_36_306_1200.jpg&action=click
https://dissolve.com/products?utf8=✓&keywords=fresh+date&media_type=photo
https://dissolve.com/products?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=fresh+date&media_type=photo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dattes_deglet_from_Biskra.jpg
they are okay for a diabetic
wiki

I wonder if mine are similar to the picture of either of yours?

I have these left over from early 2022, and I had a Chinese friend who bought these in a Chinese food store and that friend ate these as a snack. I don't know much more about them, except that I had tried one or two, I was not impressed, and the remaining ones shown in the picture have largely been just sitting in my bowl for 2.75 years-ish.

the bowl looks way more aged than deez nuts