Editing Date palm (section)

=== Sap ===
[[File:Sweet sap from date palm.JPG|thumb|right|upright|Sweet [[Plant sap|sap]] tapped from date palm in [[West Bengal]], [[India]]]]

Apart from ''P. dactylifera'', wild date palms such as ''[[Phoenix sylvestris]]'' and ''[[Phoenix reclinata]]'', depending on the region, can be also tapped for sap.

The consumption of raw date palm sap is one of the means by which the deadly [[Nipah virus]] spreads from bats to humans.<ref name="Goats & Soda">{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/01/31/1148681236/trying-to-crack-the-nipah-code-how-does-this-deadly-virus-spill-from-bats-to-hum|title=The Nipah virus has a kill rate of 70%. Bats carry it. But how does it jump to humans?|publisher=[[NPR]]|series=Goats and Soda|date=31 January 2023|access-date=16 September 2023|archive-date=27 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231227110939/https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/01/31/1148681236/trying-to-crack-the-nipah-code-how-does-this-deadly-virus-spill-from-bats-to-hum|url-status=live}}</ref> The virus can be [[Inactivated vaccine|inactivated]] by boiling the sap down to [[molasses]].<ref name="Goats & Soda" /> (In [[Malaysia]], by contrast, 
the vector was found to be [[factory farming]] of [[pigs]].)<ref name="Goats & Soda" />