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The physical properties of fruit and vegetable products play an important role in their quality classification. With the existing manual methods, disease, pesticide and quality status of agricultural products are checked during the control stages. Manual sorting and classification of products requires expertise and the process is time consuming and labor intensive. Today, with the developing technology, the processing and marketing of products can be realized in optimum time and efficiency with the software techniques used in the fields of agriculture and food. In this study, date palm fruit, which has an important share in the fruit and vegetable market, is considered. The use of image processing and artificial intelligence techniques in classifying the quality of date fruits makes the sales process more consistent and efficient. Within the scope of the study, four different artificial intelligence techniques were used with a uniquely prepared dataset. The dataset consists of three different classes: good, bad and medium quality dates. The dataset specially prepared for the study was trained with MobileNetV2, ResNetV2-50, DenseNet- 201 and Inception-v3 deep learning models. Among the four models used in the study, MobileNetV2 model was determined as the most successful model with 95% accuracy rate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]