The Famous Moringa Tree!
This extremely fast growing woody species ( Moringa oleifera , Moringaceae) doesn't look like much, but it could open up a new category of crops: "vegetable trees."
Moringa produces long pods with the appearance of giant green beans and the taste of asparagus. It also produces masses of very small leaflets that are boiled and eaten like spinach.
Being so small, the leaflets sun dry in just a few hours and can then be put in a jar and stored for the off-season, a time when dietary minerals and vitamins are often scarce.
In addition to providing these natural supplements, the moringa tree yields seeds that clarify turbid water. Compounds in its seeds make traces of silt and clay settle out as effectively as the alum our water departments use. In the rural tropics, moringa seeds could be employed to make water safer for drinking and cooking.
Taken all round, this species could be a powerful new weapon against two great scourges, malnutrition and water-borne disease.
Moringa produces long pods with the appearance of giant green beans and the taste of asparagus. It also produces masses of very small leaflets that are boiled and eaten like spinach.
Being so small, the leaflets sun dry in just a few hours and can then be put in a jar and stored for the off-season, a time when dietary minerals and vitamins are often scarce.
In addition to providing these natural supplements, the moringa tree yields seeds that clarify turbid water. Compounds in its seeds make traces of silt and clay settle out as effectively as the alum our water departments use. In the rural tropics, moringa seeds could be employed to make water safer for drinking and cooking.
Taken all round, this species could be a powerful new weapon against two great scourges, malnutrition and water-borne disease.
The Moringa Tree's Nutritional Values
Moringa has over 92 verified nutrients.
Moringa leaves are also loaded with essential
vitamins and minerals,especially vitamins A and C.
Delivering such a power punch of bio available
nutrition, Moringa leaves are capable of preventing
malnutrition and a host of other nutritionally related
diseases such as beri beri and rickets.
Moringa leaves have the potential to deliver the
nutrition needed to prevent and cure diseases.
Natural solutions
to the Haitian health issues.
Fresh Leaves
Gram for gram, fresh
leaves contain about:
4 times the Vitamin A of
Carrots
7 times the Vitamin C of
Oranges
4 times the Calcium of Milk
3 times the Potassium of
Bananas
3/4 the Iron of Spinach
2 times the Protein of Yogurt
Dried Leaves
Gram for gram, dried
leaves contain about:
10 times the Vitamin A of
Carrots
1/2 the Vitamin C of Oranges
17 times the Calcium of Milk
15 times the Potassium of
Bananas
25 times the Iron of Spinach
9 times the Protein of Yogurt
Moringa leaves are also loaded with essential
vitamins and minerals,especially vitamins A and C.
Delivering such a power punch of bio available
nutrition, Moringa leaves are capable of preventing
malnutrition and a host of other nutritionally related
diseases such as beri beri and rickets.
Moringa leaves have the potential to deliver the
nutrition needed to prevent and cure diseases.
Natural solutions
to the Haitian health issues.
Fresh Leaves
Gram for gram, fresh
leaves contain about:
4 times the Vitamin A of
Carrots
7 times the Vitamin C of
Oranges
4 times the Calcium of Milk
3 times the Potassium of
Bananas
3/4 the Iron of Spinach
2 times the Protein of Yogurt
Dried Leaves
Gram for gram, dried
leaves contain about:
10 times the Vitamin A of
Carrots
1/2 the Vitamin C of Oranges
17 times the Calcium of Milk
15 times the Potassium of
Bananas
25 times the Iron of Spinach
9 times the Protein of Yogurt
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