Moringa: A Life Saving Leafy vegetable
Moringa oleifera is a tree that grows to a height of about 3 to 5 meters having weak woody branches. The small round leaves are compounded and hang from their petioles. The branches open flowers and they turn into long green fruits with some ridges and fibrous skin. They are called drum sticks as they resemble the drum beater’s sticks. The leaves are harvested as bunches of compound leaves and separated later before cooking.
HIGHLY NUTRIENT MORINGA LEAVES
The Moringa leaves are highly nutritious and extra ordinary in providing beta carotene, vitamin C, protein, iron and potassium. It is a good source for calcium and phosphorus. The Moringa leaves have full of medicinal properties.
Many scientific and popular literatures report on the nutritional qualities of Moringa. Moringa leaves contain more Vitamin A than carrots, more calcium than milk, more iron than spinach, more Vitamin C than oranges, and more potassium than bananas. The protein qualities of Moringa leaves are superior to that of milk and eggs.
MORINGA LEAF A MEDICAL MIRACLE
To keep fit both mentally and physically, athletes all over the world take Moringa leaves to boost their performance. Moringa leaves improve the sharpness of mind for the senior citizens and acts as a protective weapon and a food with life saving medicinal value.
Moringa leaves heal ulcers, restricts the growth of tumors, reduce the pain and inflammation in arthritis, control blood pressure, restore skin tissue damages and they act as strong protective cover against diseases.
MORINGA LEAVES REMOVE TOXINS
Moringa leaf has a detoxifying effect and so purifies water; it can arrest the growth of dangerous bacteria by its natural coagulation property with other materials. It brings an improvement in energy level without over activity, balance in glandular and hormonal activity with controlled blood pressure and a restful nervous system. It improves goodnight sleep.
MORINGA LEAVES WIPE OUT MALNUTRITION
Moringa leaves wipe out malnutrition and is accepted and practiced internationally in anti hunger programs. Moringa leaves are proved to be rich source of essential nutrients and are capable of supplying them to the under nourished children of poor countries. It is an insurance against death for thousands in such countries. People in several countries have found that Moringa leaves are quite acceptable to taste, especially when added to common foods. Authentically, the Moringa leaf powder is suitable for people from any age group.
HOW TO COOK MORINGA LEAVES
· Moringa leaves can be eaten fresh or cooked. Cleaned and washed leaves are just added in the boiling water and cooked with split red gram dhal and other simple spices like onion and red chillies to make a sauce or gravy. This is usually taken with cooked rice.
· Moringa leaves can be taken as curry when just cooked with oil fried onion and red chillies with sufficient salt to taste.
· Just hang bunches of Moringa leaves for a few hours for drying in the shade. The dried leaves are separated and ground nicely and shifted to get fine powder. Moringa dried leaf powder is stored for many months without refrigeration, and reportedly without loss of nutritional value.
MORINGA DRY LEAF SAVES LIFE
A teaspoonful of dried leaf powder added to any kind of food like porridge can fulfill the daily requirement of proteins, minerals like potassium, iron and calcium and vitamins A and C. The powder has also been found to improve ulcers, eye problems and skin troubles. We can see rapid regain of health and vigor besides improvement in body weight.
MORINGA LEAF - NATURAL NUTRITION FOR THE TROPICS
In tropical countries, Moringa tree is with full of leaves at the end of every dry season. Moringa leaves act as a promising source of highly nutrient food especially among infants and nursing mothers. ‘Trees for Life, Church World Service and Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization’ - all these three non-governmental organizations have advocated Moringa as “natural nutrition for the tropics.”
IT IS FOR ALL YOUNG AND OLD.
Keep in mind. Moringa leaf is a miracle and should be consumed in any possible manner as vegetable, soup or dry powder added to any food preparations.
LIFE IS PLEASURE WITH MORINGA
The fruits with seeds are used as vegetables in cooking as gravy and also as vegetable curry. The drumstick cooked and consumed with seeds in any manner is capable of improving the sexual potency-erectile dysfunction- in male and prolonged pleasure in female.
