Moringa, Preventing Malnutrion

A recent interest in Moringa by a popular online blog entitled “bred for the world” (www.blog.bread.org) has raised awareness of the under utilized nutritional components of the Moringa Tree. Racine Tucker-Hamilton, media relations manager for Bread for the World describes the Moringa Tree as a magical plant comparable to the bean stalk in the infamous child’s tale of “Jack and the Beanstalk”. Only Moringa is a real plant that is sharing its magic, eliminating malnutrition across the globe. Tucker-Hamilton notes, “The leaves are a few inches long, but their nutritional value puts a multivitamin to shame. Gram for gram, Moringa leaves have a whopping seven times the vitamin C of oranges; four times the vitamin A of carrots; four times the calcium of milk; three times the potassium of bananas; and twice the protein of yogurt.”