Remarkable Moringa

The Karawa hospital is using dried moringa leaf powder to help patients, mostly children, suffering from malnutrition. The moringa oleifera leaves are very rich in protein, minerals and vitamins. The dried leaves have protein content 16 times that of milk, iron content 3 times that of spinach, potassium content 15 times that of bananas, calcium content 8 times that of milk and vitamin A content 10 times that of carrots. WOW.

Marta planting Moringa

Marta Klein is becoming known as the moringa lady. She was given the Ngbaka name “Demomo” which means “good, pretty” saying “she has brought something good into our lives.” Marta has been working with two other people in the nutrition department of the hospital teaching them how to harvest the moringa leaves, dry them in the sun and pound them into dried powder.

Drying and pounding Moringa leaves

At the hospital they teach the mothers of the malnourished children in the pediatrics ward how to add 1 teaspoon of this leaf powder to the children’s food twice a day. Since most mothers do not have teaspoons, they use their fingers to add 8 pinchfuls to equal 1 teaspoon. Creative. The results are very encouraging.

Cindy planted 100 moringa seeds behind the Noren’s house while we were living at Karawa in March. 65 seeds germinated. Later she went with Marta and the nutrition team to plant 15 of these young trees at the Bokpasi Health Center, about 1 mile from the hospital. The other 50 trees were planted in a garden near the hospital.

Growing Moringa - seedlings ready to be transplanted

Cindy has accompanied the nutrition team for several visits to the Bokpasi Health Center where they taught the nurses and health agents about good nutrition and how to use moringa in cases of severe malnutrition. It was encouraging to hear last week that the head nurse Justin was already teaching what he had just learned to other people in the village. This involves growing a variety of plants and trees in their gardens, eating a balanced diet and making sure that pregnant mothers and young children eat enough protein and nutritious calories every day. Moringa is great as a short-term boost to those suffering from malnutrition, but the long term answer is knowing about good nutrition and eating a balanced diet.

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Moringa Oil- The Oils of Oils

Moringa oil has exceptional anti ageing properties. The antioxidants and the nutrients present in the Moringa oil help to curb the activity of the free radicals on the skin. The free radicals are the agents that cause damage to the skin tissues and pave way for skin wrinkles. Antioxidants rich Moringa Oil, curbs the activities of free radicals and hence finds a place in the anti ageing creams.

Food for Gladiators: Strength and Endurance

Our First True Gladiator in a Crossfit comp being fueled by moringa.

Food for Gladiators is an exciting product based on dried Moringa powder and seed powder. The combination of the two gives you the nutrients needed for strength while sustaining your endurance.

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The Moringa (Malunggay) Tree and Its Powers

Malunggay, scientifically known as Moringa Oleifera, is native to Republic of the Philippines. It is one of the varieties of genus Moringa that is widely cultivated in Asia. It belongs to the family of Moringaceae. Malunggay is an extraordinary vegetable tree which parts were noted to contribute potential uses. Its tree is slender that can grow as high as 10m. It has multiple branches that bear numerous tiny leaves.

This miracle tree grows in tropical and subtropical areas. It can grow faster in sandy soil but it can thrive in any type of soil, even salty soils in the coastal areas. It is can tolerate and resist drought seasons and can survive rainy seasons. The tree is not robust enough to stand intensive windy climate. Accordingly, most parts of the Malunggay tree are edible.

The young green pods that are called drumsticks are the popularly used part of the Malunggay tree. It tastes like slight asparagus and usually cooked like green beans. For mature pods, the beans will be taken out and can either roasted or eaten like peas. The flowers taste like mushrooms and very delicious. The leaves are like spinach that is added up to chicken or fish broths for a delicious finish. The tree contains calcium, beta-carotene, Vitamin C, protein, iron, phosphorous and potassium.

In Siddha medicine, malunggay seeds are taken to increase and prolong sexual activities and serve as the treatment for arousing and erectile disorders in both men and women.

Forty percent of edible oil, called ben oil, can be yielded by Moringa seeds. Ben oil may be used in cooking, cosmetics, and as lubricants. Once refined, the ben oil looks clear and odourless. It can also resist rancidity like any other botanical oils. The seeds being gathered after oil extraction are used to fertilize plants or as flocculants for water purifying.

Lots of scientific studies were conducted proving the humble plant's powerful and nutritional components. It has the ability to rebuild weak bones, enrich good blood flow, and nourish lactating mother's milk. Its containing calcium per ounces is compared to four glasses of milk. It has more of vitamin C than is compared to seven orange fruits and its potassium is like that of three bananas.

According to Lowell Fuglie, the nutrition and Vitamins we can get from a Malunggay is 10 times more than other food source such as carrots for beta carotene, orange for vitamin C, banana for phosphorus, spinach for iron, milk for calcium, and yogurt for protein.

The Malunggay tree also contains antibiotics and anti-inflammatory treatments. It is because the tree can be a good source of alkaloids that can pre-empt unwanted growth. It can heal wounds so easily and can even stop the bleeding of an open and internal wound.

The tree of moringa is therefore a miracle tree. At present, the World Health Organizations are enjoining the help of government and non-government organizations of tropical countries to plant, in massive scale, the tree of Malunggay. African and Asian countries are well supported to cultivate this plant to address hunger and malnutrition.

For more information and to order Moringa products, please visit our website at: http://moringashope.com

Moringa Oleifera Dried Leaf Powder Capsules - Organic

Moringa's Hope is now offering our organically grown, Moringa Oleifera dried leaf powder in convenient, easy to swallow, vegetarian capsules.

Moringa Oleifera is known world-wide as the "Miracle Tree" and for good reason. Moringa Oleifera contains all the essential vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants and amino acids needed for the body to function properly.

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Malunggay or Moringa Oliefera remains to be the main source of food nutrients among vegetables around the world. It is very nutritious and will not cost you much. Sometimes, it is for free. It was found to have lots of vitamins and minerals. The food you can produce with the malunggay is very delicious. Actually, there are lots of ways how to cook them.

Moringa's Hope has taken the health benefits of the Moringa leaf, dried them, and made a powder that has been put into easy to take, vegetarian capsules. Now you can get the great nutritional benefits of Moringa and add it to your daily diet.

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Moringa or Malunggay likes to live in a tropical to semi-tropical regions. It can tolerate neglect and change of climates. It is slightly invasive because the seed alone can create growth once settled in the soil. It is propagated also by pruning. It is a fast growing plant that can rise as high as 15 feet in height.

Malunggay is everywhere in the Philippines. You can avail of it from your neighbor’s generosity or from your backyard. All you need is a substantive strength to pick droplets from the tree and the patience of tricky pulling of tiny leaves. The leaves are proven to possess nutritive value. A 100 grams of leaves has 75 calories for energy. It is higher than ampalaya, squash, tomatoes and carrots. It has proteins, carbohydrates, calcium, niacin, and amino acids.

A properly cooked fresh leaves of malunggay, at one third cup volumes, has fair amounts of calcium, vitamins A, B, and C. On one hand, the 200 grams of malunggay leaves would yield nutritive values higher than the milk and eggs. Malunggay is rich in iron that will aid in protection of the red blood cells or the haemoglobin. Iron deficiency called anemia can be cured by constant taking of the leaves. It will maintain substantive blood supply, too.

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Now Available, Organic Moringa (Malunggay) Grown in North America

Moringa Oleifera has been called “The Miracle Tree” and for good reason. Every part of the tree is edible, nutritious and packed full of nutrients to sustain life. It also contains most all of the essential amino acids that is needed for body development and growth. Called “Malunggay” in the Philippines, “Sajina” in the Indian Subcontinent, and “Moringa” in English, it is a popular tree.

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At Moringa’s Hope, our desire is to provide not only the nutritional benefits of Moringa, but also to provide a means of education and self-preservation for those who are without hope in many parts of the world.

Moringa can be grown as a food supplement, providing much needed nutrition such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids as well as powerful anti-oxidants’ to help fight malnutrition and disease.

One of the best features of Moringa is that it is also tasty and the leaves, pods and flowers of this versatile tree are all edible, each with its own flavor. They can be served fresh with meals, or be reduced to powder and used as a food supplement. Moringa powder is used in a variety of products, including food product, health products and cosmetics.

The vision of Moringa’s Hope is to help educate and provide an income opportunity for families in developing countries who desire to learn how to grow, harvest and sell at markets worldwide to provide much needed income.

As a certified organic grower of Moringa Oleifera we are not just a middle-man or broker. We are the growers and as such, we have a much better control over our products to ensure that what we ship to our customers is top quality product.

Here are some pictures from our farm.

For more information on purchasing organically grown Moringa direct from the grower, check out our website at http://moringashope.com

Moringa (Malunggay) as Bio-Fuel

Moringa (Malunggay) as Bio-Fuel
by Dave Roekle

The OPEC or the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has monopolized the production and distribution of fuels. Most member countries are in the Middle East. In oil importing countries, the availability and price of oil is dependent to OPEC. As oil production and supply decreases, the high cost of fuel is experienced. It is on this reason that many researches were conducted to seek new discoveries for fuel alternatives. Most researches are concentrated on various types of plants that have fuel producing potentials. The produced fuel will be environmentally friendly as it will come from plants.

The Philipines, as a rich country in terms of flora and fauna, is seeking better methods to combat the effects of climate change. Environmental degradation is the number one problem why the country is experiencing massive flooding and drought. A new discovery by a Filipino biotechnology company in the United States has plugged the Philippine wonder plant, malunggay, as source of bio fuel.

The malunggay, known scientifically as the Moringa Oliefera, which is popularly cultivated in the Philippines as backyard vegetable and as border trees is the most useful plant ever existed in planet Earth. A good source of bio fuel source was discovered in malunggay. With this, the SECURA International has recently announced that the North American Biofuels Inc. (NABI) has tapped malunggay oil since January as potential raw material for biodiesel production. SECURA International is currently developing and planting malunggay in mass scale. At present, five hundred thousand hectares of the plant is cultivated to meet the demands the latter.

SECURA International President Danny Manayaga is encouraging all Filipinos to take due advantage of this development. Malunggay can be easily grown in the country. It can even be planted by pruning or by seeds. Once in the ground, it will easily find its way to root. It can grow with less intervention. There is no need of fertilizers and pesticides. To meet the demands of Malunggay oil supply for the bio diesel, Filipinos are encouraged to plant and grow as many as they want.

Planting and cultivating malunggay in massive scale is a sustainable business because the market is very accessible. At present, there are 165 marketing companies using soybean oil as biodiesel’s raw materials in the United States. It is anticipated that in 50 years from now, Japan and Korea will be the biggest markets of Moringa oil because of its numerous automobiles that are using bio diesels.

The Malunggay oil as biodiesel is not just matter of speculation, second-thoughts about it should therefore be set aside. As NABI has identified the plant to be potential source of bio diesel, it should erase all confusions. The institution has authenticated that the plant has passed the standards of the bio diesel.

In 2007, the Philippine government declared and indorsed jathropa plant or locally known as tuba-tuba as the source of bio diesel. Jathropa is not an edible plant. It cannot be even consumed by animals because of its toxicity. According to experts, the remnants of jathropa, after extraction, becomes a nuclear waste. Malunggay, on the other hand, is a hundred percent usable and all of its parts are biodegradable.

Moringa (Malunggay) as bio diesel will help the country in the problem caused by climate change. It will also elevate the living conditions of the poor because raising malunggay requires no big budgets.

The Wonders of Moringa Oleifera (Malunggay) Leaves

Malunggay or Moringa Oliefera remains to be the main source of food nutrients among vegetables around the world. It is very nutritious and will not cost you much. Sometimes, it is for free. It was found to have lots of vitamins and minerals. The food you can produce with the malunggay is very delicious. Actually, there are lots of ways how to cook them.

Moringa or Malunggay likes to live in a tropical to semi-tropical regions. It can tolerate neglect and change of climates. It is slightly invasive because the seed alone can create growth once settled in the soil. It is propagated also by pruning. It is a fast growing plant that can rise as high as 15 feet in height.

Malunggay is everywhere in the Philippines. You can avail of it from your neighbor’s generosity or from your backyard. All you need is a substantive strength to pick droplets from the tree and the patience of tricky pulling of tiny leaves. The leaves are proven to possess nutritive value. A 100 grams of leaves has 75 calories for energy. It is higher than ampalaya, squash, tomatoes and carrots. It has proteins, carbohydrates, calcium, niacin, and amino acids.

A properly cooked fresh leaves of malunggay, at one third cup volumes, has fair amounts of calcium, vitamins A, B, and C. On one hand, the 200 grams of malunggay leaves would yield nutritive values higher than the milk and eggs. Malunggay is rich in iron that will aid in protection of the red blood cells or the haemoglobin. Iron deficiency called anemia can be cured by constant taking of the leaves. It will maintain substantive blood supply, too.

Grow Your Own Moringa Oleifera (Malunggay) - Live Plants Available

Gregory Palm Farms is pleased to announce the availability of live Moringa Oleifera (Malunggay) plants at their Orange, CA. farm. These are mature plants, ready to be planted in your yard or garden.

This miracle tree grows in tropical and subtropical areas. It can grow faster in sandy soil but it can thrive in any type of soil, even salty soils in the coastal areas. It is can tolerate and resist drought seasons and can survive rainy seasons. The tree is not robust enough to stand intensive windy climate. Accordingly, most parts of the Moringa (Malunggay) tree are edible.

The young green pods that are called drumsticks are the popularly used part of the Moringa tree. It tastes slightly like asparagus and usually cooked like green beans. For mature pods, the beans will be taken out and can either roasted or eaten like peas. The flowers taste like mushrooms and very delicious. The leaves are like spinach that is added up to chicken or fish broths for a delicious finish. The tree contains calcium, beta-carotene, Vitamin C, protein, iron, phosphorous and potassium.

For more information about Moringa, see http://moringashope.com



We have a limited quantity of the Moringa Oleifera (Malunggay) plants in containers available at our Orange, CA. farm.

The cost is $150. each + plus sales tax.

Call us today if you would like to purchase one or more of these trees.from Gregory Palm Farms
(714) 814-8525 or (714) 343-2277 or go to Moringa's Hope website at:
http://moringashope.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=69

Also, please visit our website at http://gregorypalmfarms.com for a complete catalog and pictures of all the palm trees that we currently have available.

The Wonders of Moringa (Malunggay) Tree - Part 2

The Wonders of Malunggay Tree - Part 2
by Dave Roekle
(see part 1)

In West Africa, physicians are using it to diagnose diabetic, hypertensive, and wounded patients. It serves as anti inflammatory medicine, as well. A dash of malunggay leaves or powdered leaves can purify and make the untreated water drinkable.

Furthermore, Moringa is a quadruple source of beta carotene as compared to carrots. It is effective in battling against cancer. We must inform Popeye, too, that malunggay has triple iron than that of spinach and more substantive features than olive oil. And enough with the expensive milk products produced intentionally for infants, the Moringa can be a cheap replacement or substitute for whole milk powder for malnourish treatments.

The dried leaf powder of malunggay, per grams, contains 27.1g protein, 38.2g carbohydrate, 19.2g fiber, 2.3g fat, 2,003mg Ca, 368 mg MG, 204mg Phosphorus, 1,324 mg Potassium, 28.2 mg iron, 870mg Sodium, 16.3 mg Vitamin A-B carotene, 1.33g Arginine, 2.6mg Vitamin B1- Thiamin, 0.61% Histidine/g/16gN, 20.5 mg Vitamin B2- Riboflavin, 1.32% Lysine, 8.2 mg Vitamin B3- Nicotinic acid, 0.43% Tryptophan (g/16gN), Vitamin C, 17.3 mg Ascorbic acid, 1.39 % Phenylanaline (g/16gN), 113 mg Vitamin E Tocopherol acetate, 0.35% Methionine (g/16gN), 1.19% Threionine (g/16gN), 1.95% Leucine (g/16gN), 0.83% Isoleucine, 1.06% Valine, 205 calorie, and 1.6mg oxalic. Whoaah! The list is too lengthy.

Given the aforementioned vitamins and minerals in the malunggay, no wonder why it was being called as nature’s healing wonder. It will not only cure illnesses, it will be a great help of preventing unwanted occurrence of ailments. It’s time for saving; cultivate your own Moringa (malunggay) tree. If you already have, care for it and gain the benefits.

Gregory Palm Farms in Orange, CA. has containerized, live Moringa trees for sale. You can get full details here: http://moringashope.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=69

The Wonders of Moringa (Malunggay) Tree - Part 1

The Wonders of Moringa (Malunggay) Tree - Part 1
by Dave Roekle

Most people believe that answers and solutions to their ailments cost a lot of fortunes. This is especially true if the disease they are suffering from is considered worst ones. This thinking often brings city-slicks to immediately seek the help of all affluent relatives notwithstanding the fact that illnesses can be cured by nature. They often forget the nature’s healing wonders. Solutions to the problems are basically abundant, cheap and even accessible for free.

For instance, Malunggay, scientifically known as Moringa Oleifera, is nature’s gift to mankind. It is available elsewhere. In a lot of Asian and African urban areas, residents have one or two trees in their backyards or front lawns. This plant is very popular and growing everywhere that makes it slightly appreciated by lots of Filipinos. Moringa is the English term for malunggay.

Does the sound of the term “Moringa” arrive as magic to your ear? Try to speak it aloud and you will notice! Well, not only the sound of the term is amazing, the existence of the plant is really a wondrous creation from the Omnipotent. The features of the plant such as leaves, flowers, trunks, roots and its seeds have plenty of uses. It can build weak bones, enrich an anemic blood, and produce lots of milk for lactating mothers, a delicious vegetable, and good source of almost all of helpful vitamins and minerals for a healthy body. It provides mineral and vitamins ten times more than oranges, spinach, bananas, milk, et cetera.

Gregory Palm Farms in Orange, CA. has containerized, live Moringa trees for sale. You can get full details here: http://moringashope.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=69

to be continued... http://moringashope.blogspot.com/2010/08/wonders-of-moringa-malunggay-tree-part_11.html

Direct from Organic Grower in North America - Moringa Leaf Powder

Moringa Oleifera has been called “The Miracle Tree” and for good reason. Every part of the tree is edible, nutritious and packed full of nutrients to sustain life. It also contains most all of the essential amino acids that is needed for body development and growth. Called “Malunggay” in the Philippines, “Sajina” in the Indian Subcontinent, and “Moringa” in English, it is a popular tree.

At Moringa’s Hope, our desire is to provide not only the nutritional benefits of Moringa, but also to provide a means of education and self-preservation for those who are without hope in many parts of the world.

Moringa can be grown as a food supplement, providing much needed nutrition such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids as well as powerful anti-oxidants’ to help fight malnutrition and disease.

One of the best features of Moringa is that it is also tasty and the leaves, pods and flowers of this versatile tree are all edible, each with its own flavor. They can be served fresh with meals, or be reduced to powder and used as a food supplement. Moringa powder is used in a variety of products, including food product, health products and cosmetics.

Now you can enjoy all the benefits of the Moringa Leaf Powder in convenient, easy to take, all vegetarian capsules.

Click here for more details.

The vision of Moringa’s Hope is to help educate and provide an income opportunity for families in developing countries who desire to learn how to grow, harvest and sell at markets worldwide to provide much needed income.

As a certified organic grower of Moringa Oleifera we are not just a middle-man or broker. We are the growers and as such, we have a much better control over our products to ensure that what we ship to our customers is top quality product.

Here are some pictures from our farm.

For more information on purchasing organically grown Moringa direct from the grower, check out our website at http://moringashope.com