Green Options » vegetable trees http://greenoptions.com/tag/vegetable-trees Posts tagged 'vegetable trees' Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:53:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Where to Find Miraculous Moringa in the U.S. http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/10/22/where-to-find-miraculous-moringa-in-the-us/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/10/22/where-to-find-miraculous-moringa-in-the-us/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:53:41 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/10/22/where-to-find-miraculous-moringa-in-the-us/ Forest & Kim Starr, USGS, at Wikimedia Commons, public domain.)Maybe you’ve never heard of Moringa oleifera, a tree native to parts of Asia and possibly the Middle East and Africa. Up until this past week, I hadn’t either. But after reading about the amazing nutritional punch packed by this tree, I can’t wait to try growing one.

According to the Wichita, Kansas-based Trees for Life, Moringa leaves have — gram for gram — seven times as much vitamin C as oranges, four times as much calcium as milk (and twice as much protein), four times as much vitamin A as carrots and three times as much potassium as bananas.

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