05-03-2010, 02:28 AM
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Moringa-tree- eat the blooms, fresh seed-pods + seeds; PURIFY H2O with powdered-seeds
'World's Most Useful Tree' Provides Low-Cost Water Purification Method For Developing World
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The procedure, which uses seeds from the Moringa oleifera tree, can produce [between] 90 to 99.99% bacterial reduction in previously untreated water, and [the process] has been made free to download...
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[this tree is ] drought-resistant... yields cooking and lighting oil, soil fertilizer, [and] highly nutritious food in... its pods, leaves, seeds and flowers. Perhaps most importantly, its seeds can be used to purify drinking water at virtually no cost."
Moringa tree seeds, when crushed into powder, can be used as a water-soluble extract in suspension... an effective natural clarif[ying] agent for highly turbid and untreated pathogenic surface water. As well as improving drinkability, this... reduces... turbidity (cloudiness)...
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thats an amazing thing - and good on them for making it free-use! 
much to my surprise, these trees have already arrived in the USA...
Moringa Miracle Tree of Life
nutrient analysis of the powdered-leaves:
Leaf Powder
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Moringa leaf powder... gram for gram:
* 7 times the Vitamin C of oranges
* 4 times the Vitamin A of carrots
* 4 times the Calcium of milk
* 3 times the Potassium of bananas
* 3 times the Iron of spinach
* 2 times the Protein of yogurt
Leaf Powder Analysis per 100 mg
MINERALS
Calcium 2,003 mg
Iron 28 mg
Potassium 1,324 mg
Sulfur 870 mg
Copper .57 mg
Magnesium 368 mg
FOOD VALUE
Protein 27 mg
Carbohydrate 38 mg
Moisture 7.5 mg
Fat 2.3 mg
Calories 205 mg
VITAMINS
Vitamin A 16.3 mg
Vitamin B1 2.6 mg
Vitamin B2 20.5 mg
Vitamin B3 8.2 mg
Vitamin C 17.3 mg
Vitamin E 113 mg
These are the main nutrients in the dried-leaf powder. As soon as we can,
we will give you the analysis on the fresh leaves and pods.
Please note:
Moringa is an excellent vegetarian source of CALCIUM!
Start with little bits, until you get used to the taste. It is great mixed into guacamole, and packs a lot more nutrition into an already healthy dip. Put it in split pea or lentil soup; in dips, sandwich spreads, or patés. You can sprinkle it on rice, casseroles, salads, or mix it into salad dressing. Put it in omelettes, muffins, biscuits and breads.
Personally, I like it in quinoa, with butter, garlic, and maybe a dash of salt.
AMINO ACIDS
The following 8 amino acids are essential to human life. They form the very basics of building proteins.
ISOLEUCINE
lEUCINE
LYSINE
METHIONINE
PHENYLALANINE
THREONINE
TRYPTOPHAN
VALINE
There are VERY-few things in the vegetable family that can claim ALL of them. MORINGA DOES! That is great news for vegetarians.
AND 10 of the of the non-essential ones
ALANINE
ARGININE
ASPARTIC ACID
CYSTINE
GLUTAMIC ACID
GLYCINE
HISTIDINE
PROLINE
SERINE
TYROSINE
are very poorly represented in most plant proteins.
Incorporating Moringa into your daily-diet can insure that you get an adequate supply of them.
Eating a strictly vegetarian diet can cause deficiencies of those 8 essential amino acids, unless care is taken to combine foods together that contain them.
The 2 non-essential amino acids that are not in Moringa, are asparagine and glutamine, which can be manufactured by the body.
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