Moringa Oleifera in Malnutrition: A Comprehensive Review

Abstract

: Nutritional deficiency is a major concern in developing countries resulting in serious health consequences like mental and physical growth retardation. Moringa oleifera(Moringa), a nutritious plantgrowing in tropical regions of developing countries, is a candidate for overcoming nutritional deficiency. Moringa leaves are rich in protein including Sulphur containing amino acids.It contains high amounts of vitamin C than oranges, higher concentration of vitamin A than carrots, higher calcium content than milk and more potassium than bananas. Moreover, there is 9 times more iron in moringa than spinach, 4 times more fiber than oat. This review is enlightening and exploring the nutritional diversification of Moringa oleifera and other benefits which make it a better choice to use in our daily diet to combat the situation of malnutrition.

Short Communication: Plants used by Sundanese mothers for maternal care in a rural village in Bandung District, West Java, Indonesia

“…Because moringa leaves contain 25 times more iron than spinach, they can also improve breast milk quality in addition to their high nutritional value (Rockwood et al 2013). Moringa oleifera L., commonly known as moringa, is a plant with high nutritional value and has the potential to address nutritional deficiencies effectively (Mushtaq et al 2021, Rode et al 2022. The leaves of Moringa oleifera L., commonly known as moringa, are rich in nutrients and known to enhance the production of breastmilk.…”

Moringa oleifera: Recent Insights for Its Biochemical and Medicinal Applications

“…Tese components are illustrated in Table 4. Te plant parts contain a high amount of sulphur-containing amino acids, and they contain higher amounts of β-carotenes than carrots, higher amounts of L-ascorbate than oranges, higher levels of calcium than milk, higher potassium levels than that in bananas, nine times more iron than that in spinach, and four times more fber than that in oats [110]. Other functional chemical groups have been extracted from leaves such as aldehydes, acids, amides, alcohols, phenols, vitamins, and phytosterols [111].…”

“…(1) Moringa oleifera and Calcium. MO is approved to contain higher Ca than milk and more potassium (K) than that in bananas [110,233]. Many methods could be used for the formulation and extraction of MO to increase its bioaccessibility and bioavailability of Ca [234].…”

“…β-Carotenes, α-tocopherols, and L-ascorbic acid, along with vitamins B1, B2, and B3, were identifed in many plant parts of MO especially leaves [85,[246][247][248]. Te amount of vitamin A in MO is greater than that in carrots, and the amount of Lascorbic acid is greater than that in orange [110]. It has been approved also that the recommended daily allowance of vitamins A and C could be covered by the daily use of Moringa seeds and leaves [243,249].…”

Moringa Oleifera and Its Recent Practice in Food Industries - A Super Food Product to Beat Malnutrition: A Review

“…Since the last few decades moringa has been studied extensively to use it in food fortification. Dried leaves of moringa have been processed to produce herbal tea which retains better nutritional and sensory qualities than other herbal tea [11] . A study in Greece showed that herbal tea prepared from M.oleifera dried leaves had a great antioxidant activity due to flavonoles and total phenol contents [12] .…”