“The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.”

- Goethe

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Nutritional Value

4 times the Calcium of Milk

4 times the Vitamin A of Carrots

7 times the Vitamin C of Oranges

Tiny leaves.

Enormous Benefits.

Gram-for-gram comparison of nutritional data1

2 times the Protein of Yogurt

3 times the Potassium of Bananas

4 times

It’s like growing multi-vitamins

at your doorstep.

Vitamin A

Vitamin B1

Vitamin B2

Vitamin B3

Zinc

Vitamin B3

Vitamin C

Calcium

Chromium

Copper

Iron

Magnesium

Manganese

Phosphorus

Potassium

Protein

Fresh leaves and common foods1, Dried leaves2

Leaves:NutritionMedicine

Trees:Alley CroppingErosion Control

Flowers:Medicine

Pods:NutritionMedicine

Consider the Possibilities

Seeds:Water PurificationMedicineOil

Gum: Medicine

Bark:Medicine

Roots:Medicine

Consider the Possibilities

Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Human Health

Program in El Salvador

¡Operación Moringa!Iglesia Estrella de

David

7 Yrs old 4 Yrs Old

Weight in Lbs 60 30Tablespoon per day 7 4Onz 2 1

Proteins 56% 63%

Carbohidrates 20% 22%

Grams 56.70 28.35

From this little tree of moringa…

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We prepared in the church this delicious soup ……for every body

She helps the church to divulge the blessing of the plant

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The project -Operación Moringa- from the Star of David Church consist of:A. To make two events per month, to divulge the uses of moringa as food, to

distribute recipes, to teach the cultivation procedures of the tree, directed toleaders from Catholic and Protestant Churches, School Teachers and otherscommunity leaders from the entire country.

B. To make twelve programs for Tv stations 29 and cable 98, about the plant, usesand to invite the Tv audience to attend the events

C. In each event to give to each leader 200 seeds of moringa, and they will give intheir community 20 seeds to 10 family heads, for planting it in pots or the yard.their community 20 seeds to 10 family heads, for planting it in pots or the yard.Each leader will receive 1 pound of moringa powder for his personal use.

D. All this lessons, books and seeds are for free for each leader attending theevents.

E. Up to date there are 5,000 seeds distributed. With the project in 5 years in canbe more than 5,000,000 new trees planted in the country enough to feed2,000,000 people per year.

F. The Start of David Church is looking for a sponsor for a 10 years program with acost of $ 70k per year, this include de TV programs, the events with 14,400leaders trained per year and more than 50,000 seeds per year purchased anddistributed. Each tree planted will give a minimum of 50 seeds per year.

Intensive CultivationEl Salvador, NicaraguaEl Salvador, Nicaragua

Livestock Fodder

Moringa Powder Increases daily weight gain

up to 32%Moringa Powder Moringa Powder Increases milk production

43% to 65%

Weight gain14, Milk production15, 16

Leaf powder Moringa

From the report on “Analysis of Leaf Powder for Nutritional Composition, July 17, 1998

86.9 75 7.5

26 92 205

2.5 6.7 27.1

0.1 1.7 2.3

3.7 13.4 38.2

Pods Leaf Powder

Water %

Calories

Protein (g)

Fat (g)

Carbohydrate (g)

Per 100 grams of edible portion:

Leaves

3.7 13.4 38.2

4.8 0.9 19.2

2 2.3 -

30 440 2,003

24 25 368

110 70 204

259 259 1,324

3 1 0

5 7 28

137 137 870

10 101 2

Carbohydrate (g)

Fiber (g)

Minerals (g)

Ca (mg)

Mg (mg)

P (mg)

K (mg)

Cu (mg)

Fe (mg)

S (g)

Oxalic acid (mg)

Carbohidrate, 38.3

Fiber, 19.2

Vitamines A-Z, 1.78

Aminoacids, 10.45

Minerals, 3.17

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

Protein, 27.1

0%

10%

20%

30%

100 grms of Moringa Powder

Leaf powder Moringa

From the report on “Analysis of Leaf Powder for Nutritional Composition, July 17, 1998

0.11 6.8 16.3

423 423 -

0.05 0.21 2.64

0.07 0.05 20.5

0.2 0.8 8.2

120 220 17.3

Pods Leaf Powder

Vitamin A - Beta Carotene (mg)Vitamin B - choline (mg)

Vitamin B1 - thiamin (mg)Vitamin B2 - Riboflavin (mg)Vitamin B3 - nicotinic acid (mg)Vitamin C - ascorbic acid

Per 100 grams of edible port ion:

Leaves

- - 113

Aminoacids

3.6 6 1.33%

1.1 2.1 0.61%

1.5 4.3 1.32%

0.8 1.9 0.43%

4.3 6.4 1.39%

1.4 2 0.35%

3.9 4.9 1.19%

6.5 9.3 1.95%

4.4 6.3 0.83%

5.4 7.1 1.06%

Phenylanaline (g/16gN)

Methionine (g/16gN)

(mg)Vitamin E – tocopherol acetate

Arginine (g/16gN)

Histidine (g/16gN)

Threonine (g/16gN)

Leucine (g/16gN)

Isoleucine (g/16gN)

Valine (g/16gN)

Lysine (g/16gN)

Tryptophan (g/16gN)

Effect of feeding different levels of foliagefoliage of Moringa oleiferato creole dairy cows on intake, digestibility,

milk production and composition

• An experiment was conducted in Nicaragua to determine the effect of feedingdifferent levels of foliage from Moringa oleifera Lam to dairy cows on intake,digestibility, milk production and milk composition.

• The treatments were: Brachiaria brizantha hay ad libitum, either unsupplemented orsupplemented with 2 kg or 3 kg of Moringa on a dry matter (DM) basis.

• Six Bos indicus cows of the Creole Reyna breed, with a mean body weight of 394F24kg were used in a replicated 33 Latin square design.

• Supplementation with Moringa increased ( P b0.05) DM intake from 8.5 to 10.2 and11.0 kg DM day1 and milk production from 3.1 to 4.9 and 5.1 kg day1 for B. brizantha11.0 kg DM day1 and milk production from 3.1 to 4.9 and 5.1 kg day1 for B. brizanthahay only and supplementation with 2 kg and 3 kg DM of Moringa, respectively.

• Milk fat, total solids and crude protein and organoleptic characteristics, smell, tasteand colour, were not significantly different between the diets.

• Apparent digestibility coefficients of DM, OM, CP, NDF and ADF increased ( P b0.05)in the diets supplemented with Moringa compared with B. brizantha hay alone.

• The results showed that the inclusion of Moringa as a proteinsupplement to low quality diets improved DM intake and digestibilityof the diet and increased milk production but did not affect milkcomposition.

Experimental design and statistical analysis

• The treatments were: – 1. B. brizantha

hay+sugar cane molasses,

– 2. B. brizantha hay+2 kg DMMoringa+sugar cane molasses and

– 3. B. brizantha hay+3 kg DM Moringa+sugar cane molasses.

Milk production and composition

• Mean daily milk production was significantly (P b0.05) higher for cows offered Moringa supplement than for those offered B. brizantha hay only (Table 3).

• Increasing the amount of Moringa offered from 2 to 3 kg DM did not increase daily milk production but supplemented cows produced significantly more milk (1.80 and 1.97 kg, respectively) than cows offered B. brizantha hay alone.

Milk Production and Composition

Other Results

• The results obtained with Moringa supplementation are in agreement with Rocha and Mendieta (1998) and Foild et al. (1999), who reported that cows supplemented with Moringa had 13% and 30%, respectively, higher milk production than cows fed a basal diet of Hyparrenia ruffa grass or Sorghum vulgare straw.grass or Sorghum vulgare straw.

• The findings in the Cratylia supplementation study are in accordance with a number of earlier studies where cows supplemented with Cratylia forage (0.5% of BW or 1.5 kg DM/100 kg LW0.75) had between 14% and 25% higher milk production than cows fed only sugar cane forage or grass, respectively (Lascano, 1996; Avila and Lascano, 1997)

Availability

El Salvador

Moringa Leaf Powder availability

Year 1 2 3 4Moringa Powder Tons per year 1,076 2,151 4,302 8,605 Price per MetricTon FOB ACAJUTLA 2,600 2,652 2,705 2,759 Price per MetricTon FOB ACAJUTLA 2,600 2,652 2,705 2,759