MORINGA OLEIFERA PLANT "VALUE AND UTILIZATION IN FOOD PROCESSING "

Moringa oleifera: a food plant with multiple medicinal uses.

Moringa oleifera Lam (Moringaceae) is a highly valued plant, distributed in many countries of the tropics and subtropics. It has an impressive range of medicinal uses with high nutritional value. Different parts of this plant contain a profile of important minerals, and are a good source of protein, vitamins, beta-carotene, amino acids and various phenolics. The Moringa plant provides a rich an...

Moringa Oleifera Leaf as Functional Food Powder: Characterization and Uses

Moringa oleifera commonly known as drumstick, horse radish, shobhanjana, murungai, soanjna, shajna, sainjna is often referred as “mother’s best friend” is a plant found wide applications in food and allied fields due to rich source of diverse range of nutrients and bioactive materials. Moringa is considered as one of the world’s most useful plant per available literature and thus all the plant ...

Abortifacient Activity of a Medicinal Plant “moringa Oleifera” in Rats

Dried powder of leaf extract of common Indian plant Moringa Oleifera of Moringaceae family was tested experimentally in albino rats in our laboratory for its antifertility activity. Cant per cent abortifacient activity was found when administered orally in aqueous solution at dose of 175 mg/kg body weight daily to Charles foster strain albino rats from days 5-10 post mated.

Moringa Oleifera, Miracle Tree

Evaluation of Moringa Foliage (Moringa oleifera) as Goat Feed

Thirty five growing male goats (6.98±0.86 kg BW) were divided into five equal groups with seven animals in each group. The five dietary treatments were consisted of varying proportions of Moringa foliage (Moringa oleifera) and napier grass (Pennisetum purpurium); T1 (100% Moringa foliage); T2 (75% Moringa foliage+25% napier grass); T3 (50% Moringa foliage+50% napier grass); T4 (25% Moringa foli...