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Healthy Food Moringa
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I love the African saying: “You don’t eat the fruit the day you plant the tree.”
That’s so true. Many years back, 2018 to be precise, I bought a packet of moringa seeds from Amazon with hope. I sowed them in containers, in my semi-shaded patio. Some of them sprouted. I managed to keep one alive, and that plant is now 10 feet tall.
From summer to autumn, I regularly harvest bunches of moringa leaves.
If you don’t know, moringa leaves are highly nutritious.
In many parts of India, they grow like weeds. In my parents’ home, we had many trees, and I knew they were good for health. I remember asking my mother to prepare moringa, then taking a bamboo pole to pluck big bunches. We would sit together on the jute cot in the inner courtyard under the blue sky, picking leaves and chatting. A very happy memory.
Now that I have my own tree, sometimes my kids and I pick the leaves and cook them. Sometimes, I even have moringa tea.
The leaves are a little bitter, but they’re healthy. You can find dried moringa leaves online, but fresh is definitely…
