Few plants are as versatile as Moringa oleifera. This widely cited review, in the Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, surveys the plant’s many uses across nutrition, medicine and the environment.
It covers how moringa’s different parts supply proteins, vitamins and minerals with pharmacological and biotechnological potential — and highlights the seeds’ well-known role in water treatment.
What the review covers
- Moringa as a dense source of protein, vitamins and minerals with broad medicinal value.
- Its seeds in water and effluent treatment — coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation that reduce organic matter and microbial load.
- Applications in intensive animal production such as aquaculture.
Why it matters for MORIFA: This is an ideal cornerstone page: it ties together every market we serve (food, health, water, animal/aquaculture) under one authoritative review, and links out to our product and research pages.
Caveat: a broad review; consult the cited primary studies for specific figures.
Summary of: (2017). “Multiple uses of Moringa oleifera.” Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine. DOI: 10.1016/j.apjtm.2017.07.002. Summarised by MORIFA; full paper via the link above.