Good morning everyone, and welcome once again to a wacky Wednesday, so today I am going
to present to you a fruit straight from the rock concert, the rocking fruit, you guessed
it right, it is the Drumstick, Drumstick, is the fruit of the super tree Moringa, Moringa
is the latest kid on the superfood blog, it has taken center stage, Moringa leaves are
known to have high amount of Vitamin C, much more than oranges, High amount of Vitamin
A, much more than carrots, Hight amounts of Iron, much more than Spinach, do you know
it has high amounts of calcium much more than milk.
So everybody is now queuing for the Moringa, or as we call in Marathi sivaga.
Yes, now what happens is because of the craze to on the superfood, we are taking out the
village of Moringa plant and not letting these wonder fruits grow, let me tell you as much
as leaves grow of a Moringa plant healthy, they can help beat Diabetes, they help with
constipation, they are great to fight cancer, they are great for lactation and mind you
every Indian mom, feeds Moringa leaves vegetable to her daughter whenever she comes for confinement,
it is an essential part of the lactating mother food in India, but equally good is the drumstick
or Moringa fruit, and I tell you this is, most the yummiest part, of a Moringa plant.
This fruit is a wonder fruit, because normally vitamin C is destroyed with cooking, but the
shell or the covering of a Moringa fruit protects the Vitamin C even during cooking, so when
you eat Moringa fruit or the Drumstick you get tons of Vitamin C, inside the fruit or
the Moringa seeds, these seeds have very good oil, which helps hair, and skin, and it is
the key to longevity and looking young.
Way even your when you age progresses, well.... there is a way in which Moringa Drumsticks
are peeled before cooking, so put in your knife, and you peel out this thick outer covering,
you see, this is the way to go, now those of my Indian friends who are watching this
thing, this is simple, but recently i have an non- Indian patient of mine, who needed
to use this, because, steaming with calcium, and therefore one of the good remedies for
people suffering from Austro Arthritis and Dermato Arthritis, but didn't know how to
use it, didn't know how to cook it, so here I am, showing you how to peel a Moringa fruit
or a Drum Stick, you can add it to your soups, you can add to your dhal, you can add it to
your curries, you can add to your sambar, growing up my mom would add to the fish curry,
I loved it, that time I was non-vegetarian, today I am a Vegetarian, so today morning
I cooked a dhal, with Drum sticks, ahhh.... the smell just Devine, now, there is the sophisticated
way of eating the Drum stick, you can take a fork, and open the drum stick, and there
is Drum stick seeds, steaming with the healthy oil, and the inside pulp which is full of
soluble and non - soluble fiber, which off course help reduce cholesterol and helps to
beat constipation, and of course vitamin C intact, after cooking, but there is rustic
way of eating, which is to take this, and let your teach do the work, now i tell you
the benefits of eating this, let me just enjoy this bit of my drum stick, then you take the
whole thing, and chew... kind of on like you chew on your chewing gum and stuck out the
juice, when you do this your exercising you jaws, you are exercising your teeth, you see
our modern food is too mushy, too soft so our teach and jaws do not get enough exercise,
so most of us we get temporomandibular or TM pain, or we have bad teeth, this is the
great way of exercising your teeth and exercising your jaws, while enjoying you yummy juice,
inside the Drum stick, not only that the skin or the bark of the Drum stick, has lots of
micro nutrients, when you chew on it, it release this micro nutrients into your body, what
we are forgetting it is not just the Moringa leaves which are the super food, it is the
whole Moringa tree, which is a super tree, the roots are healthy, the leaves are healthy,
the bark is healthy, the fruits are healthy and dried seeds are healthy and even the flowers
are healthy, growing up my mom made yummy, yummy dry vegetable from the flowers, yes....
we forget this and, in our craze, to eat more of the super food, we make capsules from the
leaves, these capsules we can go on injecting and take the big whole in our pocket, but
we have got it out of context, yes.... we really don’t know how much of that is going
to be absorbed, so if we are living in the tropical zone, if you are living, anywhere
in south east Asia or India, or any part of the world which has tropical climate, Moringa
can grow naturally, Moringa is an evergreen, doesn’t need a lot of care, in can go in
aired and semi-aired grounds, it doesn’t need a lot of water logging, in fact it hates
it, Moringa was an essential part of backyard gardens, in India and south east Asia, and
it used to be planted at the corner of the garden on the out ring, do you know why? because
as much as we love Moringa so do the caterpillars, so if you grow Moringa in your backyard, please
learn from the wise ancients, and plant it right at the end, by the way, Moringa can
also grow in pots, big pots, but remember to keep it out in your balcony and it is not
an indoor plant and enjoy the health benefits of its tender leaves, of its tender fruit,
of its solid seeds and even its flowers on that point Moringa has been used in the villages
of India today to beat the mal nutrients, because it gives growing up kids a lot of
calcium, a lot of iron and a lot of vitamin c and it is the key player in making the world
diabetes free, so have Moringa enjoy every bit of the Drumstick its leaves and its flowers,
thank you.