Selection :While buying fresh pods look for just tender, uniform, evenly filled, green color pods. Avoid dry, shriveled, bent, twisted, or broken pods. Do not by over-mature big size pods as they feature tougher skin, bitter pulp and hard seeds and thus unappetizing.
Storage :At home, greens should be stored as any other greens. Pods can keep well for 1-2 days at room temperature, however, should be kept in the refrigerator for extended shelf life.
Facial care :Finally drumstick juice greatly adds to the glow on one’s face. Make a mixture of drumstick and limejuice and dab it on your face. You will find your face glowing greatly.
Skin care :Moringa is sometimes applied directly to the skin as a germ-killer or drying agent (astringent).
About the Vegetable : Moringa is a drought tolerant, medium-sized, evergreen tree that prefers warm, frost-free climates to flourish. DrumStick tree is a fast-growing, deciduous tree.The bark has a whitish-grey colour and is surrounded by thick cork. Young shoots have purplish or greenish-white, hairy bark. Taller plants bear cream-white, small size flowers in clusters throughout the season, which subsequently develop into long slender dark-green, three-sided, edible seedpods with tapering ends.The tree has an open crown of drooping, fragile branches and the leaves build up a feathery foliage of tripinnate leaves.
Scientific / Binomial name : Moringa oleifera
Popularly Known as :Munagakaya, Munakkaya, Hagilekayi, Moringa oleifera , horseradish, Moringa
Usage :
Famous for making sambars in southern Places of India.
Mostly in India, Andhra Pradesh,Karnataka,Tamil nadu People will use for sambar recipes and in Philippines, Thailand,Taiwan for making Drumstick soups.
