Happy, Healthy and Long-live

“I hate green leafy vegetables mom”, that was the phrase that children used to say, rather the younger age used to say when they will be having lunch or dinner including vegetables on their plate. It is not considered as a good stuff there. I think that kids nowadays should eat more fruits and vegetables instead of eating too much junk foods. Our grandmother used to cook “Tinolang Manok” since we’re just a kid and up to the present. I want it to have more “Malunggay leaves”. The good thing is that it was a source of some added vitamins and energy that we need to do our daily tasks wisely. But still it was just like nothing happens when we eat malunggay because it has no taste. Before, we considered it just as green leafy veggie.

We all knew that eating the right kind of food like fruits and vegetables makes our body healthy, most especially our digestive system. Malunggay is also considered as “body sweepers” because they contain a lot of fibers which taken into our system that makes our body clean. Even though these kind of leaf is considered healthy, on the first place, kids do not really like to eat a lot of it, they think that eating too much veggie could kill them. However, some kids and most likely toddlers have their taste on eating these kind of vegetable, because at those age, they have the ability to eat soft food particles that was easily dissolved into substance although they have no complete teeth to chew the food well. Some children are amazing because in terms of food, they are not choosy on what they want to eat.

Malunggay, known as Moringa Oleifera, is a popular plant known for nutritional value as well as a herbal medicine. Malunggay is commonly and widely used as vegetable ingredient in cooking, as herbal medicine for a number of illness and other practical uses and mostly our grandmother helps us to cure illness when it comes to their grandchild because the want to protect us. The Malunggay plant can grow to as high as 9 meters with erect white trunks as I see through our owned malunggay tree outside our house. It also has white fragrant flowers that produces long pods with 3-angled winged seeds. It has been used as herbal medicine in many cultures for hundreds of years, Malunggay is known as a very nutritious plant where it is used to avoid malnutrition in third world countries like our country Philipines, especially for infants and nursing mothers.