Ho, May 15, GNA - The moringa plant has been identified as the panacea for correcting the effects of intractable poor eating habits among Ghanaians. It is ordinary and inexpensive but holds much more nutrients than the known and expensive food sources, Inge Dillen and Esther Van Stryp, Dutch volunteers promoting the plant in Ghana, made this known to the Ghana News Agency in Ho in the Volta Region, after a lecture at Mawuko Girls' Senior High School on the efficacy of moringa. The volunteers, who are collaborating with the Ho- based Nunya Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, said Moringa has four times more vitamin A, calcium, protein and potassium. Ms Van Stryp said Moringa known and used in India from time immemorial has more protein than meat and eggs. The volunteers said the importance of the plant had been corroborated in lots of research globally.

Madam Edem Klutse, Home Economics Teacher at the school said matrons should use moringa liberally to reverse the huge nutrient deficiencies in foods served in boarding schools.

She observed that diseases suffered by Ghanaians as a result of their poor intake of vegetables and fruits could be fought with regular inclusion of moringa.

Madam Klutse said every part of the tree from the roots to the leaves was a very useful and cheap food supplement. Mr Felix Clintson a member of the foundation said the body had started large scale cultivation of the tree known in some parts of the region as 'yevuti'. 15 May 10