Moringa Contains All Essential Amino Acids Your Body Needs

Few plants contain all the amino acids your body requires.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• There are 20 basic amino acids that make up the proteins in your body. Nine of them — histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, tryptophan, threonine and valine — are considered “essential” as none of them are made by your body and therefore must be obtained from your diet

• Moringa (Moringa oleifera), also known a…