article · Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
Moringa oleifera is recognised internationally as a valuable plant with widespread applications across the health, cosmetic, agricultural, and food industries. Its extensive nutritional and bioactive profile includes proteins, vitamins, minerals, lipids, flavonoids, phenols, and essential oils. These compounds contribute to documented remedial effects against diverse health conditions, including wounds, ulcers, allergies, obesity, diabetes, inflammation, and asthma. Beyond therapeutic uses, the plant features in food systems and bacterial fermentation processes, alongside broader industrial uses. Continued research is highlighted as necessary to further explore its botanical characteristics, antinutritional factors, and biosafety, as well as to discover additional applications that could benefit medicine and daily life.
Many communities rely on natural plants for nutrition and affordable healthcare. Understanding the complex biochemical composition and documented health benefits of Moringa oleifera helps clarify how everyday crops can address conditions such as diabetes, inflammation, and ulcers. Synthesising this evidence across agricultural, food, and medical sectors highlights the broader potential of plant resources to support human well-being and industrial development.
The documented properties support potential product development for food processors, cosmetic manufacturers, and pharmaceutical formulators targeting conditions such as diabetes and inflammation. Because the work represents a broad review synthesising existing knowledge on bioactive compounds, antinutrients, and biosafety, commercial applications remain at an early to intermediate stage of translation, requiring targeted product formulation and safety testing before widespread commercial deployment.
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Moringa oleifera is an important medicinal plant in several countries; for example, Nigeria, the USA, Turkey, Germany, Greece, and Ukraine. The abundant bioactive and nutritional properties of this plant make it useful in many and diverse areas of life, including the health, cosmetic, agricultural, and food industries to mention but a few. Research has found that the presence of proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, minerals, flavonoids, phenols, alkaloids, fatty acids, saponins, essential oils, folate, aromatic hydrocarbons, sterols, glucosinolates, and glycosides, among others, characterize the moringa nutrient profile and, as a result, give rise to its remedial effects on ailments such as wounds, stomach and duodenal ulcers, allergies, obesity, diabetes, inflammation, asthma, and so on. It is the aim of this review to provide an insight into such medicinal and pharmacological remedies attributed to moringa, stating both the past and recent discoveries. This review article also takes a look into the botanical features, bioactive compounds, antinutrients, food applications, bacterial fermentation products, biosafety, industrial applications, and other uses of moringa. Finally, with the belief that knowledge is progressive, we acknowledge that there are things yet undiscovered about this wonder plant that will be of value both to medicine and general life; we therefore recommend that research work continues on the moringa plant. © 2023 Society of Chemical Industry.
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DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.12892
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