The leaves are cooked and used like spinach. Gram for gram, moringa leaves contains seven times the vitamin C found in oranges, four times the calcium and two times the protein found in milk, four times the vitamin A found in carrots, and three times the potassium found in bananas.Both dried and fresh leaves appear to contain a substantial amount of the magnesium, iron, folate, and vitamins B-6, A, C, and E young children need. Moringa leaves also appear to provide moderate amounts of calcium, magnesium, iron, thiamin (dried leaves) and vitamin B-6. Nutrients, Fresh leaves, Dry leaves, Leaf powder, Seed, Pods … of boiling, simmering and blanching to see the retention of nutrient content of moringa leaves.