辣木的种子和叶子中含有丰富的营养成分。孙林晴(L.S. Ching)等人于二零零一年发表，100克印度传统辣木的新鲜叶片中的维他命E含量约为9毫

克，干燥叶片中的含量约为16.2毫克。根据计算，只要三汤匙(约25克)的辣木叶干粉 就含有幼儿每日所需270%的维生素A，42%的蛋白质，125%的

钙，70%的铁及22%的维生素C。对怀孕和哺乳中的女性而言，辣木叶片和豆荚亦可帮 助本人及胎儿或婴儿维持健康，供给大量的铁质、蛋白质、铜、

硫和维他命B。不过，由于辣木本身含有生物碱，高血压、糖尿病患者及孕妇等**经医师指示后酌量食用。

辣木叶片、果荚富含多种矿物质、维生素、20种氨基酸、46种抗氧素和36种自然防炎体和矿物质。每100克的辣木中含有的维生素C是柑橘的7

倍，铁是菠菜的3倍，维生素A是胡萝卜的4倍，钙质是牛奶的4倍，钾是香蕉的3倍，蛋白质是酸奶的2倍

It was Lady Carbury’s duty on the occasion to say pretty things to everybody. And she did her duty. But in the midst of it all she was ever thinking of
 
her son and Marie Melmotte, and she did at last venture to separate the girl from her mother. Marie herself was not unwilling to be talked to by Sir
 
Felix. He had never bullied her, had never seemed to scorn her; and then he was so beautiful! She, poor girl, bewildered among various suitors

, utterly confused by the life to which she was introduced, troubled by fitful attacks of admonition from her father, who would again, fitfully, leave her

unnoticed for a week at a time; with no trust in her pseudo-mother — for poor Marie, had in truth been born before her father had been a married
 
man, and had never known what was her own mother’s fate — with no enjoyment in her present life, had come solely to this conclusion, that it would
 
be well for her to be taken away somewher by somebody. Many a varied phase of life had already come in her way. She could just remember the
 
dirty street in the German portion of New York in which she had been born and had lived for the first four years of her life, and could remember too
 
the poor, hardly-treated woman who had been her mother. She could remember being at sea, and her sickness — but could not quite remember

whether that woman had been with her. Then she had run about the streets of Hamburg, and had sometimes been very hungry, sometimes in rags
 
— and she had a dim memory of some trouble into which her father had fallen, and that he was away from her for a time. She had up to the present
splendid moment her own convictions about that absence, but she had never mentioned them to a human being. Then her father had married her
 
present mother in Frankfort. That she could remember distinctly, as also the rooms in which she was then taken to live, and the fact that she was

told that from henceforth she was to be a Jewess. But there had soon come another change. They went from Frankfort to Paris, and there they

were all Christians. From that time they had lived in various apartments in the French capital, but had always lived well. Sometimes there had been

a carriage, sometimes there had been none. And then there came a time in which she was grown woman enough to understand that her father was
 
being much talked about. Her father to her had always been alternately capricious and indifferent rather than cross or cruel, but, just at this period
 
he was cruel both to her and to his wife. And Madame Melmotte would weep at times and declare that they were all ruined. Then, at a moment, they
 
burst out into sudden