Wheatgrass Information

Wheatgrass juice is a bright green juice pressed from the blades of young wheat and barley plants. There are many benefits of drinking wheatgrass juice. Additionally, wheatgrass nutrition is very potent and includes chlorophyll and antioxidant enzymes. Wheatgrass health benefits result from its concentrated nutrition.

Taste

The first time I tasted wheatgrass juice, the taste took me aback. Whoa! But it was so nutritious, so rich and invigorating, it felt like an infusion of vitamins and minerals like I'd never experienced. I couldn't wait to try it again.

At first, I mixed wheatgrass juice with canned pineapple juice. Now I dilute it only with water—I love the taste on its own.

How Much To Drink

The usual recommendation for health maintenance is to drink 1 to 2 oz. daily. People with health challenges drink this amount up to four times a day.

Forms of Wheatgrass

Freshly Pressed Juice

Or, you can juice your own in a wheatgrass juicer. (A wheatgrass juicer is designed specifically for wheatgrass. Other juicers or blenders will not work.)

To get wheatgrass to juice yourself, you can:

• Buy trays of fresh wheatgrass in a natural food store
• Order trays of fresh wheatgrass from a mail-order supplier
• Grow your own wheatgrass indoors

Frozen Juice

My full review here: Evergreen frozen wheatgrass Juice

Powdered Juice

Green Magma is a widely available brand of dried wheatgrass juice developed in Japan by nutrition researcher Yoshihide Hagiwara. Green Magma is barley grass juice dried onto a starchy carrier of maltodextrin and brown rice.

Powdered Whole Leaf

I find the taste of these products to be relatively bitter and would suggest adding whole-leaf products to smoothies, juice, or other food.

Amazing Grass is a brand of 100% wheatgrass leaf in powder and tablets. They also offer flavored "green drink" blends and energy bars, all of which contain whole-leaf wheatgrass.

Healing Resorts and Retreats

More Wheatgrass Information:
Books About Wheatgrass

Wheatgrass, Nature's Finest Medicine: The Complete Guide to Using Grass Foods and Juices to Help Your Health
by Steve Meyerowitz (Sproutman Publications)

This excellent book discusses wheatgrass nutrition, including some summaries of the original nutritional journal articles. There is detailed information on how to use wheatgrass to heal illnesses, including a collection of personal stories. There are very useful descriptions of wheatgrass companies, wheatgrass juicers, and healing resorts. Additionally, step by step instructions for growing wheatgrass at home are included. All-around complete wheatgrass information.

The Wheatgrass Book
by Ann Wigmore (Avery, 1995)

Ann Wigmore (1909-1994) was the founder of the Hippocrates Health Institute and the Ann Wigmore Foundation. An immigrant to the U.S., she used traditional knowledge of healing grasses and herbs to address her own health problems with young grasses. She developed indoor growing and sprouting techniques and popularized the use of wheatgrass juice. This book is less complete, but adds further wheatgrass information on nutrition and research. Techniques of growing wheatgrass at home are covered. Included are suggested recipes for wheatgrass and vegetable juice drinks and instructions for making the fermented health drink Rejuvelac.



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