Wheatgrass: The Green Pasture for Your Health Well, not all grasses beautify lawns or gardens, some of them can be put into the blender to make juice or made into powder or capsules. Wheatgrass is one very special grass that purifies and beautifies your health. Experts claim that wheatgrass and its products can do wonders to your body, from relieving simple constipation to warding off more serious diseases.
Wheatgrass or Triticum aestivum is the young wheat plant found in some parts of the United States and Europe. Because it is easy to grow and can live both outdoors and indoors, wheatgrass is now being cultivated in countries all over the world for its healing properties. Because it is hard to digest, most people don’t like eating fresh wheatgrass. Instead, it’s being squeezed to make juice or dried to produce wheatgrass supplements. Wheatgrass juice is also being combined with water for enema for digestive cleansing. Wheatgrass is considered one the most famous superfoods in the market today. This young wheat plant is rich in essential nutrients including Vitamins A, B12, E, Calcium, Magnesium, Iron, and Selenium. In fact, the nutrient content of one ounce of wheatgrass juice is the same to that of one pound of fruits and vegetables. It also contains a very powerful ingredient called chlorophyll, the pigment that gives it its fresh green colour. Wheatgrass contains up to 70% chlorophyll, which can be compared to that of Red Blood Cells (RBCs) in humans. Just like how RBCs transport oxygen and nutrients to human cells, chlorophyll is needed to manufacture nutrients in the wheatgrass plant. However, research has proven that Chlorophyll can also benefit human health in so many ways.