Green Foods


Wheatgrass and its immense nutritional value

What exactly is wheatgrass? As said by the Fall 2000 edition of the Creative Health Institute's bulletin, "Wheatgrass is a plant that is grown from the Red Wheatberry, which is a particular strain of wheat." Wheatgrass is often known as a "complete" food since it is full of considerable amounts of minerals, vitamins, enzymes and amino acids - many of the nourishing constituents required on an every day basis by the human body for good health. Consuming fresh wheatgrass juice is a lot like popping in a multi vitamin pill, but with the adding up of natural energy boosters. In fact, the nutritional break down, as said by an August 2003 email bulletin from the Creative Health Institute, is given below:

Calories, 22.0; Protein, 1.969; Moisture, 969; Carbohydrates total, 2.19; Magnesium, 23 mg; Ash, 0.0589; Zinc, 0.33g; Potassium, 1.469; Phosphorus, 75.2g; Calcium, 24.2 mg; Sodium. 10.4 mg; Iron, 062 mg; Vitamin B2, 0.13 mg; Vitamin B3, 0.11 mg; Vitamin B5, 6 mg; Vitamin C, 3.66 mg; Vitamin E, 15.3 IU; Folic Acid, 28 mcg; Lecithin, food 0.03 g; Chlorophyll, 42.2 mg; Choline, 92.4 mg; Aspartic: Acid, 260 mg; L-Arginine, 135 mg.

Wheatgrass juice is for the most part made up of chlorophyll which is the chemical that gives leafy vegetation the green color. In the plant body, carbon dioxide molecules are broken down by chlorophyll, creating and letting go oxygen that is taken in by all living beings. The chlorophyll molecule is more or less similar to that of the protein hemoglobin in humans and is said to add to the creation of hemoglobin in the human body when taken in. More amount of hemoglobin in your bloodstream results in blood that is richer in oxygen. Many cancer authorities assert that high levels of oxygen in the blood, as a result of taking in wheatgrass juice, might "slow down or stop the spreading of cancer."

Whether or not wheatgrass juice may possibly help out to put off or slow the advance of cancer, it has been made known to make better the immune system and hold back the desire for food. The Creative Health Institute recommends putting in wheatgrass juice to a person's diet little by little. Since the wheatgrass juice enzymes create a strong detoxifying act, taking in too much of juice at first might cause distasteful digestive effects, together with vomiting or diarrhea. The best way is to begin with only one to two ounces, and let the body get used to it, before you start consuming it in larger amounts. Wheatgrass juice by itself or in combination with other fresh fruit or vegetable juices, is supposed to be taken in more than a few times a day - if possible on an empty stomach to make sure of highest absorption of the important nutrients.

As with any major alteration in diet, we recommend you to seek advice from your physician prior to adding wheatgrass juice to your normal diet.