What is wheatgrass juice?

'Fresh wheatgrass juice is ... a veritable brew of water, oxygen, enzymes, protein, phytochemicals, chlorophyll, carotenoids, fatty acids and trace minerals all rushing to revitalize you' extracted from Wheatgrass Nature's Finest Medicine by Steve Meyerowitz, Sproutsman.

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Containing over 100 nutritional complexes fresh, high quality Wheatgrass juice is regarded by health professionals as a powerful raw, living super food with exceptional nutritional properties. It is the liquid derived from squeezing fresh wheatgrass through a specialist juicer. The grass itself comes from the common wheat plant (species: Triticum aestivum) when it is young, vibrant and full of rich green chlorophyll.

Wheatgrass was first identified in the 1940's as having significant nutritional value after Dr Charles Schnabel, an American scientist, led research studies in which he made direct nutritional comparisons of wheatgrass against other vegetables such as spinach, broccoli and alfalfa. Similar studies were also carried out by a Japanese pharmacist and medical doctor, Dr Yoshihide Hagiwara, which again highlighted wheatgrass and its sister grass, barley grass, as providing a wonderful balance of valuable nutrients, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, essential fatty acids and enzymes.

It was in the 1950's in America that Ann Wigmore first started juicing wheatgrass. Having suffered from ill health most of her early life Ann, using the principles taught to her by her grandmother, a self-taught naturalist, found that wheatgrass was the most nutritious of all the different types of greens she tried.

She modified an old cast iron meat grinder and by doing that, she created the first ever wheatgrass juicer! Ann went on to found the world renowned Hippocrates Health Institute in Boston where she worked with thousands of people over the years particularly specializing in helping people living with cancer. Click here to read more about this amazing story in Ann Wigmore's book.

Nutrition is at the heart of a healthy life. The foods we eat are the foundation of our health and good nutrition can enhance our wellbeing and help support the immune system.

Wheatgrass juice has for many years been highly regarded by health professionals for its nutritional and health properties. Wheatgrass has been referred to by some as a "rainbow food" or “perfect food” due to its vast range of nutrients that are integrated by Nature into a natural balance and potency unmatched by synthetic formulations.

Wheatgrass juice contains:

18 major vitamins including the B vitamin complex and B12 required for proper body function.
91 minerals in small amounts, such as magnesium, phosphorus, zink, selenium.
Over 80 enzymes. All help maintain health, digestion and detoxify the body.
One of the riches sources of precious chlorophyll on the planet! It is this key ingredient that wheatgrass's powerful energising effect is attributed to.
A highly alkalising food which may counter the over-acidity of processed foods
High level of antioxidants

D.E. Bircher, who researched the benefits of wheatgrass for many years, describes chlorophyll as "concentrated sun power".

Furthermore, the chlorophyll molecule in green plants is almost identical to the haemoglobin molecule in human blood. The difference being that the central element in chlorophyll is magnesium, whereas in haemoglobin it is iron. This means the body can readily take up the components in chlorophyll benefitting the blood and oxygen levels.

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