Wheatgrass in Smooties

[TheAvocadess]

Hello!

I know some of you put wheatgrass in green smoothies. Are you putting in the juice or the fresh wheatgrass itself? I didn't think you were supposed to eat the grass? Even if you chew it, I thought you were supposed to spit the fiber out. :confused:

Thoughts?

Love,
The Avocadess

[TheAvocadess]

I meant "smoothies". Ah ha! :o

[jessirose]

I have my first tray of fresh wheatgrass growing, and I was wondering the same thing! I'd been buying the frozen juice cubes at the HFS.

While on the subject, how much juice does a tray about 20x10 yield? Just wondering because it doesn't seem like it will be that much!

THANKS!

[TheAvocadess]

Let's see. I just made about 1/8 of a cup tonight and that took quite a bit of wheatgrass. My guess is that a regular flat may give 8 oz.?:confused: I'm not sure, but it takes a lot of grass!

Time to Google!

Love,
The Avocadess

[puzit19]

I've started growing some wheatgrass on my balcony...
and was wondering if you should actually drink the grass itself...

oh and.... :p I actually forgot to cut it from time to time.. so I've grew some wheat aswell...
Should I use it in the smoothies? how do you open it and take the seeds for use :| ? and should I use them just like that? green ^_^?

Thanks
Mary

[Raw Mom]

Here's Steve's answer on putting the grass in your blender
Steve Meyerowitz, in “Wheatgrass, Nature’s Finest Medicine” explains it this way…..”The wheatgrass juicer is actually a screw press. Unlike conventional vegetable juicers that tear or cut vegetable fibers into tiny fractions, the grass juicer presses and squeezes the pulp, much like wringing the wetness out of your laundry. Conventional juicers are simply not designed to handle the woody, ligneous fibers of grass and , besides, they operate at such high speeds, sensitive enzymes would oxidize immediately. Regular juicers destroy the nutritional value of grass, but that’s not all……Blenders are also unworkable. The green blades will wrap around the steel blades strangling your blender to death. Even if it survives, the high speed blades aerate and heat up the grass, and don’t make much juice anyway.”

a pound of grass equals 8-12 ozs, depending on the juicer. That is appx a 10x10 tray.

A 17X17 tray will yield 18 - 20 ounces

again, that is if you are getting the height and cutting it at the right time. When you see the second shoot appear.

If I can't drink all I've grown, I will juice it and freeze it in ice cube trays. The frozen you buy in the HFS, usually is second growth grass and grown outside in fields. Optimum, is fresh grown, juiced.

[TheAvocadess]

I thought so. I just a good amount of wheatgrass in my Green Star last night and really studied the pulp and WOW, incredible fiber and strong. Maybe someone can start making clothing out of it!

I usually add a few carrots when I juice wheatgrass and that helps to push the fiberous grass through. It's really tough stuff and I think I'll not put it in my VitaMix.:D I'd be hours trying to get it off the blade me thinks!

Thanks so much for the info. I guess the best think to do is juice it first, then add to a smoothie. I love that beautiful green color!

Love,
The Avocadess

[TheAvocadess]

Grass, it's not just for cows any more!

By Joshua Schmidt

That's right, although the wheatgrass craze is a bit past its apex, it's clear that its popularity is more than just a passing fad. Somehow, despite the fact that obesity is on the rise, the country is getting more interested in health. Now I could do an entire article on what I believe to be behind this dichotomy but for now trust me, they aren't related. Cows are fat for other reasons.

So once again this will be basic stuff for a great many regulars in this community but it's important to keep pulling in those who are just getting into this stuff. And because the whole Juicy Josh community is relatively new, I think the basics need to be laid out.

Some health enthusiasts believe wheatgrass to be the pinnacle of healthy living, going so far as to claim that 1 pound of wheatgrass is the nutritional equivalent of 25 pounds of choice vegetables. I wouldn't go that far. But there's solid evidence that wheatgrass is good for everything from fighting cancer (for a great documentary watch Crazy Sexy Cancer on TLC tonight, 8/30/07 at midnight) to preventing tooth decay. It is enormously rich in beta-carotene, the vitamins A, B, C, D, K, and E as well as many amino acids, such as lysine, tryptophane, and phenylalanine. But most importantly wheatgrass is one of the highest sources of chlorophyll. Chlorophyll strongly resembles the molecular structure of hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying protein of red blood cells and this is probably the reason it is so beneficial. Essentially it helps in clearing drug deposits from the blood, it counteracts and purifies toxins, removes heavy metals stored in our tissue, and increases the enzyme level in our cells. All this amounts to the rejuvenation and preservation of our vital system.

Not to mention it gives you quite an energy kick. Almost makes me want to MOO...


Be well,
Juicy Josh
877MyJuicer.com

[puzit19]

Not to mention it gives you quite an energy kick. Almost makes me want to MOO...


LoL ! Moo back to you ^_^ I adore drinking lil shots of wheatgrass - we got a few stands at the market place which makes you that juice in special machines...
I will try to get the lil one maybe used by hand and not electricity...and will not try the wheatgrass in my juicer :P
Thank you Raw Mom :)