Benefits of WheatGrass?

[SwishTN]

What are your experiences with wheatgrass? Do you feel it is a necessary component of your daily diet? If so, what benefits do you see/feel? Do you believe it escalates detox?
Has anyone seen the mitigation or reversal of grey hair consuming it?
Thanks as always for everyone's input!
Lauri

[SwishTN]

Anyone....???

[flutterfly]

I had wheatgrass for two weeks at Creative Health Institute. I did not like it at all. I would have rather eaten earwax. But I saw many people that drank it over years that looked very healthy. I saw people that had been given up on by the Medical Dr's that were very healthy. Was it the raw diet alone or was it the raw diet along with the wheatgrass I can not say for sure. I know that I am physically healthy mysef without the wheatgrass along with my eating raw.
I don't think that anyone can say for sure. The people drinking wheatgrass seem to also eat raw.
There is my 2 cents for what it is worth. ;)

[Rawkinlocs]

:eek: Oh my...earwax Flutterfly?! Daaaaannngg...must be pretty bad 'cause I've tasted earwax (as a kid, of course) and...errr...ummm...it wasn't good at ALL! LOL!

I've never had fresh wheatgrass, but I did have powdered once and used to put it, along with spirulina (sp?) in my smoothies, and I didn't really notice much of a difference...nothing more than when I put kale and/or spinach in it...maybe because it was powdered and not fresh (?)

I'm a little scared to try the shot of wheatgrass after hearing about the taste...but some folks actually acquire a taste for it after a while.

If I ever did decide to incorporate it into my diet, I'd probably have to start out putting it in smoothies or mixing it with other juices until I got used to it before taking it straight up!

[flutterfly]

We were drinking 3-5 oz of it a few times a day. There are very few people that really enjoy it that I saw.
Yes,I think it is that bad Rawinlocs :(

[rawjojo]

Hi Swish,
Here are my comments on WG:
I have been taking shots of WG on and off for aboutt the past 9-10 months. Right now I am trying to be very disaplined and take 2-3 oz.. Once in the a.m. and again in the p.m.

I believe that raw food is the very best thing you can do for your body, however, I also believe that WG is the one of the very best things that you can use to supplement and detox with. You can get so many great nutrients from it. It has aided my detoxing quite a bit.

Now, about the taste, at first I thought I would choke if I had to swallow another ounce BUT as time has passed it has become much easier to tolerate. I actually don't mind the super stong taste very much (anymore). I wll say it is definitely an acquired taste but you do get the most benefit from it by drinking it on an empty stomach so that why I drink it solo. I have also noticed that it has helped my to transition to raw a little easier. The more natural that I ate it seems as though the taste got easier to take. I think the two go hand in hand.

One more thing, recently I have read a few reports about taking breaks from WG every now and then and so I am also doing that. I plan to take for a while and then lapse for a while and so on and so on.

I hope this helps you out Swish!
rawjojo

p.s. Are you growing your own? If so, how is that going?

[SwishTN]

Flutterfly.... You're killing me!! Earwax, definitely not something I want to think about!!!
Rawkinlocs, I have had in shots with other things at places like Wild Oats, and really liked it! So, it's a hard call as far as how you will feel about the taste.
Raw jojo... NO, I am not yet growing it. I want to, if it is something that would be very beneficial to me. But, if it is kind of hit or miss, or neither here nor there, I really don't think I want to bother! : ). I try to keep my life as low maintenance as possible, because I complicate too many things just by being!
Thank you for your input! I greatly appreciate it!
Lauri

[rawjojo]

Hi Swish,
Yeah, it took me a while to get the hang of growing it down to a science but now I am doing okay. AND, YES, the benefits are awesome. Good luck with what you pursue! Have a fabulous day!
rawjojo

[kaleboy]

the shop I get my shots from put a little bit of apple in with it which makes it taste better...

[lovenlife]

shots turn my hair grey...hahaha

I love WG....I am having it at home but mix it with other greens. Benefits...HUGE!

This is an excerpt from my Superfood Hd app:

Wheatgrass is best known as a prime source of chlorophyll (the blood of the plant) which oxegenates the bloodstream. It has been referred to as "liquid sunshine".Wheatgrass is used at many of the cancer treatment centers for cleansing, rejuvenating ahd healing the body.

Short list of benefits of wheatgrass juice:


• keeps hair from graying & removes dandruff.
• increases red blood-cell count and lowers blood pressure.
•washes drug deposits from the body.
• held in the mouth for 5 minutes will eliminate toothaches and will firm up and tightens gums.
• is an excellent skin exfoliant and can be absorbed through the skin for nutrition. Apply the wheatgrass juice on your body and let it stay for 10 to 15 minutes. Rinse off with water.
• can dissolve the scars that are formed in the lungs from breathing acid gasses.

•a natural source of antioxidants which helps repair damaged cells, rejuvenate aging cells, tighten loose and sagging skin.
• good for skin problems and improves complexion, treats acne, and removes acne scars.
• energizes and reduces fatigue, because the juice is immediately absorbed into the bloodstream and gives immediate energy.
•purifies the blood which helps to cleanse the kidneys, liver and urinary tract.
•contain loads of alkaline minerals that helps restore alkalinity and neutralize acid production in the body.
•the insoluble fiber in wheatgrass gently cleanses your digestive tract and promotes regularity.

• can remove heavy metals and other toxic (mercury, cadmium, nicotine) from the body.
• restores fertility
*can be used as colon implant for utilization
*used by natural practitioners to heal cancer patients

and a recipe I will share from app too:

Wheatgrass Swirly
2 oranges
1 banana
½ cup fresh berries
2-inch round wheatgrass
1-2 cups ice cubes
Juice orange in a citris juicer.
Make the wheatgrass (in an auger type juicer made for wheatgrass)
Add to all the other ingredients in the blender and enjoy the swirl!

[Miss Marie]

That sounds just like the benefits of Chlorella.

[lovenlife]

That sounds just like the benefits of Chlorella.

This is why: :) Wheatgrass is best known as a prime source of chlorophyll (the blood of the plant) which oxegenates the bloodstream.

[RONB]

What are your experiences with wheatgrass? Do you feel it is a necessary component of your daily diet? If so, what benefits do you see/feel? Do you believe it escalates detox?
Has anyone seen the mitigation or reversal of grey hair consuming it?
Thanks as always for everyone's input!
Lauri
Those that are toxic can not stand the taste or smell of wheat grass until they take it and start letting it heal their bodies. Those that complain about the taste are usually very toxic. It is a wonder food and if i could choose one food to live on and only that food it would be wheat grass. It has all the nutrients the body needs including amino acids. It cleans nourishes and heals the body all at the same time and is the ultimate raw food. As far as the graying hair thing I think that is a myth and would not bet on it.

[kaleboy]

Wheat grass juice is the highest source of chlorophyll known on the planet coming in at 70%. Chlorophyll has the same identical chemical structure as human blood except the internal ion of the chelated structure is Magnesium instead of Iron.

I'm not to sure about how red blood cells affect your health but I'm thinking the more of these new fresh ones and the cleaner and healthier they are the better off you'll be. So all the body has to do with Chlorophyll is to swap out the magnesium for iron and hey presto you have new blood cells. So anything green is good for this.

[blizzardfrisbee]

Good question asked and great infomation!! I want to grow some wheatgrass but haven't started yet.

[Rockgurl]

Does anyone know if those with a gluten intolerance can have wheatgrass? Is it actually derived from wheat?

[Arky]

Regarding the taste of wheatgrass, it's important to point out that not all wheatgrass tastes the same. If it's grown too quickly or not under ideal conditions, it may taste sickly sweet or extremely bitter. One needs to learn how best to grow it (for example, real SOIL, sufficiently DEEP soil to allow the roots room to grow, good quantities of minerals provided to the roots, good ventilation, sufficient spacing between the seeds, and natural non-direct sunlight are just a few vital ingredients for proper wheatgrass growing).


Also (although I do NOT agree with freezing wheatgrass juice) see the .pdf info sheet downloadable from:

http://www.dynamicgreens.com/wheatgrass-faq.html

...and search for 'true wheatgrass' on YouTube


...and:

http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/showthread.php?t=39933




But as far as homegrown wheatgrass goes, even the stuff grown 'properly', the simple fact of how fast it grows in a forced, small-tray environment means that it does not properly convert all it's simple sugars and thus it is almost unavoidable that homegrown wheatgrass tends to taste at least a little sickly-sweet.

http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/showthread.php?t=49534
http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/showthread.php?t=36617
http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/showthread.php?t=49101

http://wheatgrassgreenhouse.com/mold.html (good info but I disagree about growing grass in a greenhouse - I know it grows at it's best outside! ;) )


I should finish by saying that although homegrown wheatgrass does tend to taste pretty sickly by comparison with mature wild grasses, I still grow and consume it myself, from time to time, and it definitely IS as powerful as people say it is; it's remarkable stuff.

[Mary Kay]

I drink fresh grown wheatgrass just about every day during the winter. I do take some days off here and there. I rarely drink it straight, but mix it with things. Heck even water is better than straight. Then I enjoy it.

Mary Kay

[DebB]

I juice a small piece of lemon (about 1/8 of a whole lemon, rind included) in with wheatgrass and I find it cuts the sweet taste nicely. *Ü*

[Mary Kay]

Rockgurl,

No, there is no gluten in wheatgrass juice, so even sensitive people can ingest it!

Mary Kay

[proteus]

i wouldn't make a cult out of any one single superfood. yeah some foods such as chia seeds, wheatgrass, chlorella etc. are better than others but it is the diet overall that results in health - not any one food.

looking at a particular food as a pill that will take care of a certain health condition is precisely the kind of mentality that got america where it is today - in the gutter. if anything what you don't eat is more important than what you do. i don't believe any beings in nature ever suffered because they forgot to take their chlorella or missed a shipment of chia seeds.

that's what i like about supplements like pure synergy:

http://www.thesynergycompany.com/ps_ingredients.html

is that there are 60 ingredients in there with no apparent focus on any one of them. whether you think cavemen got it right or monkeys did they were certain to get a wide variety of food, and that should be the focus in the diet imho - variety.

[EZ rider]

Does anyone know if those with a gluten intolerance can have wheatgrass?
Gluten comes from processed food. Wheat Grass is unprocessed so it has no gluten.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten

[lgo1957]

shots turn my hair grey...hahaha

[SIZE="4"][COLOR="Purple"]and a recipe I will share from app too:

Wheatgrass Swirly
2 oranges
1 banana
½ cup fresh berries
2-inch round wheatgrass
1-2 cups ice cubes
Juice orange in a citris juicer.
Make the wheatgrass (in an auger type juicer made for wheatgrass)
Add to all the other ingredients in the blender and enjoy the swirl!

Why would you juice the wheatgrass first and not just blend it in with the smoothie? Wouldn't this save time and reap similar, if not the same, benefit?

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

What are your experiences with wheatgrass? Do you feel it is a necessary component of your daily diet?

Perhaps this says it best from the man with the most experience with such a food:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-PATGkxLlI&feature=related

[MyRedPanda]

I sprout it in an automatic sprouter, no soil required. I honestly love how it tastes and crave it if I don't drink it regularly. To me it tastes very vegetal, almost like matcha or something, but better. lol it kind of tastes like grass I suppose, but I quite enjoy the taste and energy acquired afterwards!

[Mary Kay]

lgo1957,

No matter how you make it --in the blender or juicing it, you cannot eat the pulp. therefore putting the wheatgrass juice in the blender with other things doesn't work, unless you want to squeeze out ALL the pulp from the other things.

The banana in the smoothie etc would thicken it too much to be able to strain it.

Think of cutting your hair and throwing it into the blender --that's what wheatgrass pulp is like! LOL

Hope this helps!

Mr. Raw --I listened to your link ---a good pep talk!

Mary Kay

[MysticTree]

I've never had wheat grass juice but often as children we would find a good looking piece of grass (rye or couch) and suck the juice and soft tissue from the bottom of the stem.

[MyRedPanda]

lgo1957,

No matter how you make it --in the blender or juicing it, you cannot eat the pulp. therefore putting the wheatgrass juice in the blender with other things doesn't work, unless you want to squeeze out ALL the pulp from the other things.

The banana in the smoothie etc would thicken it too much to be able to strain it.

Think of cutting your hair and throwing it into the blender --that's what wheatgrass pulp is like! LOL

Hope this helps!


Mr. Raw --I listened to your link ---a good pep talk!

Mary Kay


That is not true, I put all the WG in my smoothie and drink it and nothing bad has happened to me :) I used to think the same thing, so I juiced my WG fully before adding it to smoothies. But with a Vita Mix there IS NO PULP, lol its just juice. You have to add some water and fruits and stuff to make a smoothie, granted, but if you just add water and wheatgrass to the Vita Mix there will be no pulp left to strain, it liquifies everything. This is one of the main reasons I bought a Vita Mix, because I got tired of juicing my wheatgrass all the time.

[Mary Kay]

MyRedPanda,

I do believe you! But to get any real amount of juice requires a good mount of wheatgrass. You only get about an ounce of juice from a GOOD SIZE tightly compacted handful of grass.

I believe that there are very few people who would find even one good-sized handful in a drink to be palatable. And it is indigestible...But that is not to say that a little bit of indigestible fiber is bad for you.

Anybody else throw the wheatgrass into your smoothies in any fair amount? Just curious.

Mary Kay

[MyRedPanda]

I put about four cups of wheatgrass in the smoothie, maybe more.

[Mary Kay]

WHOA

Mary Kay

[Raw Angel Mom]

Perhaps this says it best from the man with the most experience with such a food:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-PATGkxLlI&feature=related

That was very interesting Mr. Raw. I saw another one with Dan Liferegenerator and he drinks it with coconut water. I have to try that

[MyRedPanda]

Yeah, it takes one week to sprout, one day to eat :eat:drool:

[manker]

I juice wheatgrass, Swiss chard and kale every morning and the first time I tried it I could barely get it down so I'd juice it with strawberries. Yesterday I ran out of strawberries so I had just the juice and it tasted fine! So you really do get used to it. I didn't have it today and ive been tired all day... I'm thinking that's why!

[Conscious Midwife]

Never juiced wheat grass at home its always gone straight into GAIA my vitamixer.:excited:

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

That was very interesting Mr. Raw. I saw another one with Dan Liferegenerator and he drinks it with coconut water. I have to try that

Yes, Dan is always fun to watch juice his grass and green drinks and naturally Brian is the man.

l juiced a huge amount last night. l drank 250ml straight. Didn't make me feel sick at all, it only energised me. :cheer:

l soak two cups of seed every night (makes two big trays) and either two cups of sunflower seeds (one large tray) or peas for soil based greens as well.

All the big guns have wheatgrass juice and sunflower greens each day, so l do too. :cheer: :cheer:

[Mary Kay]

...about actually drinking the whole thing...the fiber and the juice....sorry to dwell on this, MyRedPanda....but with ALL that fiber, I think you'd lose some of the nutrients to the fiber --it would get flushed away.

When you drink JUST the juice, you begin to abosrb the minerals/nutrients immediately, right in your mouth...digestion is not needed. Then, to boot, when combining the fiber, your body is TRYING to digest the fiber from the grass....

Just sayin'! Not trying to start an argument...LOL

Mary Kay

[Ilse W.]

The expert on Wheatgrass was Ann Wigmore. A couple of years ago I got a free download of one of her books in which she tells the story of her life. Wheatgrass played a large role in it, she would not have survived childhood without it. It's a fascinating story, but I can't find it right now to post it. It's on one of my old computers. Anyway, here is a great link to an awful lot of information on Wheatgrass. http://www.wigmore.org/miracles_wheatgrass.html
BTW, it's amazing to me how we can resurrect OLD (2004) posts!:excited: