Considered a superfood, wheatgrass is the young grass of the wheat plant. Due to its high nutrition content, it is used as health food and commonly consumed in the form of juice and powder. Wheatgrass contains a whopping 98 out of 102 earth elements. Wheatgrass contains no wheat gluten.

The consumption of wheatgrass in the Western world began in the 1930s as a result of experiments conducted by Charles F. Schnabel, an agricultural chemist, in his attempts to popularize the plant.

Wheatgrass is rich in choline and chlorophyll. It is rich in vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and enzymes. The health benefits of wheatgrass range from providing supplemental nutrition to having unique curative properties.

Wheatgrass juice is good for curing asthma, hair and skin problems and throat infection. It also cures constipation, improves digestive system, prevents diabetes and heart disease, tooth decay, detoxifies the blood, helps manage menopause and improves the overall health due to the nutrition. Chlorophyll in wheatgrass soothes and heals tissues internally and stops development of harmful bacteria in the body.

Wheatgrass is sold either as a juice or powder concentrate. Some consumers grow and juice wheatgrass in their homes. It is often available in juice bars, alone or in mixed fruit or vegetable drinks. It is also available in many health food stores as fresh produce, tablets, frozen juice and powder.

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Considered a superfood, wheatgrass is the young grass of the wheat plant. Due to its high nutrition content, it is used as health food and commonly consumed in the form of juice and powder. Wheatgrass contains a whopping 98 out of 102 earth elements. Wheatgrass contains no wheat gluten. The consumption of wheatgrass in the Western world began in the 1930s as a result of experiments conducted by Charles F. Schnabel, an agricultural chemist, in his attempts to popularize the plant. Wheatgrass is rich in choline and chlorophyll. It is rich in vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and enzymes. The h..