Wheatgrass: Juice, Powder Or Capsules?

Wheatgrass: Juice, Powder Or Capsules?

Wheatgrass juicing at home had a surge of popularity when wheatgrass fans became whacked at the price that some health food shops and cafs were charging for a scanty shot of the green elixir. But now most people buy wheatgrass in the UK in powder or capsule form. Organic food supplement supplier Rainforest Foods ( http: / / www. rainforestfoods. co. uk / ) looks at the various ways you can take wheatgrass at home: as a homemade juice, as powder major to drinks or in capsule form.

One of the main attractions of wheatgrass juicing at home is that if you grow your own wheatgrass you need only wages for the wheat grains and some earth and you have your very own fresh wheatgrass supply. Unfortunately its not totally that simple, however. First, growing wheatgrass at home is not all that easy. People conceivably think of their teens successes at growing cress and presume it will be plain sailing. Some green - fingered people have great benefit, but many find that a good number of the seeds do not sprout and they oversee to grow a meager amount of wheatgrass, if any. Ungerminated wheatgrass seeds can establish mould which can be passed between plants and even produce susceptible reactions.

Presuming you have successfully harvested your homegrown wheatgrass, however, there is still the actual juicing single to do. You could well find this more taxing than you had mistaken. In actuality, unless you have purchased a juicer made specifically for wheatgrass, you could find it condign about impossible. Juicers made for fruit and vegetables work quickly, tearing up the fibres of the fruit or vegetables, through wheatgrass juicers work much more slowly, squeezing out the juice from the solid wheatgrass fibres. Many wheatgrass juicers are manual, although there are electric ones on the market, with neither type being suitable for juicing corporeality other than wheat grass. Wheatgrass juicing at home means buying a new piece of scullery kit that has one sole use - not prototype for an exercise halfway aimed at saving money. Therefrom theres the energy expended, either in terms of electricity to power in consummation heavier appliance, or the incarnate energy it takes to manually extract the juice ( sometimes multiple times over in symmetry to get enough ).

Little perplexity, in consequence, that taking wheat grass in powder or capsule form has taken garrote. Buying wheatgrass powder is now easy thanks to the internet ( providing you confirm your health food supplier uses quality organic wheatgrass ) and due to quality wheatgrass powder has been dehydrated fair after glean, the nutritional convivial is uncolored as emphatic as that of additional wheatgrass juice. All you need to do is add a teaspoon to water or juice once or twice a day much simpler than all those attempts at growing, harvesting and juicing! Or plainly take wheatgrass capsules ( usually between eight and ten capsules per day ) as you would with vitamin supplements.

There is something very appealing about wheatgrass juicing at home, theres no query. It very much fits in with an organic, holistic, self - telling way of life. But the actuality is, most of us smartly dont have the time ( and if were honest, the inclination ) to go to this application, but may still want the health benefits of wheatgrass in our diets. In this position, the handy powder and capsule forms are example.

Rainforest Foods sell high quality wheatgrass, as both powder and capsules, which is certified organic by the Blacken Association. It also supplies other natural food supplements such as barley grass, Acai berry, Maca and more. To sight the entire range, stopover http: / / www. rainforestfoods. co. uk /.

Editors Note: Contact Rainforest Foods via its website at http: / / www. rainforestfoods. co. uk /.