How to Get the Most Out of Your Wheat Grass Juicer

Wheat grass is a form of wild grass that contains 70% chlorophyll, and a wheat grass juicer is a juicer designed especially to extract the juice from wheat grass. A normal juicer will not work as a wheat grass juicer because the tough natural fibers in wheat grass gum up the works of an ordinary machine. Luckily, a specialized manual wheat grass juicer can be purchased for as little as $50 to $120. Electric wheat grass juicers are more convenient to operate and faster to use, but they do cost more. An electric wheat grass juicer will run anywhere from $200 all they way up to as much as $800, depending on the make and model and on what else (if anything) it is designed to do.

Why drink wheat grass juice at all?

Wheat grass properties are unique and amazing. Wheat grass is so dense in nutrients that a singel serving is equivalent to eating 23 pounds of fresh garden vegetables. The composition of wheat grass juice is very close to the composition of human red blood cells, which is one reason why wheat grass juice is often recommended as a blood purifier and tonic. Drinking wheat grass juice helps red blood cells transport oxygen throughout the body, which in turn helps the body to rid itself of environmental toxins and helps to the muscles to develop stamina during physical exercise.

Wheat grass has also been shown to increase the level of the cellular enzymes that aid digestion and rejuvenate tissue. Some preliminary evidence suggests that wheat grass juice actually dissolves scar tissue and tumors, and for this reason wheat grass juice is often recommended as an alternative or supplemental treatment for cancer.

A good wheat grass juicer is necessary because human beings cannot digest the fibers found in the hardy grass. While you can just chew wheat grass to get at the juice (and then spit out the fibers), that isn’t an especially appetizing way to get at the powerhouse nutrients. Some of the more amazing wheat grass properties include more vitamin C content than oranges and twice as much vitamin A as carrots, 17 different amino acids (which are the building blocks of proteins), and 92 out of the 102 minerals that are found in soil. Wheat grass juice is an exceptionally rich source of B-complex vitamins, and also of vitamins E and K.

A good way to get started with your wheat grass juicer is to extract enough to drink an ounce of wheat grass juice per day, building up to two or three ounces if needed for therapeutic reasons. Wheat grass juice can be added to protein or breakfast shakes, or taken plan in a quick shot. (Because wheat grass juice has an intense though not necessarily unpleasant flavor, some people prefer to just chug the one ounce dose by itself like a vitamin extract or tonic.)

A wheat grass juicer can also be used to extract the juice for use as a hair treatment to encourage shine and scalp health, as an astringent skin treatment, as a treatment for blocked sinuses (place a single drop in each nostril), as a bath water treatment or skin treatment (add an ounce or two to a warm bath), or as an antiseptic for cuts and bruises.

Related links:

Anti Aging Foods: Look and Feel Younger with the Foods You Eat

Wheat Grass Juicer: How to Choose the Right One for You

The Wikipedia page about Wheatgrass