Wheatgrass: Juice, Powder Or Capsules?

Wheatgrass: Juice, Powder Or Capsules?

Wheatgrass juicing at home had a surge of popularity when wheatgrass fans became consumed at the price that some health food shops and cafs were charging for a minuscule 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 deeper 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 salary for the wheat grains and some earth and you have your very own fresh wheatgrass supply. Unfortunately its not wholly that simple, however. First, growing wheatgrass at home is not all that easy. People conceivably think of their adolescence successes at growing cress and presume it will be plain sailing. Some green - fingered people have great profit, but many find that a good number of the seeds do not sprout and they operate to grow a meager amount of wheatgrass, if any. Ungerminated wheatgrass seeds can prosper 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 uncherished to do. You could well find this more taxing than you had illusive. In actuality, unless you have purchased a juicer made specifically for wheatgrass, you could find it tried about impossible. Juicers made for fruit and vegetables work quickly, tearing up the fibres of the fruit or vegetables, owing to wheatgrass juicers work much more slowly, squeezing out the juice from the tenacious wheatgrass fibres. Many wheatgrass juicers are handbook, although there are electric ones on the market, with neither type being suitable for juicing form other than wheat grass. Wheatgrass juicing at home means buying a new piece of galley apparatus that has one sole use - not ideal for an exertion almost aimed at saving money. Thereupon theres the energy expended, either in terms of electricity to power somewhere spare appliance, or the corporal energy it takes to manually extract the juice ( sometimes multiple times over in orderliness to get enough ).

Little curiosity, ergo, that taking wheat grass in powder or capsule form has taken polish off. Buying wheatgrass powder is now easy thanks to the internet ( providing you lock up your health food supplier uses quality organic wheatgrass ) and now quality wheatgrass powder has been dehydrated up front after reap, the nutritional contented is due as useful 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 smartly 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 question. It very much fits in with an organic, holistic, self - wicked way of life. But the materiality is, most of us neatly dont have the time ( and if were honest, the inclination ) to go to this push, but may still want the health benefits of wheatgrass in our diets. In this plight, the handy powder and capsule forms are paragon.

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

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