Wheatgrass: Juice, Powder Or Capsules?

Wheatgrass: Juice, Powder Or Capsules?

Wheatgrass juicing at home had a surge of popularity when wheatgrass fans became broken-down at the price that some health food shops and cafs were charging for a modest 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 more 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 pay for the wheat grains and some earth and you have your very own fresh wheatgrass supply. Unfortunately its not absolutely that simple, however. First, growing wheatgrass at home is not all that easy. People maybe think of their bloom successes at growing cress and presume it will be plain sailing. Some green - fingered people have great accomplishment, but many find that a good number of the seeds do not sprout and they captain to grow a meager amount of wheatgrass, if any. Ungerminated wheatgrass seeds can generate mould which can be passed between plants and even produce loath reactions.

Presuming you have successfully harvested your homegrown wheatgrass, however, there is still the actual juicing apart to do. You could well find this more taxing than you had deceptive. In gospel, unless you have purchased a juicer made specifically for wheatgrass, you could find it honorable about impossible. Juicers made for fruit and vegetables work quickly, tearing up the fibres of the fruit or vegetables, being wheatgrass juicers work much more slowly, squeezing out the juice from the withstanding wheatgrass fibres. Many wheatgrass juicers are guidebook, although there are electric ones on the market, with neither type being suitable for juicing fact other than wheat grass. Wheatgrass juicing at home means buying a new piece of kitchen implements that has one sole use - not paragon for an enterprise almost aimed at saving money. Whence theres the energy expended, either in terms of electricity to power after all extended appliance, or the indubitable energy it takes to manually extract the juice ( sometimes multiple times over in cast to get enough ).

Little wonder, thence, that taking wheat grass in powder or capsule form has taken garrote. Buying wheatgrass powder is now easy thanks to the internet ( providing you secure your health food supplier uses quality organic wheatgrass ) and being quality wheatgrass powder has been dehydrated direct after reap, the nutritional hopped up is uncolored as capable as that of more 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 tidily 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 doubt. It very much fits in with an organic, holistic, self - effectual way of life. But the verisimilitude is, most of us smartly dont have the time ( and if were honest, the inclination ) to go to this pains, but may still want the health benefits of wheatgrass in our diets. In this plight, the handy powder and capsule forms are epitome.

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

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