The Health Benefits of Wheatgrass

Our healthy ingredient of the week should be very familiar to smoothie and juice lovers. Wheatgrass is young grass in the wheat family that grows in moderate climates throughout the United States and Europe. It is sold in a variety of forms from fresh grass to dietary supplements. Wheatgrass has been called one of nature's finest medicines. Its benefits are enormous. These include:

• Reduces high blood pressure
• Helps stop tooth decay
• Enhances hemoglobin production
• Neutralizes toxins and carcinogens in the body
• Cleans drug deposits from the body
• Purifies the liver
• Improves blood sugar disorders
• Improves the body's capability to heal wounds
• Helps digestion process
• Helps address the graying process of hair
• Removes heavy metals from the body
• Helps with acne
• Helps eczema
• Soothes sore throats
• Improves strength & endurance
• Purifies the blood
• Rebuilds the blood stream
• Enhances the action of the capillaries

If these benefits weren’t enough, it’s also a good source of some vitamins and minerals such as iron, calcium, magnesium, amino acids, chlorophyll, enzymes, phytonutrients, and vitamins A, C and E ¹ – all essential for a healthy body. Its popularity makes it a very common additive to smoothies.

Wheatgrass is available in a variety of forms including tablets, capsules, liquid extracts, and tinctures. And then there’s the old standby – you can buy the wheat berries, grow it yourself in trays, and then run it through a wheatgrass juicer. It’s surprisingly sweet. If you have celiac disease, gluten intolerance, or are allergic to wheat or grass, you should consult your doctor before using wheatgrass.

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