What is Wheatgrass

So what exactly is wheatgrass and why are so many adding wheatgrass juice or other wheatgrass nutritional aides to their daily lives?

Wheatgrass is a plant of the genius Agropyron and the wheatgrass plant is very closely related to wheat.

While an unprocessed wheatgrass plant contains an extremely high concentration of cellulose, which renders it undigestible, processed wheatgrass juice and wheatgrass in powder or pill form has been said to be able to aid in the detoxification of the body as well as a number of other benefits.

If you decide to grow your own wheatgrass it is strongly suggested that you harvest it when it reaches about 7 inches because that is when wheatgrass is said to be at it's nutritional peak.

Many who decide to try taking wheatgrass start out only taking about one ounce per day because of the high nutritional content of wheat grass. Eventually most work their way up to taking around four ounces of wheatgrass each day.

One very interesting fact about wheatgrass is that it is gluten free. So those with an intolerance to gluten should have no troubles with taking wheatgrass.

The taste of wheatgrass can be unusual to some so many have used wheatgrass juice in combination with other fruit and vegetable juices with excellent results.

Wheatgrass is commonly found in health food stores, on the Internet and can also be grown at home. www.wheatgrass-kits.co.uk is an excellent online source of wheatgrass information and wheatgrass products.