11 Facts About Wheatgrass

Wheatgrass is the freshly sprouted first leaves of the common wheat plant, used as a food, drink, or dietary supplement.

Wheatgrass is served freeze dried or fresh, and so it differs from wheat malt, which is convectively dried.

Wheatgrass is allowed to grow longer and taller than wheat malt.

Wheatgrass juice is often available at juice bars, and some people grow and juice their own in their homes.

Wheatgrass is sold commercially as a spray, cream, gel, massage lotion, and liquid herbal supplement.

Wheatgrass is traditionally used in both Persian and Indian festivals and rituals.

Wheatgrass's taught that wheatgrass could be used to treat those with serious disease.

Wheatgrass's wheatgrass required 200 days of slow growth through the winter and early spring, when it was harvested at the jointing stage.

Wheatgrass claimed that at this stage the plant reached its peak nutritional value; after jointing, concentrations of chlorophyll, protein, and vitamins decline sharply.

Wheatgrass is harvested, freeze-dried, then sold in tablet and powdered concentrates for human and animal consumption.

Wheatgrass is a source of potassium, dietary fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin K, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B6, pantothenic acid, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, and selenium.