What are its benefits and how can you grow some at home?
Wheatgrass is the healthiest food around. If you have not heard about wheatgrass yet, it means you are missing a super-healthy superfood. However, it is never too late to know about it, grow it, and enjoy its tremendous health benefits. Mostly consumed empty stomach in juice form in the mornings, wheatgrass works wonders on your body.
Nutrients in wheatgrass?
Wheatgrass is an amazing source of chlorophyll, vitamin A, vitamin C, and vitamin E. Moreover, wheatgrass contains 98 of 102 earth elements found in soil, that include phosphorus, calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, and essential enzymes with 19 amino acids. Wheatgrass is brimming with vitamins and liver enzymes also. The nutrients are the optimum one can expect from any food.
Amazing Benefits of wheatgrass
Wheatgrass can be grown at home
Wheatgrass is a young grass of a wheat plant Triticum Aestivum. It can be cultivated outdoors or in the trays or pots at home. When the leaves grow and split, it is the ‘jointing stage’, when nutritional value is at its peak.
written by Avni Kaul – Nutritionist and Wellness Coach
Avni Kaul is Founder of Nutriactivania with Masters Degree in Food and Nutrition from University of Delhi and is also a Certified Diabetes Educator from Project Hope and International Diabetes Federation. She is a Leicester Mammas Ambassador trained in Lactation Counselling with NHS United Kingdom. Mammas support pregnant and new mothers and their families. Specializations of Avni Kaul Include Infant and Young Child Feeding Practises, Pre and Post natal diets, Fat loss, Muscle Gain and Holistic Health and Nutrition