What is wheat grass?

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

• Weight loss- A compound called selenium in wheatgrass regulates thyroid gland to function normally. The thyroid gland controls your body weight. The morning dose of wheatgrass keeps you in fine shape.
• Checks food craving- Once you take a glass of wheatgrass in morning empty stomach or along with some fruits, you would not crave for the food. The vitamins and minerals packed in it check the cravings to eat just about anything.
• Detoxifies- High on nutrients and alkaline properties, wheatgrass is the perfect food for detoxification. Most of the nutritionists believe that alkaline food is best for staying healthier.
• Boosts Immunity- Wheatgrass improves red blood cells in the body, which makes it an excellent immunity booster.
• Good for heart and diabetes- Its nutritional properties controls heartbeat and blood sugar.
• Skin diseases treatment- It is an effective food to treat eczema and psoriasis through the local application.

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