Today wheatgrass juice is heralded as being a healing juice because of the many health giving properties it has.
1. It contains high levels of protein, vitamins, minerals and enzymes.
2. It has high levels of chlorophyll that are believed to be a powerful blood builder and detoxifying agent.
3. It prevents the activity of carcinogens.
4. Just one 2 ounce shot of wheatgrass juice is said to contain the same amount of goodness you would get from eating 4lbs of fresh vegetables.
Wheatgrass juice is often a major food used to help restore a healthy balance in the body when people use a raw food based nutritional therapies. The juice contains essential nutrients which sustain human life and quite a lot of people report that it provides them with more energy when drank regularly. Because of the concentrated levels of nutrients in it normally one shot size glass is enough. Anyone can grow and then extract the wheatgrass juice for themselves at home for a few pennies each day.
Wheatgrass is a very fibrous plant so most household juicers are not well suited to juicing it, but don't worry. Today you can get manually operated wheatgrass juicers for as little as £25 and which provide you with the chance to enjoy this super food for yourself easily. The most common kind of juicer you can use to extract wheatgrass juice is a screw or auger type of masticating (means to chew up) juicer.
Hand operated wheatgrass juicers are popular not only because of their price, but they let you make only small quantities of this powerful juice at any one time. To use a manual wheatgrass juicer it needs to be clamped onto a work surface and then after a few minutes of using it you have a shot of the juice to drink.
If an electric motor is put on the end of an auger or screw kind of juicer it becomes a lot more versatile. It can also juice other fruits and vegetables and so the number of nutritional drinks it provides increases quite substantially compared to what a normal centrifugal juicer can provide you with. Models such as the L'Equip Omni or Samson 6-1 are both high quality wheatgrass juicers and are worth considering purchasing for your kitchen. As well as juicing a wide variety of fruits and vegetables they can carry out other food processing functions.
If you want a wheatgrass juicer that will provide the best results no matter what it juices, you should consider purchasing a twin gear masticating juicer. The Green Power Kempo or The Green Star are such juicers which crush what is placed into them between two closely fitting cylindrical stainless steel gears. Because of this more juice is extracted from the food along with a large portion of nutrients than compared to other household juicers.
Wheatgrass is in fact very easy to grow for you to then juice. Soak 250g of wheat berries in water overnight in a fridge. Next mix the grain with the same amount of compost before placing in a standard seed tray. After sowing water the seeds regularly and harvest when the first stem division is made they grass should be around 8 inches to 10 inches tall. After harvesting it can now be juiced.
On average a full seed tray of wheatgrass will provide a person with 6 days worth of juice. So if you have several seed trays on the go with the seeds at various stages of growth you will have a constant supply of the wheatgrass to place in your wheatgrass juicer.
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