How to Make Healthy Green Smoothies

Organifi Green JuiceWheatgrass is a grass food taken from highly modified leaves (cotyledons) of the common wheat plant, Triticum Aestivum. Grasses are the main food source for most life that is land-based. According to research studies, wheatgrass contains essential fatty acids, chlorophyll, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, amino acids and antioxidants, making it the most beneficial grass food of all these types of food. Health benefits include not only its powerful supplemental nutrients, but also unique curative abilities. Wheatgrass can be grown at home or can be purchased at juice bars and health food stores in tablet form, powder, as fresh produce or as a frozen juice.

Wheatgrass juice is a living food that is squeezed out of young cotyledons that are rich in green chlorophyll. Harvesting the plant for its potent juice is done when the grass has reached its nutritional peak. Plants are usually between 7 and 11 inches tall at this time and are filled with energy for powering the plant's next growth stage, which consist of a sudden growth spurt. By harvesting the plant before this stage occurs, the energy becomes captured in the wheatgrass. Once wheatgrass is in juice form, it must be quickly consumed or protected from oxidation, as this process occurs rapidly.