5 Wheatgrass Juice Benefits

Wheatgrass--it has a definite reputation. Whether you look at the glass of brilliant green and sigh, "Ambrosia!" or wrinkle your nose and think, "Yuck!", you have heard wheatgrass is great for  you.

Basically, it is not only good, yet superb. Right here are five wheatgrass-specific juicing benefits --reasons why you should sip (or chug) this emerald liqueur. Note: wheatgrass benefits can just come from fresh juice. Because we cannot digest a grass in any form (raw or cooked) without taking away the cellulose, we can get the wheatgrass benefits just through juicing.

Benefit 1: Improves Nutrition. Wheatgrass is full of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, and chlorophyll which supply numerous protections through the body. Their focus in juice makes it much easier to get the quantities our bodies require.

Benefit 2: Detoxifies. There is evidence that wheatgrass juice acts as a chelating agent for iron in the blood. In English: it assists clean the blood of excess iron (and possibly other heavy minerals.)

Benefit 3: Builds blood. In investigations with patients who have a birth-condition causing anemia, utilization of around 3 ounces of wheatgrass juice day-to-day increased the time between transfusions for 50% of the patients. It apparently helps build hemoglobin--a close molecular look-alike to chlorophyll. Wheatgrass juice has in number.

Benefit 4: Helps fight cancer. Females undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer who drank wheatgrass juice required less of the blood- and bone marrow-building medications. This could be part of the general anti-oxidant protection of the juice, or an impact akin to Benefit 3.

Benefit 5: Helps prevent/cure some cancer: The chlorophyll in wheatgrass has shown toxicity to colonic cytoplasts in vitro--it kills colon cancer cells in the body--at least in some tests in rats. Diets with high red meat use have shown lower levels of cancer-causing cells in the colon when there's also high chlorophyll  usage.

So, sip it or chug it--love it, don't leave it. The many juicing benefits derived from wheatgrass make its flavor irrelevant. Aside from, it is always so pretty!