subject: How To Juice Wheatgrass [print this page] Wheatgrass has a lot of things that benefit you, enzymes, micronutrients, amino acids, and 70% chlorophyll. There are two complications with getting those good things out of the grass and into your body: Juicing wheatgrass can be difficult and consuming it can be, too.
How To Juice Wheatgrass.
Wheat is a grass. Lacking the a number of stomachs of a cow, humans can not eat it. We will need to juice it to extract what we want. This calls for equipment, specifically a juicer
* Do not employ a blender or food processor which requires a multi-stage operation to separate the pulp from necessarily diluted juice.
* A hand-cranked juicer will give you lots of exercise. It works fine, if you have the time, muscle, and a counter top that lets you attach the grinder. (Few modern kitchens do.)
* Practically any electric juicer is able to get juice out of your wheatgrass. If you use a juicer with a high-speed or multi-speed motor, you will have to cut the wheatgrass into very short length pieces before juicing. Otherwise, the juicer is likely to jam. With these higher speed juicers, the process is one of finely chopping the contents before straining. That generates surprisingly high heat--not the most effective approach to retain nutrients, still they will give you juice.
* The best way to juice wheatgrass (and pretty much anything else) is with a masticating juicer like the vrt 330 hd or Omega 8006. These appliances have one or two drill-like augers that press the contents tighter and tighter at low speeds (as little as 1% of the high-speed juicers). They neither bruise nor heat their juice.
A few related hints: For top quality juice, use scissors or a really sharp knife, so that you do not unnecessarily bruise the grass. You can get some more juice if you juice the pulp a second time. When completed, put the pulp on wounds as a compress, use it as a facial, feed it to your chickens, or compost it for a garden.
How to Consume Wheatgrass
Drink only small quantities of wheatgrass juice each time--no more than one ounce. The flavor is strong--frequently somewhat nauseating to beginners. Old hands say to drink it on an empty stomach. All but the most passionate advise diluting the taste. Plenty of recommendations have been made. A "sprinkling" of lemon or lime juice and a teaspoon of honey with or without a cinnamon stick comes closest to "pure" juice. Many others' suggestions boil down to having wheatgrass in a ratio between 1 ounce of wheatgrass juice and 4 to 6 ounces of something else. Some of the most frequent suggestions: carrots, apples, or both with or without cucumbers. One long-time consumer, who just can't take the straight taste, suggested a cooler comprised of an apple, a large cucumber, a peeled orange, 3 handfuls of wheatgrass, an inch or so of ginger root, and several basil leaves.
Explore--you will find your own ideal combination for juicing wheatgrass. If you begin with the appropriate juicer you can pass over your concerns about how to juice wheatgrass, and simply focus on how to get the juice inside you.
