Juicing Wheat Grass You've Grown

Written By Unknown on samedi 13 octobre 2012 | 04:16

By Larry Becker


Drinking the juice of fresh wheat grass is known to provide a boost to your immune system, thereby improving your health. By drinking the juice from wheat grass, it is possible to boost your immune system with a dearth of healthy nutrients as well as promote healthy cell growth and fight the growth of unhealthy toxins. To ensure you receive the wheat grass benefits you are seeking, you will need a juicing machine known as a wheat grass juicer because these are the juicers which extract the nutrients you require. You grow your own wheat grass at home for a super fresh juicing experience.

Grow it at Home Growing wheat grass is easy and it ensures you have access to fresh sprouts which is always important if you take advantage of the nutritional benefits of juicing wheat grass. You will need to soak the seeds in water first before you plant them, so take 500 grams of seed and soak it overnight or for 8 hours. You could of course soak them over the course of a day and then plant them at night. |If an overnight soak doesn't suit you, try soaking them in the morning and leave them to soak all day before planting them at night. For the best results, you will need a seed tray of optimum size 20 x 10 x 2 inches and some organic potting mix, preferably moist. After you have planted the seeds, cover the tray and place it someplace dark, and you will need to water them every day.

Grow Your Crop then Harvest It The tray should remain covered and in a dark place until the sprouts have reach 2" in height, which should take 2 -3 days, then move them into indirect sunlight until they have grown to be 7 - 8" in height. Your sprouts will generally take 4 - 5 days to grow this high. Try to avoid a humid environment if possible and you will soon find that 65 - 68 F is the best temperature for them to grow in. You can cut the wheat grass with scissors, directly above the soil. To make the most of the wheat grass benefits, you can plan for a regular supply once you have established a regular growing cycle of planting and harvesting.

Juice It You will need to juice the wheat grass as soon as you cut it and rinsed it. It may be that you won't want to use your entire harvest so you can keep it to use later in your refrigerator for a couple of days, but it must be in an airtight container. If you want to extract the maximum amount of nutrients from your wheat grass you will find the best juicing machine for juicing wheat grass is a masticating juicer. Food processors, centrifugal juicers and blenders should not be used to juice wheat grass because they oxidise the chlorophyll. If you hear someone referring to a wheat grass juicer, they are in fact referring to a masticating juicer. Half an hour is the most you can leave your juice before consuming it.

Common Issues Mold is the single most difficult problem that you will likely encounter so always be alert to it and don't juice any sprouts with it on. Always juice fresh green sprouts and remove any yellow ones beforehand so you don't introduce a different taste into your juice. Fresh is the key to a great tasting sprout. Always drink wheat grass juice immediately. Either drink the juice immediately or refrigerate it for half an hour because after this time the nutrients begin to lose their effectiveness.




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