Good morning, loves! I know I have been MIA for a few days. After celebrating our
7th Wedding Anniversary I have been busy preparing not only a video for this post but also photographing and processing a couple of
photo sessions [if you have been following my blog long enough you know that is my other passion in life]. After long weekend now I have stolen away a few moments to prepare this amazing post, to help make your Monday.
When I first started on the
Vegan Path I can honestly tell you that I knew little to nothing about wheatgrass as food. I was totally ignorant of the benefits this super plant has to offer too. To me it was just that-grass!
As the time passed I had learned that it was oh, so much more. I had tested different ways to drink wheatgrass juice. My favorite was by juicing it with Grannie Smith apple and adding Ginger to it. Mmmm... mmmm... GOOD! However, I personally did not and still do not have a proper wheatgrass juicer.
Since I did not have a juicer and still wanted to partake of what this miracle plant had to offer I tried blending it in my Vita-Mix, straining it and drinking it that way. For some reason, and it might be because I diluted it with water and did not add enough of other more pleasant tasting ingredients to it, I did not like the way I felt after drinking it. I also found it problematic to keep my grass from developing mold, since I have about a million other things on my plate every day.
So, what a girl to do? I still wanted wheat grass in my diet!!!
Why? Check out these facts about wheat grass.
Wheatgrass contains vitamins, minerals, enzymes, amino-acids (used to build proteins) and large amounts of chlorophyll.
Wheat grass consists of 70% chlorophyll. Why is this fact so amazing? Both chlorophyll (as in wheatgrass juice) and hemoglobin (red blood cells) are molecularly similar. The only actual difference is that the central element in chlorophyll is magnesium and in hemoglobin it is iron, so chlorophyll has been shown to build red blood cells quickly after ingestion.
The high chlorophyll content of wheatgrass also acts as a powerful detoxifier cleansing the liver, cells, tissues and blood.
Wheatgrass contains vitamin A, vitamin C, B complex vitamins, vitamins E and K.
Wheatgrass also contains over 90 minerals found in soil including calcium, Magnesium, Iron, Zinc, Potassium, Phosphorus and Cobalt.
Wheatgrass is a complete protein and provides the following AMINO ACIDS.
Abensic- anti cancer agent
Alanine- blood builder
Arginine- seminal fluid
Aspartic acid- energy
Glutamic acid- mental alertness
Glycine- energy
Histidine- hearing and nerve function
Isoleucine- growth in infants
Loucine- energy and nerve stimulation
Lysine- anti aging
Methionine- kidney and liver cleanser
Phenylaianine thyroid function
Proline- Glutamic acid absorption
Serine- brain stimulation
Threonine- digestion and assimilation
Tryptophane- skin and hair growth
Valine- brain/muscle coordination
Amino acids are the building blocks the body uses to make proteins. Protein found in meat, fish, eggs etc needs breaking down into amino acids before being built into protein [and by the way, animal protein cannot be fully digested by human bodies!]. Wheatgrass provides the body with the protein building blocks so there is no need to expend energy on breaking the proteins down into amino acids.
Wheatgrass is great for balancing hormones! [Sign me up for that!!!]
Farmers in the Midwest who have sterile cows & bulls put them on wheatgrass to restore fertility. (The high magnesium content in chlorophyll builds enzymes that restore the sex hormones.) And, people, if wheatgrass is good for a cow and helps her, it is good for me too [no joking here!].
Want MORE facts about wheatgrass? OK.
- Wheatgrass juice keeps the hair from graying.
- By taking wheatgrass juice, one may feel a difference in strength, endurance and health.
- Wheatgrass juice improves digestion.
- Wheatgrass juice is high in enzymes.
- Wheatgrass juice is an excellent skin cleanser and can be absorbed through the skin for nutrition.
- Wheatgrass implants (enemas) are great for healing & detoxifying the colon walls.
- Wheatgrass juice is great for constipation and keeping bowels open. It is high in magnesium.
- Wheatgrass juice can dissolve the scars that are formed on the lungs from breathing gasses. The effect of carbon monoxide is minimized since chlorophyll increases hemoglobin production.
- Wheatgrass juice reduces high blood pressure and enhances the capillaries.
- Wheatgrass juice can remove heavy metals from the body.
- Wheatgrass is an amazing CANCER FIGHTER because of all of the above listed qualities.
I hope that by now you are convinced that WHEATGRASS IS GOOD FOR US!
To solve my wheatgrass problems I went to the next best thing after being able to make fresh wheatgrass juice--buying and making a drink from raw organic wheatgrass powders. I found a couple of different brands and settled on one that I found most affordable at
http://www.mountainroseherbs.com/ [I get no kickbacks for mentioning them here-they are not even aware of my existence (sadly :( )]. The powder is fine, but a bit grainy for my taste to drink it by itself, so I add it to mys smoothies. Yeah for ingenuity!
Recently, however, my view on wheatgrass powder has been altered... in a positive way. A couple of nice people left a comment on my blog. Before approving the comment, to make sure it was not spam I headed over to their site [
Best Organic Wheatgrass], to make sure it was legit, and to see what they are talking about. After reading up on the information I wrote them to ask a few questions. As you know, I would never put a stamp of approval on a product without knowing first hand that it is indeed good for my readers. So, after a couple of e-mails Ken sent me a sample of their wheatgrass powder. I was determined to go through the whole container and see how I feel consuming it before considering doing a review. The product is called Easy Pha-Max Wheatgrass.
I finally finished my sample last week and... well, I LOVED IT! I am sad, however, that ran out of it :(
It comes in a box in small packets that can be easily taken ANYWHERE with you. All you have to have is a glass of water to dissolve it in and you have your wheatgrass for the day! They offer two different flavors/combos: plain, with just wheatgrass and wheatgrass with honey.
I also watched a video that was sent to me and checked out their fact. I saw their organic certification {I am a stickler for ORGANIC!}
Here is the cool part about their wheatgrass: they use not only the green part of the plant but also the ROOT that has many additional vitamins and nutrients. That's a bonus in my book!
The grass, after being grown for just the right number of days is harvested and freeze dried, which helps it keep more nutrients and insures that it stays RAW. It is then ground to fine consistency... so fine, in fact, that when you dissolve it in water, you barely taste any grains at all [if any]. I found it easy, once again, not having to add my wheatgrass powder to smoothies, if I did not want to but simply dissolve it in a glass of water and drink it in the morning and before going to bed.
But, you don't have to take my word for it... I recruited the finest tester of any product I know--my husband--to taste this wheatgrass powder. Watch to see what he thought of it.
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I personally enjoyed how I felt during the days I was drinking extra pleasant wheatgrass drinks. Extra energy!
So, you are thinking: "Wonderful to know that you enjoyed it, but so what?!" Am I right? Don't despair--I have a treat for you! Ken and Barb offered to give the two wheatgrass boxes [one is plain wheatgrass and the other one made with honey] to one lucky winner! The two boxes combined are worth $60!!!
So, I am sure that now you want to know what you must do to be entered into the drawing. It very simple, actually.
[You have to reside in the US to qualify!]
Please be kind and use at least your first name, so when I announce the winner I can sound nice too :)
1.
Leave a comment under this post and tell me why you should win this product and how it would make a difference for you [if you think it will]. Be as creative as you want to be with your story--I read all of them. This time around I WILL NOT be using a random number picker, so take your time and write something meaningful. I and my hubby will pick a winner! [It is much harder than trusting mr. random, but I think it is a great way to do it!]
2. To increase your chances of winning [and yes, it impresses me!]
sign up for my Newsletter and leave an additional comment. You can subscribe by visiting
this page, or, if you are on my blog, you can do it by filling out the form at the top of the blog, on the right hand side.
However, and I am kindly requesting this, please do not sign up only to unsubscribe a day or two after the drawing. When I send out Newsletters and spend extra time on researching and writing about any specific topic and I do it only for the benefit of my readers. It makes me VERY happy to know that the Newsletters actually get read :)
It is that simple!
If you would like to spread the love and make this post viral, feel free to post about it on Twitter, Facebook, or blog about it, or link to it from your blog. You will get a huge THANK YOU from me.
The drawing will be open all this week and will close on Sunday, April 25th, at 10 pm PST. The winner will be announced on Monday, April 26th. See you at the winning line.
PS: Almost forgot to tell you, and this is a BIG surprise, don't lose heart if you don't win this amazing package... Ken and Barb have come up with a way to let EVERYONE who enters this giveaway feel like a winner. That's all I am going to tell you. You will have to come back NEXT MONDAY to find out what exactly I mean by that and how it is going to happen. :)BestWheatGrass is also on Facebook, so if you are there, friend them up!
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