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Oxygen-Free Glass Bottles Protect Wheatgrass Nutrients
When Charles Schnabel and a team of scientists discovered the incredible nutrition in dehydrated whole food wheat grass in 1935, they insisted that the product be packaged in amber glass bottles with an inert atmosphere containing no oxygen. With the oxygen removed, nutrients are protected against oxidation and loss of potency. Despite any claims to the contrary, plastic cannot hold an oxygen-free environment. At a molecular level, oxygen can easily pass through plastic, but cannot pass through glass.
Only Pines still grows wheatgrass in the same location as Schnabel and is the only company to use amber glass bottles with the oxygen removed as the research indicated. The difference in color between wheatgrass in glass and plastic above is obvious. Pines wheatgrass is on the right, and a typical wheatgrass powder in plastic is on the left. The darker and richer the green of a food, the more nutrition that is in it. Oxidation slowly turns a dark green food from vibrant green to dull grey or brown. The darker green the wheatgrass, the more chlorophyll, vitamins, phytonutrients, and enzymes and the higher the ORAC rating (please see previous slide).
Only a glass bottle with a metal cap and a specially-designed seal can hold an oxygen-free atmosphere. Although plastic looks impermeable, it is not. If you look at plastic under an electron microscope, the space between molecules is wide enough for the easy transfer of oxygen into the bottle from the outside air. Filling a plastic bottle, bag or sack with an inert atmosphere of nitrogen sounds good but unless the walls of the container are steel or glass, the atmosphere between the inside and outside of the container quickly and easily mix.
Further, plastic is a petrochemical. Supporting the petrochemical industry perpetuates our dependence on fossil fuels. Packaging in plastic shows disrespect for a wonderful food like wheatgrass. The measurable loss of nutrients through oxidation shows disrespect for your body.
Paying a little less for plastic over glass is false economy. The plastic bottle on the left was produced a year after the Pines product on the right, but yet the color of the wheatgrass in the plastic bottle is grey while Pines Wheat Grass is still just as dark green as the day it was harvested. When cost is measured on the basis of nutrition per dollar, Pines Wheat Grass beats all the competition hands down.
Pines Wheat Grass is available at your natural food store or online at:
Website: wheatgrass.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/pineswheatgrass
Facebook: facebook.com/pineswheatgrass
Twitter: twitter.com/pineswheatgrass
Oxygen-Free Glass Bottles Protect Wheatgrass Nutrients
When Charles Schnabel and a team of scientists discovered the incredible nutrition in dehydrated whole food wheat grass in 1935, they insisted that the product be packaged in amber glass bottles with an inert atmosphere containing no oxygen. With the oxygen removed, nutrients are protected against oxidation and loss of potency. Despite any claims to the contrary, plastic cannot hold an oxygen-free environment. At a molecular level, oxygen can easily pass through plastic, but cannot pass through glass.
Only Pines still grows wheatgrass in the same location as Schnabel and is the only company to use amber glass bottles with the oxygen removed as the research indicated. The difference in color between wheatgrass in glass and plastic above is obvious. Pines wheatgrass is on the right, and a typical wheatgrass powder in plastic is on the left. The darker and richer the green of a food, the more nutrition that is in it. Oxidation slowly turns a dark green food from vibrant green to dull grey or brown. The darker green the wheatgrass, the more chlorophyll, vitamins, phytonutrients, and enzymes and the higher the ORAC rating (please see previous slide).
Only a glass bottle with a metal cap and a specially-designed seal can hold an oxygen-free atmosphere. Although plastic looks impermeable, it is not. If you look at plastic under an electron microscope, the space between molecules is wide enough for the easy transfer of oxygen into the bottle from the outside air. Filling a plastic bottle, bag or sack with an inert atmosphere of nitrogen sounds good but unless the walls of the container are steel or glass, the atmosphere between the inside and outside of the container quickly and easily mix.
Further, plastic is a petrochemical. Supporting the petrochemical industry perpetuates our dependence on fossil fuels. Packaging in plastic shows disrespect for a wonderful food like wheatgrass. The measurable loss of nutrients through oxidation shows disrespect for your body.
Paying a little less for plastic over glass is false economy. The plastic bottle on the left was produced a year after the Pines product on the right, but yet the color of the wheatgrass in the plastic bottle is grey while Pines Wheat Grass is still just as dark green as the day it was harvested. When cost is measured on the basis of nutrition per dollar, Pines Wheat Grass beats all the competition hands down.
Pines Wheat Grass is available at your natural food store or online at:
Website: wheatgrass.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/pineswheatgrass
Facebook: facebook.com/pineswheatgrass
Twitter: twitter.com/pineswheatgrass