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Campbells getting in on the juice++ act with green tea and wheatgrass in this, and Gingko Biloba in another :)
The green tea powder creates fantastic trippy swirls when stirred up!
Campbell's V8 Plus: Cleanse is a delicious blend of fruit and vegetables with the added supplement of Wheatgrass & Green Tea. It has a great taste that you will love.
Nutrition Claims
* 1 serve of fruit and 1 serve of vegetables per 250ml glass
* No added sugar
* 100% Recommended Daily Intake of Vitamins a & c per 250ml glass
* 80%* RDI Vitamin A per 250ml glass
* Recommended Dietary Intake
* Some products may not be available in New Zealand
Photos:
- Front
- Back
SERVINGS PER PACKAGE: 4
SERVING SIZE: 250ml
AVERAGE QTY PER SERVING AVERAGE QTY PER 100g
ENERGY 421 kJ
(101 Cal) 168 kJ
(40 Cal)
PROTEIN 0.5 g 0.2 g
FAT - TOTAL 0.5 g 0.2 g
- SATURATED < 0.3 g < 0.1 g
CARBOHYDRATE - TOTAL 22.5 g 9.0 g
- SUGARS 19.8 g 7.9 g
SODIUM 43 mg 17 mg
DIETRY FIBRE 0.5 g 0.2 g
VITAMIN A 625 µg (80%)* 250 µg
VITAMIN C 40 mg (100%)* 16 mg
NRCS District Conservationist Garrett Larson checks soil moisture and root system of perennial mix in third year of monoculture conversion from crested wheatgrass. Sterling Ballbach chose to participate in the North Stillwater County Pasture Monoculture Diversification Targeted Implementation Plan, developed by the NRCS field office in Columbus based on local priorities. The purpose of the TIP is to renovate the monoculture pastures to a diverse mix of plants that allows for different season of use on these pastures. This option facilitates a grazing plan with more management options that helps to improve the health of native rangeland units. Ballbach property, Stillwater County, MT. July 2021
Campbells getting in on the juice++ act with green tea and wheatgrass in this, and Gingko Biloba in another :)
The green tea powder creates fantastic trippy swirls when stirred up!
Campbell's V8 Plus: Cleanse is a delicious blend of fruit and vegetables with the added supplement of Wheatgrass & Green Tea. It has a great taste that you will love.
Nutrition Claims
* 1 serve of fruit and 1 serve of vegetables per 250ml glass
* No added sugar
* 100% Recommended Daily Intake of Vitamins a & c per 250ml glass
* 80%* RDI Vitamin A per 250ml glass
* Recommended Dietary Intake
* Some products may not be available in New Zealand
Photos:
- Front
- Back
SERVINGS PER PACKAGE: 4
SERVING SIZE: 250ml
AVERAGE QTY PER SERVING AVERAGE QTY PER 100g
ENERGY 421 kJ
(101 Cal) 168 kJ
(40 Cal)
PROTEIN 0.5 g 0.2 g
FAT - TOTAL 0.5 g 0.2 g
- SATURATED < 0.3 g < 0.1 g
CARBOHYDRATE - TOTAL 22.5 g 9.0 g
- SUGARS 19.8 g 7.9 g
SODIUM 43 mg 17 mg
DIETRY FIBRE 0.5 g 0.2 g
VITAMIN A 625 µg (80%)* 250 µg
VITAMIN C 40 mg (100%)* 16 mg
Here's a great recipe from CK with Pines Beet Juice Powder and other wonderful vegetables and fruit:
So AMAZINGLY good that it made me sad to drink the last drop
The juice included:
parsley
apples
clementines
celery
red cabbage
ginger
Then I stirred in 2 tsp Pines Organics Beet Juice Powder from@wheatgrass_people
As always, #ckscooking :-)
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Left side parcel in its third year of monoculture conversion from crested wheatgrass monoculture pasture. The right side is still a crested wheatgrass monoculture. Sterling Ballbach chose to participate in the North Stillwater County Pasture Monoculture Diversification Targeted Implementation Plan, developed by the NRCS field office in Columbus based on local priorities. The purpose of the TIP is to renovate the monoculture pastures to a diverse mix of plants that allows for different season of use on these pastures. This option facilitates a grazing plan with more management options that helps to improve the health of native rangeland units. Ballbach property, Stillwater County, MT. July 2021
Marlies Roland / Esca Rose Agency
I shot with Marlies today on one of the finest days that Glasgow has seen for a while. More images to come from this and a blog in the coming days!
The first time I took a shot of wheatgrass I thought I was going to gag! So why would I ever want to grow wheatgrass? Refer back to my last post, ABC’s Of Juicing Wheatgrass: Benefits Of Wheatgrass. I must admit, I just didn’t do it right the first time, or the second time for that matter. ...
The area around Contact Nevada is distinctive in having many outcrops of granite boulders and consequently with sandy soils derived from the decomposed granite. With respect to cheatgrass invasibility, the sagebrush steppe in this area is like that around Wells where clayey soils predominate. That is, cheatgrass is most common along roads but occasionally found within sagebrush steppe.
My usual morning smoothie: a banana, some soymilk, hemp seed protein and a couple teaspoons of some green stuff (baby barley grass and wheatgrass).
Romeo & Juliet, Autumn Spice Carrot Cupcake, Chocolat Chic, and Coconut No. 5 cupcakes by Miami's Cupcakes Nouveau. 750 gumpaste flowers were hand-sculpted and painted. A 4-tiered cupcake stand was designed and built incorporating the couple's wheatgrass theme.
This particular type of dry warm interior Douglas fir forest is extremely rare, occuring on less than 1000 square kilometers in only 4 valleys in British Columbia that cut through the lee side of the Coast Mountains . It exists in a variety of age-classes from very young (following distrubances such as wildfire) to very old, with perhaps only 3-400 square kilometers of really old forest exant across the 4 valleys (Klinaklini, Homathko/Tatlayoko, Mosley, Chilko). These forests provide excellent habitat for Mule deer, red squirrels, grouse, black bears, cougars, and a huge number of other species. Other plants such as Soap berry (Shepherdia), Bluebunch wheatgrass (Pseudoroegnaria) and Balsamroot (Balsamorhiza) are characteristic here as well. This particular tree we "cored" using an increment bore. It is a drill-like implement by which you can extract a tube of wood from the tree from the pith (center) to the bark. From this sample, you can count the growth rings and determine the age of the tree. This individual tree shown here was well into it's sapling stage circa 1400 AD. About the same time that the Mongols were laying waste to Syria, Russia, Iraq etc, and the Inca empire was coming into its glory in Peru. It has lived through all of that, and everything since, here on this spot, without anyone cutting it down. It has survived at least one fairly severe forest fire, where the flames reached as high as 30-40 feet up the trunk. Possibly many more lower frequency ground fires have run through the area over the centuries as well.
This is the wooden and aluminum mould for my next project: Poem. It will be planted with wheatgrass but the object is to get it so root bound that the roots will actually keep their shape once taken out of the mould to create a living word.
Cheatgrass has surrounded and engulfed crested wheatgrass in Metzger Farm Open Space in Westminster and Broomfield, Colorado.
Cheatgrass has captured this area, but has not yet eliminated all other plants. This photo was taken across the hiking trail north of the covered picnic tables. The area by the picnic tables has become dominated by cheatgrass, with very few other plants. As shown in the next photo, the cheatgrass appears to be advancing north.
Crested wheatgrass is said to be more resistant to cheatgrass than are most other grasses. However, that just means that it takes longer to succumb. At this point, it appears likely that the cheatgrass will ultimately eliminate other plants in this spot.
This is one of a series of photos with pictures and information about cheatgrass.
Photograph by Jim Kennedy
To see the photos organized to tell the stories of what has been happening for the hawks, herons, turtles, snakes, and other wildlife and plants at or near Metzger Farm Open Space, go to www.flickr.com/photos/nature80020/sets/
Crested Wheatgrass is currenty the most common grass in Metzger Farm Open Space. It is a "bunchgrass" that grows in conspicuous clumps, as shown in the photo. This grass is usually 1 to 2 feet high in the open space and can be found throughout the open areas. The seed spikes are flattened and are initially dark green, but become lighter as they mature. The leaves are 1/16 to 1/4 inches wide.
Growing in clumps is an effective strategy for grass in dry areas, and also promotes valuable ecological diversity in areas limited by lack of water.
Crested wheatgrass was imported from Russia and widely planted for livestock forage in the western U.S. in the 1950s. It produces usable forage 2 to 3 weeks earlier in the spring than native grasses. It becomes dormant in dry periods and will begin growing again when rainfall occurs--which can produce forage in the fall as well as spring.
Crested wheatgrass out competes and replaces native grasses. It is viewed negatively by those who prefer native grasses, but it is much preferred to some invasive species--notably cheatgrass.
Botanical name Agropyron cristatum.
Photograph by Jim Kennedy
To see the photos organized to tell the stories of what has been happening for the hawks, herons, turtles, snakes, and other wildlife and plants at or near Metzger Farm Open Space, go to www.flickr.com/photos/nature80020/sets/
Campbells getting in on the juice++ act with green tea and wheatgrass in this, and Gingko Biloba in another :)
The green tea powder creates fantastic trippy swirls when stirred up!
Campbell's V8 Plus: Cleanse is a delicious blend of fruit and vegetables with the added supplement of Wheatgrass & Green Tea. It has a great taste that you will love.
Nutrition Claims
* 1 serve of fruit and 1 serve of vegetables per 250ml glass
* No added sugar
* 100% Recommended Daily Intake of Vitamins a & c per 250ml glass
* 80%* RDI Vitamin A per 250ml glass
* Recommended Dietary Intake
* Some products may not be available in New Zealand
Photos:
- Front
- Back
SERVINGS PER PACKAGE: 4
SERVING SIZE: 250ml
AVERAGE QTY PER SERVING AVERAGE QTY PER 100g
ENERGY 421 kJ
(101 Cal) 168 kJ
(40 Cal)
PROTEIN 0.5 g 0.2 g
FAT - TOTAL 0.5 g 0.2 g
- SATURATED < 0.3 g < 0.1 g
CARBOHYDRATE - TOTAL 22.5 g 9.0 g
- SUGARS 19.8 g 7.9 g
SODIUM 43 mg 17 mg
DIETRY FIBRE 0.5 g 0.2 g
VITAMIN A 625 µg (80%)* 250 µg
VITAMIN C 40 mg (100%)* 16 mgCampbells getting in on the juice++ act with green tea and wheatgrass in this, and Gingko Biloba in another :)
The green tea powder creates fantastic trippy swirls when stirred up!
Campbell's V8 Plus: Cleanse is a delicious blend of fruit and vegetables with the added supplement of Wheatgrass & Green Tea. It has a great taste that you will love.
Nutrition Claims
* 1 serve of fruit and 1 serve of vegetables per 250ml glass
* No added sugar
* 100% Recommended Daily Intake of Vitamins a & c per 250ml glass
* 80%* RDI Vitamin A per 250ml glass
* Recommended Dietary Intake
* Some products may not be available in New Zealand
Photos:
- Front
- Back
SERVINGS PER PACKAGE: 4
SERVING SIZE: 250ml
AVERAGE QTY PER SERVING AVERAGE QTY PER 100g
ENERGY 421 kJ
(101 Cal) 168 kJ
(40 Cal)
PROTEIN 0.5 g 0.2 g
FAT - TOTAL 0.5 g 0.2 g
- SATURATED < 0.3 g < 0.1 g
CARBOHYDRATE - TOTAL 22.5 g 9.0 g
- SUGARS 19.8 g 7.9 g
SODIUM 43 mg 17 mg
DIETRY FIBRE 0.5 g 0.2 g
VITAMIN A 625 µg (80%)* 250 µg
VITAMIN C 40 mg (100%)* 16 mg
"Starting the day just like I end it! With Pines WheatGrass! This smoothie has #wheatgrasspowder, #spinach, apples, carrots with a touch of #kale. If you don't want the powder, the tablets are great too! Just consume with your #smoothie."
Studies indicate that as many as 9 out of 10 people do not eat the three or more servings of #wholefood #vegetables that doctors and governments recommend. Studies show those who eat plenty of vegetables, especially dark green ones like the @greensuperfoods from #Pines, live longer and are less likely to become ill.
Beginning in 1932, Charles Schnabel discovered the nutritional density of #wheatgrass harvested at a special time in the early spring that occurs only once each year. He dried it, made it into a powder, packaged it in special oxygen-free glass containers and made the it available to doctors and hospitals. The resulting body of research inspired Ann Wigmore and Steve Meyerowitz, who encourage people to use wheatgrass as a food. Meyerowitz dedicated his popular book to Schnabel and called him, "The Father of Wheatgrass."
Instead of a tray, Schnabel grew wheatgrass outdoors in often freezing temperatures. Real wheatgrass is not grown in a tray with seeds 300 times too close and 7 times faster than natural with roots unable to go deep into rich soil. Such freakish plants result in a juice that is far-too-sweet with only 25% the nutrition of real wheatgrass and with high levels of mold and bacteria. Pines is the only company to follow Dr. Schnabel's standards.
#PinesWheatGrass is the only powder and tablets from Kansas grown by sincere #organic farmers using modern facilities built for organic human food rather than feed for the confined-animal meat industry.
Pines is a #vegan friendly company that does not use plastic containers. We are the only Kansas wheatgrass grown in appropriate areas with plenty of natural rainfall, not irrigation.
Pines Website: www.wheatgrass.com/
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Wild horses are pictured in an old burn scar in Butte Valley, about 45 miles northwest of Ely. Taken in late March, the photo shows crested wheatgrass sprouting amid the sagebrush and rabbitbrush.
In addition to six stores in Ohio, Fresh Thyme now has 7 new stores in Indiana, 5 new ones in Illinois, 4 new in Michigan and many more on the way in these states as well as Missouri and Minnesota. Fresh Thyme is new kind of natural food grocery that is taking over the Midwest. Fresh Thyme is on the move with large beautiful stores.
Fresh Thyme Farmers Markets believe you shouldn’t have to give away the farm to feed your body nutritious food. They are on a mission to improve the way we eat by offering fresh and healthy food at amazing values - all in a vibrant and fun shopping environment, with smiling friendly faces. Their stores don’t follow traditional grocery store design, nor do they have tall aisles or glitzy fixtures. In fact, the stores are so simple and easy to navigate that they don’t number their aisles or hand out store maps. They believe shopping for fresh and healthy food should be easy and enjoyable.
At all Fresh Thyme Farmers Markets you will find a full range of Pines' #green superfoods in amber glass bottles with special metal caps that allow Pines to remove the oxygen for a freshest bright green products possible. Fresh Thyme not only believes in low prices but also believes in good value. They know that Pines provides much more nutrition per dollar that poorly grown green foods that oxidize quickly in cheap plastic tubs or paper packets, even when these poorly packaged products are heavily discounted.
If you find yourself in any of these States, please check out these great new stores and their outstanding produce departments at the center of each store.
Fresh Thyme Worthington Facebook:
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Pines' Green Superfoods give you Green Energy for that race-winning boost.
Packed with protein and vitamins, just one serving equals a serving of a dark-green leafy vegetable.
Give your body the health it needs in tablet, capsule or powder form. Cook with it, eat it raw, put into smoothies.
Pines was the official green food of the Kona Ironman Triathlon and has been the top green food choice for athletes for nearly 40 years. That's because top athletes don't take shortcuts on nutrition, and Pines doesn't take shortcuts in growing, harvesting or packaging its greens.
Check out all Pines' Products; Pines Wheat Grass, Pines Barley Grass, Pines Alfalfa, Mighty Greens and Green Duo.
Introduced in 1976, as the world's first green superfood, Pines products have never been packaged using wildlife-destructive plastic containers but have always been packaged in earth-friendly, amber glass bottles with special metal caps to seal in an oxygen-free environment, which prevents the nutrient loss through oxidation that occurs with plastic containers and paper packets.
Pines green superfoods are available at quality natural food stores everywhere.
Please go to wheatgrass.com for a list of stores or to order directly online.
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Ready Juice Bar, Ready Coffee, 1562 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL, 60622
Cold and Flu Fighter: 1/2 of a Celery Root, 1/2 a Lemon, 1 Orange, 2 inch cut Ginger, and Vitamin Powder (Emergen-c), with a shot of Wheatgrass on the side.
CK Hall (@ckscooking) captured that rainbow in this picture and then mixed them all with two powerful antioxidant #organic dark green vegetables, #wheatgrass and #alfalfa in Pines #MightyGreens. CK is your Pampered Chef consultant, who works with a 35-year old company that provides cooking tools and recipe ideas to health-minded people through food and fellowship. Here is today's juice:
Amp'd Kitchen Sink Juice
Loving my products from Pines Organics@wheatgrass_people
Juiced:
Kiwi
mandarin oranges
celery
red cabbage
spinach
carrots
and 1 tbsp Mighty Greens whipped in with my mini whipper!
Feeling good. Feeling strong :-)
As always, #ckscooking :-)
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Pines Instagram: instagram.com/wheatgrass_people
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Pines Twitter: twitter.com/PinesWheatGrass
Pines Tumblr: pineswheatgrass.tumblr.com/
The Father of Wheatgrass: www.cerophyl.net/
The WheatGrass Girl's Twitter: twitter.com/WheatGrass76
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lately I have been experimenting with seeds. this is wheatgrass - and the tomcats love it, too.
I'm also trying to grow basil - and even if I really love winter, coldness, snow...I'm longing for some fresh green.
10things: fresh green!
This is what our foothills should look like but now rarely do.
Bluebunch wheatgrass (its scientific name is Pseudoroegneria spicata with synonyms that include Agropyron spicatum and Elymus spicatus and others) is a cool season, drought resistant, perennial native bunchgrass that should be in widespread use in landscapes (but rarely is).
Due to late summer moisture this year, each of these "bunches" has vigorous new growth at the base of their golden-dried flowering stalks (culms) of neatly tufted, and beautiful green leaves. Its appearance at this time of year is in general in stark contrast to the same scene four months ago.
Most of the native bunchgrasses like Bluebunch wheatgrass in starting their growth later in the spring hold moisture longer and are in that sense more "fire resistant" and highly beneficial compared to their exotic counterparts which grow faster and dry out much more quickly and therefore burn more readily and much hotter. Local genotypes of this species, and not Crested wheatgrass, should be used in appropriate locations for restoration purposes.
So, the Bluebunch wheatgrass dominance here is a very good and welcome sign and may also indicate that this location was not extensively grazed (and that might make sense since it would be difficult to access, at least by cattle, due to the steepness of slopes leading into the area that surround it) since Bluebunch wheatgrass does not respond well to heavy grazing.
And what may look like a monoculture is in fact not; the native grasses encourage diversity and a relative wealth of other native species co-occur here despite the harsh gravel substrate. This is in contrast to introduced, exotic grasses such as Crested wheatgrass which tend to exclude other species and yet the USDA and USFS continues to use and recommend it in disturbance-restoration projects (and has done so for decades).
Plants can have awns or be awnless; some taxonomists treat those forms as different entities but genetic research has shown that is controlled by a single gene and they should likely not be treated as separate taxonomic entities.
Oct. 18, 2014, lower Emigration Canyon, Salt Lake County, Utah, elev. approx. 5,725 ft.
Chocolate Cherry #Smoothie!
Ooh La La feeling spicy after BodyCombat
1-1/2 cup cashew milk
2 scps @drinkorgain #Vegan #chocolate #protein
1 tbsp dutch cocoa
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp tumeric
1/4 tsp ginger
1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
1-1/4 tsp Pines Organic Wheatgrass Powder from @wheatgrass_people
1 cup frozen cherries
Blend all these organic ingredients in a #Vitamix then top with 1 Tbs raw cocoa nibs.
Feeling good. Feeling strong :-)
As always, #ckscooking :)
CK works with a 35-year old company that provides cooking tools and recipe ideas to health-minded people through food and fellowship.
Avoid #GreenSuperfood blends in plastic containers. Not all wheatgrass is a beautiful dark green color like #PinesWheatGrass. Green #superfood blends with additives such as chocolate or spirulina, use the strong colors of such ingredients to disguise wheatgrass that can be more brown than green. Using Pines #WheatGrass and other single-ingredient products allows you see the color, note the aroma and other characteristics so you can judge the quality of each ingredient you use.
Pines does not produce complicated blends. Pines formulas are very simple, and all Pines ingredients are harvested at the right time and packaged in amber glass bottles with special metal caps. This kind of packaging allow Pines to remove the oxygen. That protects color and nutritional levels. Besides plastic tubs polluting our oceans and land fills, plastic does not protect green food nutrients from oxidation, which devitalizes sensitive #greenfood components.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wheatgrass is a food prepared from the cotyledons of the common wheat plant, Triticum aestivum. It is sold either as a juice or powder concentrate. Wheatgrass differs from wheat malt in that it is served freeze-dried or fresh, while wheat malt is convectively dried. Wheatgrass is also allowed to grow longer than malt is. It provides chlorophyll, amino acids, minerals, vitamins, and enzymes. Claims about the health benefits of wheatgrass range from providing supplemental nutrition to having unique curative properties, though few if any have been scientifically proven. Some consumers grow and juice wheatgrass in their homes. It is often available in juice bars, alone or in mixed fruit or vegetable drinks. It is also available in many health food stores as fresh produce, tablets, frozen juice and powder. Wheatgrass contains no wheat gluten.
History
The consumption of wheatgrass in the Western world began in the 1930s as a result of experiments conducted by Charles F. Schnabel in his attempts to popularize the plant.[1] By 1940, cans of Schnabel's powdered grass were on sale in major drug stores throughout the United States and Canada [2]
Schnabel's research was conducted with wheatgrass grown outdoors in Kansas. His wheatgrass required 200 days of slow growth, through the winter and early spring, when it was harvested at the jointing stage. He claimed that at this stage the plant reached its peak nutritional value; after jointing, concentrations of chlorophyll, protein, and vitamins decline sharply.[3] Harvested grass was dehydrated and made into powders and tablets for human and animal consumption. Wheatgrass grown indoors in trays for ten days contains similar nutritional content. Wheatgrass grown outdoors is harvested, dehydrated at a low temperature and sold in tablet and powdered concentrates. Wheat grass juice powder (freshly squeezed with the water removed) is also available either spray-dried or freeze-dried.
Proponents of wheatgrass make many claims for its health properties, ranging from promotion of general well-being to cancer prevention. These claims have not been substantiated in the scientific literature.[1] There is some limited evidence of beneficial pharmacological effects from chlorophyll, though this does not necessarily apply to dietary chlorophyll.[5][6]
There are a number of other small studies and pilots on the possible benefits of wheatgrass juice. According to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,[7] there may be a need for further study of wheatgrass therapy for ulcerative collitis; they cite a small pilot study which showed regular wheatgrass juice therapy significantly reduced rectal bleeding and overall disease activity.[8]
It has been claimed that wheatgrass helps blood flow, digestion and general detoxification of the body.[9] These claims have not been reliably substantiated, or are no different from similar vegetables. However, in one pilot study of children with thalassemia (a hereditary form of anemia which often requires blood transfusions), of the patients who were given 100 ml of wheatgrass juice daily, half showed reduced need for transfusions. No adverse effects were observed.[10] Another small study of transfusion-dependent patients suffering from myelodysplastic syndrome responded similarly to wheatgrass therapy; that is, the intervals between needed transfusions were increased. In addition, the chelation effect (removal of heavy metals from the blood) was studied for the same patients; the wheatgrass therapy showed a significant iron chelation effect.[11]
In another pilot, which was not placebo controlled, breast cancer patients who drank wheatgrass juice daily showed a decreased need for blood- and bone marrow-building medications during chemotherapy, without diminishing the effects of the therapy.[12]
The food has demonstrated in vitro cytotoxicity to HL-60 (Human promyelocytic leukemia cells).[13]
[edit]Nutritional content
Wheatgrass proponent Schnabel claimed in the 1940s that "fifteen pounds of wheatgrass is equal in overall nutritional value to 350 pounds of ordinary garden vegetables",[2] a ratio of 1:23.[3] Despite claims of vitamin and mineral content disproportional to other vegetables, the nutrient content of wheatgrass juice is roughly equivalent to that of common vegetables (see table 1).
Wheatgrass is also claimed to be superior to other vegetables in its content of vitamin B12, a vital nutrient.[citation needed] Contrary to popular belief, B12 is not contained within wheat grass or any vegetable, rather it is a byproduct of the microorganisms living on plants.[14] Analysis of B12 content in wheatgrass has confirmed that it contains negligible amounts of the compound.[15