Cereal grass has been around for a long time thousands of years. The Chinese honored the healing properties of wheat grass as far back as 2800 BC. The Romans and Egyptians has similar ceremonies for worshipping cereal grasses and grains.
Cereal grass is the young green plant which will grow to produce the cereal grain. All cereal grasses, including the green leaves of wheat, barley, rye, and oats are nutritionally identical.
Human consumption of cereal grass has increased dramatically in the last fifteen years, but most people have no idea of what cereal grass really is.
These young grasses are, in their chemical and nutritional composition, very different from the mature seed grains. Several growth stages are required for the development of nutritionally complete cereal grasses.
Because dehydrated cereal compares favorably with other greens with respect to both nutrients and cost, it is an excellent and convenient source of green food nutrients.
Researchers began investigating the properties of the young green leaves of cereal plants in the late 1920s.
In the middle of the 1930s, Dr George Kohler of University of Wisconsin discovered that the higher nutritional value of milk in summer came from the grass that the cows ate in the spring and summer.
Dehydrated cereal grass was probably the first multivitamin on the market, appearing on pharmacists’ shelves in the late 1930s.
Cereal grass are rich in beta-carotene, vitamin K, folic acid, calcium, iron, protein, and fiber, as well as good sources of vitamin C, many of the B vitamins, and chlorophyll, with established antioxidant properties.
In addition, the cereal grasses were shown to contain unidentified factors which provide a variety of health, growth, and fertility benefits to animals and to humans.
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