Cereal Grass Juice Highly Alkaline
Wheat grass juice or cereal grass juices (barley, spelt, etc.) contain all the essential amino acids. Sometimes a stop at a local juice bar will allow one to purchase freshly prepared wheatgrass juice in one ounce containers. It is often served with a an orange slice; a quick bite to follow downing the juice. For travel, there are also flash frozen powders available.
A deficiency of just one amino acid can result in allergies, low energy, sluggish digestion, poor resistance to infection, and premature aging. Wheatgrass Juice contains 17 amino acids, lysine, isoleucine, tryptophane, phenylalanine, threonine valine, methionine, alanine, arginine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, glycine, histidine, proline, serine, and tyrosine. Before vitamins were manufactured, wheat grass was sold in little tins and promoted as containing all the vitamins needed at the time.
Is Wheatgrass wheat?
It's not yet real wheat; just chlorophyll and safe. Wheatgrass is really a wheat sprout. Once a seed starts to sprout it comes about naturally that this process will diminish the phytates. Phytic acid is an element that can cause problems for PKD'rs. This is a reason to soak nuts, seeds, grains, legumes, and beans. Soaking greatly diminishes (if not totally eliminates) much of the phytic acid. Phytic acid is the principal storage form of phosphorus in many plant tissues, especially in the bran and seeds. Phytates are not digestible to humans or nonruminant animals. It is not a source of either inositol or phosphate if eaten directly. Phytates makes unabsorbable certain important minor minerals such as zinc and iron, and to a lesser extent, macro minerals such as calcium and magnesium. On its way out of systems, these seeds pulls minerals from our cells. If you are going to grow your own cereal grasses, be sure it is harvested before the first jointing phase; before the little sprout splits into two.In nature, phytates surround the hull of nuts, seeds, grains, legumes and beans. These tender seeds are prevented from becoming digested when eating the seed as the hull contains phytates. Phytates are a protectant for the plant. The seeds come through whole and undigested. The entire seed can drop by the wayside and emerge into a new plant. For humans this means we can suffer indigestion when we consume beans producing gas and bloating from eating grains. These seeds can build up phytic acid in our systems. Sprouting or soaking these foods releases the phytic acid. The little seed thinks it is being planted and it is now able to release the phytic acid.
Wheat is one grain that even when it is made into flour, then bleached and put on the shelves for purchase, there still remains 95% phytic acid; wheat is a grain that contains the largest amount of phytates. Spelt does not have this. The Roman armies of olde took spelt pouches on their war journeys. Spelt sustained the conquering Roman Legions. Many individuals have a slight allergy to wheat. This manifests as a runny nose, or cough after eating wheat. This allergy is very common.
