The Internet is full of claims about the different uses of wheatgrass, other than drinking as a healthy juice. It’s hard to know what is actually factual and what is malarkey. We decided to do some experiments here at the Rhibafarms office. Our first experiment is to see if wheatgrass juice will relieve insect bites.
Melissa in our office was haveing an itch frenzy from her recent mosquito bites. That is her over to the right, looking frustrated with her mosquito bites. We juiced up some wheatgrass and applied it to a bandage. The bandage was taped onto her skin and left for about an hour. Melissa reported imediate relief and the itching subsided for about 6 hours!
Looks like this experiment was a sucess and itch relief can be added as another arrow into wheatgrass’s quiver of uses. Next post we will be taking up the challange of wheatgrass as a breath freshiner. Stay tuned.
One of the biggest investments when getting into wheatgrass is the juicer. Quality wheetgrass juicers start at about $300. That’s a pretty big investment for beginners. While doing some searching, I found an interesting method for juicing wheatgrass with a common household blender. We did an experiment with it here at RhibaFarms.
Now you have a cup of green juice and you observant readers will remember that this juice is mostly water. The best way to drink wheatgrass juice is as pure juice. So the next step was to cut more grass for the blender, then we added our freshly strained juice back into the blender. The idea is to keep doing this until the whole flat is juiced, that way the juice is as pure as you can get it using the blender. Pour yourself a shot and the remaining juice you don’t drink can be frozen and used through out the week.
