GSE Organic Cereal Grasses

In the USA, wheat grass and barley grass juices have ceased to be an insider tip long ago. Many prominent actors and athletes post about their daily green juice in various media outlets. At first, you could only buy these in organic food stores and juice bars. But now they are so trendy that green juices are even offered in the coffee shops of the metropolises. Instead of coffee-to-go, more and more city dwellers are asking for a “wheatgrass juice”. In Europe too, wheat and barley grass now have the reputation of being a “green superfood”. Conveniently, these two grow right on our doorstep. Barley grass is nothing more than the young shoots of barley shortly after germination. Likewise, wheatgrass is nothing more than young wheat shoots that are simply cut off.

Wheatgrass is thought to have been used as a medicinal plant in Egypt and Mesopotamia as early as 5,000 years ago. The doctors and scholar of Ancient Greece were also very interested in cereal grasses. Unfortunately, their records of the use and effectiveness of grasses did not survive. Due to the fall of the Roman Empire, many ancient writings on medicine and herbal medicine were lost forever. It is likely that druids and herb women passed on the knowledge of cereal grasses orally. Only in the medieval monastery medicine did they start to appear in writing again. Hildegard von Bingen noted, for example, that people cannot digest fresh grass. It has to be pressed into juice or must be processed otherwise. In the classical Chinese art of healing, wheat grass has long played an important role in strengthening the body internally. Cereal grasses were used in a similar way by the nomads of Central Asia or the Native Americans. Their shamans used extracts from wild growing wheat grass for wound care.

In the western world, the potential of cereal grasses was not really known until the 1930s. At that time, the American agricultural researcher Charles F. Schnabel caused a sensation with a fodder experiment. He found out that chickens fed with wheat grass laid almost twice as many eggs as they did with traditional fodder. Schnabel discovered that wheat grass contains interesting amounts of minerals, trace elements and vitamins. Due to the large number of articles in medical journals, an enormous cereal grass hype began to take place. On the other side of the Pacific, the Japanese pharmacologist Dr. Yoshihide Hagiwara was responsible for the big breakthrough of barley grass. For decades, he examined over 200 different green plants. In doing so, he discovered a unique composition of valuable vital substances in barley grass. Because of this, it quickly became one of the most popular herbal supplements in Japan.

If you want to support your vitality with barley or wheatgrass, you can simply grow it in a flower pot on the windowsill. However, the stalks still have to be squeezed out afterwards. It's faster and easier with the organic barley grass powder and the organic wheatgrass powder from GSE. Both powders were designed for daily use and can be stirred into smoothies or juices. They are available in the sizes 120 g, 250 g, 500 g and in a 1 kg refill pack. For non-smoothie drinkers who also want to supplement their diet with the sweet grasses, barley grass and wheat grass are also available in tablet form. The tablets are available in bulk packs of 240, 500 and 2000. GSE cereal grasses contain the valuable vital substances of the whole plant in powder or tablet form.