2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Proper nutrition is relevant and popular today, "live food" is at the height of fashion. Wheatgrass helps maintain the vitamin and mineral balance of the diet, gives energy, maintains youth, and stimulates the intestines. Information about the rules of purchase, germination, storage. We offer recipes for the diet and use for medical purposes
Where to get grain?
You can buy wheat for sprouting in supermarkets, pharmacies, health food stores, and diabetic products. Ordering on the Internet is no problem. When purchasing in rural areas, make sure that the grain has not been treated with chemicals. Such material, when soaked, creates a film on water, does not germinate within two days.
Germination rules
Wheat is not capricious and grows quickly, so do not take a lot of grain at once. Calculate so that you have time to eat the finished product in 3 days. So, let's say you took half a glass of seeds, sort them out, removing the husks, unripe, spoiled and broken. Flush, remove pop-up instances.
Fill with filtered water and leave uncovered for 6-10 hours. Drain, rinse again, place in any dish / container in a thin layer (1 cm). Place cheesecloth or cloth on top. Add water to just cover the wheat layer and dampen the cloth. Leave in a warm room and make sure it doesn't dry out. It is advisable to rinse twice a day. When the seedlings have reached the required volume (2-3 mm), they can be used. Rinse thoroughly in running water before eating.
Storage methods
The germ grains grow rapidly, if you do not want to eat the green mass, then you need to slow down the growth by lowering the temperature. To do this, drain the remaining water, transfer to a glass jar and cover with paper. Store without loss of quality in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Dishes prepared using sprouts - day at +10.
How to eat wheat germ
If you are just getting started with "live food", start with small portions. The body must adapt to the new product and accept it, so take your time and chew thoroughly during the meal.
For the first two days, eat a teaspoon at a time. On day 3-4, consume the same portion twice a day. If negative reactions do not occur, then your body liked the seedlings. Now eat and improve your health.
Remember that fresh seedlings will be most beneficial. Try to avoid heat treatments. Experts advise using the product on an empty stomach in the morning, with a break before breakfast of 15 minutes. If your goal is to lose weight, then wheatgrass can be substituted for breakfast.
Wheatgrass recipes for every day
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Healthy breakfast. Put in a plate 100 g of fruits (berries), 2 tbsp / l of germs, a little cinnamon, honey if desired, fill with kefir.
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Vegetable salad. For one serving, it is enough to cut a tomato into cubes, into strips - half a sweet pepper, half an onion. Add your favorite greens (cilantro, parsley, lovage, dill, etc.), some nuts. You can season with olive oil.
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Dessert with sprouts … Grind an orange with zest, add wheat, raisins, chopped dried apricots (dates, prunes), pine nuts, honey to this mass. You can take any fruit: banana, peach, apricot, etc.
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Oatmeal with sprouts. Pour boiling water / milk over the oatmeal. Let it brew for 5 minutes under the lid. Then you can slightly salt, sweeten and put sprouts, dried fruits, nuts if desired.
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Pancakes with sprouted wheat. Add 100 g of sprouts, an egg, a pinch of dried ginger, and a teaspoon of caraway to the grated mass of medium-sized zucchini. Bake in the oven and fry in a pan.
Application in medicine
Compresses, oil, medicinal infusions, compresses, ointments for joints, medicinal baths are prepared on the basis of sprouted wheat. Included in the diet with high cholesterol, slow metabolism, obesity. Recommended to stabilize the work of the main organs, in case of problems with the circulatory, nervous, lymphatic, and respiratory systems. It is prescribed to increase immunity, prevent atherosclerosis and prevent the development of oncology.
Sprouts are of particular benefit for improving the intestinal microflora, with unstable kidney and liver function, and the presence of inflammatory processes. Used for the treatment of baldness, resorption of polyps, fibroids, benign formations, fibroids, wen.
The germ oil is popular with beauticians. It is included in regenerating masks with the addition of yolk and yeast. The oil relieves inflammation, rejuvenates, cleanses. Helps get rid of cellulite, promotes the treatment of eczema, hemorrhoids, acne, dermatitis. In gynecology, they are cured of vaginitis, erosion of the cervix, and also treat mastopathy.
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