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Is Wheatgrass Juice all it's Cracked up to be?

Yes, it's true that many of the claims made of Wheatgrass juice are fabricated or pumped up.  However, some of the nutritional fact sheets don't have the necessary information for a person to base their decision off of. Regarding the below claim and statement from a skeptic found here:




The Claim (made by a third party)
It contains most of the vitamins and minerals needed for human maintenance, including the elusive B12

The Skeptics Comment
Sounds compelling! But it sounded less compelling when I turned away from the poster, and looked at the store's own nutritional facts chart. The only vitamins present in a 2-ounce shot of wheatgrass juice are 15% of your daily allowance of Vitamin C, and 20% of iron. The rest of the vitamins and minerals, "elusive B12" included? Zeros, all the way down the board. The bottom line is that a shot of wheatgrass juice offers far less nutrition than a single Flintstones vitamin pill.

If you look at Jamba Juice's nutrition facts for their wheatgrass shot which can be found at http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/foods… you will notice that many of the vitamins are marked with a "~" indicates missing or incomplete values. It doesn't necessarily mean the value is 0.
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The most comprehensive nutritional data I have found was done by Irvine Clinical Laboratories and can be seen in the source link I posted below.

In my opinion, wheatgrass is a great nutritional supplement, but doesn't have any significant advantage over other vegetables. It's just got some good vitamins and nutrients.

Jared Balis
Owner, Wheatgrass Place

Source(s):
Irvine Clinical Labs
http://skeptoid.com/episode.php?id=4006&%E2%80%A6

Wheatgrass Vitamins etc...
http://www.WheatgrassPlace.com

Comparison of Wheatgrass to Broccoli and Spinach
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatgrass