About Wheat Grass

What is the history of human consumption of wheat grass?

Wheat grass can be traced back in history over 5000 years, to ancient Egypt and perhaps even early Mesopotamian civilizations. It is purported that ancient Egyptians found sacred the young leafy blades of wheat and prized them for their positive affect on their health and vitality. The goddess Isis is said to have brought wheat and barley grains to the people of Egypt from Lebanon. The tender young wheat grass blades were prized by Pharaohs and Aristocrats for it’s amazing affects on their health and vitality. The Book of Daniel in The Old Testament says that King Nebuchadnezzar (630-562 B.C.) ate only grasses for seven years. He claimed that his mental clarity, perhaps his sanity, was restored during this period, allowing him to again rule his kingdom.

In 1930 Charles Schnabel, a food scientist from Kansas experimented with a mixture of food that would increase chicken health and egg production in the winter months. After trying various mixtures of vegetables, grains etc in the chicken feed with none of it making a difference, he was nearly ready to give up. Noticing that hens searched out the young nutritious cereal grasses when available, he dehydrated wheat grass and oat grass and included it in their feed. He was amazed to find the cereal grass mixture boosted their health significantly. He stated in his research, “Even a child can see the bloom of health in the grass-fed hens.” Additionally, the Wheat Grass helped winter egg production go up 150% per hen! Further research revealed other remarkable findings…for example wheat grass was found to improve reproductive ability and milk production in cows. Even human infants whose mothers drank milk from grass fed cows, developed faster than other infants whose mothers did not consume milk from grass fed cows.
“15 lbs of wheat grass is equal in overall nutritional value to over 350 lbs of ordinary vegetables.”
–Charles F. Schnabel Wheat Grass and other cereal grass tablets were the nations best selling “multiple vitamin” and mineral supplements in the 1940’s. It wasn’t until the early 1950’s that it was dethroned by One-A-Day Multiple vitamins. These products capitalized on the movement towards technology and “better living through chemistry” became a popular slogan at the time. The thought was that “man-made” was better than “nature-made”. Technology created bigger fruit with plant hormones and more profits using fertilizers and pesticides. Although these techniques helped increase food production, it came at the expense of our soil, air, water and ultimately our health. Thankfully, there is current movement back to nature-made. As people begin to understand the environmental and health benefits from organic farming, small sustainable farms and more nutritive organic foods are gaining in popularity.

There is also a realization that vitamins and minerals are more easily assimilated by the body when they occur naturally in whole foods as opposed to fractionated into synthetic vitamins. In other words your body can’t process and utilize most of the unnatural combinations of nutrients in that synthetic multiple vitamin with 100 percent of everything.
We do know from over 80 years of research and thousands of testimonials that wheat grass nutrients are easily absorbed and your body does process them efficiently and regular consumption has a very postive affect on one's health.

In the 1960’s Ann Wigmore “re-discovered” wheat grass and was able to cure her own ‘untreatable’ colitis at the same time. She shared wheatgrass with several sick friends and each recovered from their sickness. She went on to found the ‘Hippocrates Health Institute’ based on the pricipal “Let Food be our medicine,” and treated countless people with serious health conditions.

Amazing Grass™ is available bottled as tablets or finely ground drink powder. Our single serving travel packets are the most convenient way to get your Amazing Grass on the run everyday. We’re convinced that our products will make you healthier—in fact, we’ll bet the farm on it! We think you’ll agree. Try the Amazing Grass 30 day challenge. Pay careful attention to how you feel mentally and physically before you start taking Amazing Grass. Take the recommended amount of our products twice a day for 30 days. If you don’t feel healthier, we’ll give you your money back.*


*Just kidding about betting the farm, Grandpa.