A Double Shot Of The Green Stuff, If You Please
I’m planning on keep my feet nutritionally on the ground this festive season, having recently discovered the delights on Wheatgrass on a recent trip to Borough Market.
I fully admit that I can be a culinary slut. Despite knowing it’s so wrong, my head is easily turned by a juicy looking burger (rare please) and all manner of breaded delights. At the opposite end of the scale I’m a killer soup maker, and can take or leave chocolate, so I’m hoping that things even out in the dietary karma stakes.
My latest weapon in the effort to keep my slutty ways is a tiny shot of pea green liquid, peppery in taste and full of goodness. I am quite possibly late at coming to the Wheatgrass table, but now that I’m here I ain’t going anywhere.
The virtues of our green friend are endless. My favourite stat is that 30 mls of wheatgrass juice is the equivalent of 1 kg of leafy green vegetables. Secondly it has more vitamin C, kilo for kilo, than oranges and more vitamin A than carrots.
Helping to stimulate your body’s production of red blood cells, it can also help with normalise blood pressure and increase the amount of oxygen in the blood, making it a natural antioxidant.
Fabulously there are also claims that it also holds anti-ageing properties and can help make hair not only but thicker but shinier too.
Taken in either sachet form, or freshly juiced, for those not lucky enough to have a store specialising in juicing close at hand I’ve found Juiceland to be wonderful supplier.
At this rate, with luck on my side and a good north wind blowing, I might just survive this years festivities. Go on then, I’ll have another glass …