What is the difference between Tray Grown and Field Grown Wheat Grass?

Nutritionally speaking there is actually a quite a difference. First of all, any wheat grass is good for you. However, The tray-grown wheatgrass is usually grown in a warm greenhouse or indoors under fluorescent lightning. The grass will be harvested and juiced for consumption after 7-10 days of accelerated growth cycle. Because it grows so quickly in the warm conditions, the plant does not reach its full vegetative development for a maximum nutritional content. It has a relatively high level of simple sugars and simply is not given the time to convert these sugars into complex carbohydrates, vitamins, enzymes, and proteins.

Many consumers of the fresh juice do not realize that it is made of a plant that has not reached its full nutritional potential. Wheat grass grown outdoors in its natural climate has much higher levels of vitamins, minerals, and chlorophyll than tray-grown grass, due to vast differences in the growth process.

The accelerated growth in the tray-growing process also causes the plant to put most of its energy into growing leaves rather than roots. Thus very few minerals are absorbed through the roots to be utilized in producing the important complex nutrients.

Its rapid growth cycle produces simple sugars. People generally drink the tray-grown juice for therapeutic reasons and it’s purported energy boost. E-gaho winter organic Wheatgrass is grown outdoors in Australia, which has the most ideal climate for wheatgrass cultivation.

It is grown over three months through the winter. The visible grass grows very little until the spring, but the roots grow deep in our organic soil and have all winter to absorb the abundance of nutrients in the mineral rich organic soil.

There are significant differences in the nutritional profiles of the dehydrated whole plant powder and the fresh juice obtained from tray-grown wheatgrass, although highly regarded by many as high potency.

In fact, E-gaho winter organic Wheatgrass has every nutrient the human body needs to survive, except vitamin D, which is produced naturally by your skin from sunlight. It is known that a vegetables nutritional content is a direct result of the soil where they are grown.

Therefore the ideal choice is a organic cultivated whole plant powder, packed with all nutrients to support your body's antioxidant and nutritional needs.