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Wheatgrass
grass grown outdoors. With a deeper green color than wheat. Wheatgrass is the freshly sprouted first leaves of the common wheat plant (Triticum aestivum), used as a food, drink, or dietary supplement. Wheatgrass is served freeze dried or fresh, and so it differs from wheat malt, which is convectively dried. Wheatgrass is allowed to grow longer and taller than wheat malt. Like most plants, wheatgrass contains chlorophyll, amino acids, minerals, vitamins and antioxidant enzymes. Claims about the health benefits of wheatgrass range from providing supplemental nutrition, anti-inflammatory effects, anti-oxiditative effects to having unique curative properties, but there is no good scientific evidence to support these uses.
Article summary
grass grown outdoors. With a deeper green color than wheat. Wheatgrass is the freshly sprouted first leaves of the common wheat plant (Triticum aestivum), used as a food, drink, or dietary supplement. Wheatgrass is served freeze dried or fresh, and so it differs from wheat malt, which is convectively dried. Wheatgrass is allowed to grow longer and taller than wheat malt. Like most plants, wheatgrass contains chlorophyll, amino acids, minerals, vitamins and antioxidant enzymes. Claims about the health benefits of wheatgrass range from providing supplemental nutrition, anti-inflammatory effects, anti-oxiditative effects to having unique curative properties, but there is no good scientific evidence to support these uses.
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Discussion questions
- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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