sweetness in homegrown grass

[jeff]

Hi, I bought some of your frozen wheatgrass juice about a month ago and I'm using it along with home grown.

I find that tray grown wheatgrass is so sickly sweet that even smelling it gives me the feeling that I want to spit it out or puke. I'm pretty sure it isn't a mold reaction because I've grown trays with virtually no mold by using grapefruit seed extract in the water/nutrients mixture. And when I cut it, I cut at least two or three inches above any hint of mold. I think it's a psychological reaction to the intense grassy sweetness.

Anyways, why does your grass completely lack that sweetness? I can drink a shot or two of your grass and I'm fine.

[Administrator]

Originally Posted by jeff

Hi, I bought some of your frozen wheatgrass juice about a month ago and I'm using it along with home grown.

I find that tray grown wheatgrass is so sickly sweet that even smelling it gives me the feeling that I want to spit it out or puke. I'm pretty sure it isn't a mold reaction because I've grown trays with virtually no mold by using grapefruit seed extract in the water/nutrients mixture. And when I cut it, I cut at least two or three inches above any hint of mold. I think it's a psychological reaction to the intense grassy sweetness.

Anyways, why does your grass completely lack that sweetness? I can drink a shot or two of your grass and I'm fine.

The wheatgrass juiced on the spot always comes from trays. In the trays, the root system doesn’t develop properly and the plant only grows up instead of down into the ground first and then up. This makes the lifecycle in the trays very short. As a result, the plant does not develop properly and the simple sugars are retained. In the outdoor grown plant, these sugars convert to complex carbohydrates which are much better for you.

Testing sugar amounts is done with a refractometer and measured on a scale called “brix”. Orange juice has a brix rating of 13. Wheatgrass juice from tray grown grass has a brix measurement around the same range as orange juice. 1 brix = roughly 1.5% sugar. This means the tray plant has about 20% simple sugar. Juice from the field grown plants measures 0 brix (0% sugar) and shows far higher nutrient levels such as 50% higher chlorophyll levels, etc.

In terms of the smell of the tray grass, you need to look deeper at the mold issue. Molds are almost unavoidable and often not visible to the naked eye. While you may not be able to see them, your nose is telling you all you need to know. Take a look at the pictures at the very bottom of this page which also shows you how to use your digital camera to see the molds.
http://www.dynamicgreens.com/dynamic...uice.html#mold

[jeff]

Thanks for the reply. I wish I were closer to your farm so that I could buy it locally without the need for expensive shipping. But even then, your juice tastes so much better and is so much more convenient than growing your own that it's worth it.