Wheatgrass and cereal grasses are easily absorbed

After digestion of wheatgrass juice reduced the size of the particles in wheatgrass juice, which makes the nutrients more bio-available, the next step of nutrition is absorption.  Wheatgrass juice and cereal grasses are easily absorbed through the villus lining of the small intestine into the bloodstream, then transported throughout the body to the cells which will use the nutrients.  An important factor for this stage is the wheatgrass juicing quality.  The more powerful the wheatgrass juicer, the more of the nutrients will become liberated from the protection of the cell walls of the wheatgrass.

In other words, simply because wheatgrass or any other food contains nutrients does not mean that your body will get all of those nutrients from the food.  Your teeth and intestines must first digest the food to get it small enough so that the nutrients become bio-available.  Then, the nutrients need to be absorbed from the intestines into the bloodstream.

How much actually gets absorbed?  It is not easy to make accurate estimates, because there is so much individual variation.  Let’s examine the stages which lead to absorption.  If you consider that most food is grown in soil which is missing many minerals and other nutrients, and that probably 90% of nutrients are processed out of foods or destroyed in processing, transporting and storage, and that most people do not chew thoroughly, and that most people have low digestive enzymatic activity, and that most people have unhealthy intestinal walls, and that it is reasonable that about 90% of nutrients can be lost at each stage, then it seems apparent that only a small fraction of the nutrients in wheatgrass and other foods are actually absorbed into the bloodstream.

Of all of the different stages of nutrition, absorption from the intestines into the bloodstream is usually the most critical and where most nutrients are lost, simply not absorbed, left in the intestines to putrefy and be excreted.  For example, if you eat a handful of wheat grass and swallow it without chewing thoroughly, how much of the nutrients do you think you will absorb?  My guess is very little.   The most effective way to make the nutrients inside wheatgrass bio-available is by micronizing.  You can think of the blades of a powerful wheatgrass juicer or blender as like having millions of teeth which work very hard to make the nutrients bio-available for easy absorption.