is it okay to freeze your wheatgrass after harvesting it instead of refrigerating it?

Wheatgrass juice goes rancid much faster than any other green, and this may explain why grass is so fiberous, to stabilise it.

If l were you l would freeze other green juices and only have the wheatgrass fresh within 5 minutes of juicing.

Are you able to hook up a manual juicer outside permanently and just put some grass through it for some juice. Only take a few minutes. I used to have a permanent juicer outside all the time and never used to wash it, and l would put some grass quickly through it and have my juice every day. The juicer will eventually sieze up, but much better to make it convenient to juice grass than to freeze or store it.

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can you freeze the grass though? not the juice i mean the grass itself?

littlemisstwilight Wrote:
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> is it okay to freeze your wheatgrass after
> harvesting it instead of refrigerating it?

Yes. Juice it as soon as it thaws.

littlemisstwilight Wrote:
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> can you freeze the grass though? not the juice i
> mean the grass itself?

Grass is best cut at it's peak and put in a cloth in the fridge. It's actually better than juicing fresh grass past it's jointing stage. The high fiber of grass seems to keep the nutrients locked in for up to a week after it has been cut according to various sources.

Thank you!

The temperature of your freezer is important. If lightly frozen around 32 F it will not keep well. But hard frozen at the coldest setting on your freezer dial and all nutrients will remain well preserved for years. Cryogenic temperatures (liquid nitrogen) will preserve it well for millions of years.

I've wondered how drying the grass might work out. Ranchers and farmers do it all the time for livestock. Sure you lose some nutrition but it might still be pretty good. Something for traveling or sailing on the long passages. Or vacuum freeze drying?

brome Wrote:
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> The temperature of your freezer is important. If
> lightly frozen around 32 F it will not keep well.
> But hard frozen at the coldest setting on your
> freezer dial and all nutrients will remain well
> preserved for years.

That's true. Best to keep everything hard frozen at around zero degrees. Another thing that can be done is freeze and juice what's left of the grasses after juicing. Freezing and thawing can burst the cells juicers miss and the mass can then be juiced again.




> I've wondered how drying the grass might work out.
> Ranchers and farmers do it all the time for
> livestock. Sure you lose some nutrition but it
> might still be pretty good. Something for
> traveling or sailing on the long passages.


That's a really good idea!

I froze my wheatgrass in the freezer and asked awheatgrass growers if that's OK and they said no cause it will damage the grass and yes my grass got damaged at least I know for next time just to refrigerate it.

littlemisstwilight Wrote:
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> I froze my wheatgrass in the freezer and asked
> awheatgrass growers if that's OK and they said no
> cause it will damage the grass and yes my grass
> got damaged at least I know for next time just to
> refrigerate it.


What temperature do you keep your freezer at? How did you prepare and store the grass in your freezer? You know the best home food storage appliances chose the brand name Sub-Zero for a reason. The frozen grass cells will burst when they freeze but that doesn't mean they are nutritionally damaged.

*** Another thing to know for those who want to keep frozen food at it's peak nutrition - use a freezer that doesn't self defrost as that type's cycling on and off is murder on your food's nutrition and other qualities.



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i really dont know but they both told me not to put it in there and since their professionals i would think they know what they are talking about. They were right

littlemisstwilight Wrote:
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> i really dont know but they both told me not to
> put it in there and since their professionals i
> would think they know what they are talking about.
> They were right

Well your welcome anyway.