I was at Booster Juice a month or so ago (for work, I’m a Public Health Inspector) and I saw something that made me wonder. It was a tray of grass. Just that, a tray of green grass, growing on top of the refrigerator. When I asked about it, they showed me the tray. Part of it had been clipped. I asked what it was and they told me it was “Wheat Grass” and that they make Smoothies with it. It’s apparently great for healing and detoxifying. DING DING DING, the warning bells went into overdrive.
They didn’t have any literature, but directed me to their website. Check it out, it’s hilarious. They state it’s more nutritious than 2.5 pounds of green, leafy vegetables. I pressed them on that point and they presented two studies, one that was admittedly small, and poorly blinded and showed minimal effect, the other was for putting the stuff on your feet and IT DIDN’T WORK! Their own literature showed that it didn’t work!
So…I put a complaint in with the Advertising Standards for false health claims. We’ll see how it turns out!
I was at Booster Juice a month or so ago (for work, I’m a Public Health Inspector) and I saw something that made me wonder. It was a tray of grass. Just that, a tray of green grass, growing on top of the refrigerator. When I asked about it, they showed me the tray. Part of it had been clipped. I asked what it was and they told me it was “Wheat Grass” and that they make Smoothies with it. It’s apparently great for healing and detoxifying. DING DING DING, the warning bells went into overdrive.
They didn’t have any literature, but directed me to their website. Check it out, it’s hilarious. They state it’s more nutritious than 2.5 pounds of green, leafy vegetables. I pressed them on that point and they presented two studies, one that was admittedly small, and poorly blinded and showed minimal effect, the other was for putting the stuff on your feet and IT DIDN’T WORK! Their own literature showed that it didn’t work!
So…I put a complaint in with the Advertising Standards for false health claims. We’ll see how it turns out!
Caveat emptor! If someone can sell something, they will. And of course, it’s organic.
If they get shut down, they’ll just claim that the Medical/Food bureaucracy is trying to silence those who have the health of the people as their only goal.
My wife and son drink it. I don’t know how much they charge for the crap. They got me to drink it once. It’s like F’ck this tastes like grass. Why in the hell would I want to drink juiced grass?
They’ll usually go to a juice place and order a double. I can’t convince them otherwise. I can’t understand how other people’s minds work sometimes. Just because they see it all over the place and people talk about how healthy it is, it must be so.
Now my wife wants me to do a coffee enema. I told her only if it’s a double mocha latte with extra whipped cream…
A coffee enema? Really? What is wrong with people? What kind of sane people want to have bitter, brown bean-squeezings water shot up their ass? “Why” I asks you? WHY?
What the hell is with this obsession people have with their poop and their bowels? It seems like every time I turn on the freaking TV there’s some ad for yogurt that makes you poop like a freaking robot. If it’s not yogurt (or some other dairy product) it’s some company hawking wares to improve your GI poop balance with superscience mystery hoodoo by variously shoving or shooting things up your bum. What the hell? What is it about people that causes so many of them to obsess over the idea that if you don’t poop every two hours on the hour you’re sick or dying or Pedobear approved or something. “Oh noez! I was four attoseconds late for my last scheduled poo session! I haz the cancer-making butt gnomes! NOOOOOEZ!!!”
I had a friend in California about seven years ago who always brought wheatgrass juice to the motorcycle track days. She insisted I try some once. I had the same reaction as Gnostikosis.
This is just more New Age mystical nonsense. It is natural, so therefore it has to be good for you.
A coffee enema? Really? What is wrong with people? What kind of sane people want to have bitter, brown bean-squeezings water shot up their ass? “Why” I asks you? WHY?
What the hell is with this obsession people have with their poop and their bowels? It seems like every time I turn on the freaking TV there’s some ad for yogurt that makes you poop like a freaking robot. If it’s not yogurt (or some other dairy product) it’s some company hawking wares to improve your GI poop balance with superscience mystery hoodoo by variously shoving or shooting things up your bum. What the hell? What is it about people that causes so many of them to obsess over the idea that if you don’t poop every two hours on the hour you’re sick or dying or Pedobear approved or something. “Oh noez! I was four attoseconds late for my last scheduled poo session! I haz the cancer-making butt gnomes! NOOOOOEZ!!!”
Your a riot DM! Most of those individuals quite likely get off on having things shoved up their butts. Aw well, whatever floats their feces.
My wife and son drink it. I don’t know how much they charge for the crap. They got me to drink it once. It’s like F’ck this tastes like grass. Why in the hell would I want to drink juiced grass?
They’ll usually go to a juice place and order a double. I can’t convince them otherwise. I can’t understand how other people’s minds work sometimes. Just because they see it all over the place and people talk about how healthy it is, it must be so.
Now my wife wants me to do a coffee enema. I told her only if it’s a double mocha latte with extra whipped cream…
I said the same thing when I tried it! Good response to the enema statement.
My wife and son drink it. I don’t know how much they charge for the crap. They got me to drink it once. It’s like F’ck this tastes like grass. Why in the hell would I want to drink juiced grass?
They’ll usually go to a juice place and order a double. I can’t convince them otherwise. I can’t understand how other people’s minds work sometimes. Just because they see it all over the place and people talk about how healthy it is, it must be so.
Now my wife wants me to do a coffee enema. I told her only if it’s a double mocha latte with extra whipped cream…
I said the same thing when I tried it! Good response to the enema statement.
I recommend French Roast. It has a certain savoir faire….......
The wheat grass has very little nutritional content. The best thing I can say about it is that it will not make them fat, the worst thing is that they are wasting their money, and if the wheat grass is ‘naturally’ fertilized and not well cleaned, they have a small chance of getting a nice e.coli infection….
I happened to give Trader Joe’s juice concoction a try, the ingredients looked real at least, no preservatives or dyes. They liquefied a dozen different fruits and veggies together, it was a fruity tasting drink in the end, but because of the greens (broccoli, spinach, wheat grass, blue-green algae, etc.), the mix was a opaque dark green, swampy looking really. Algae and grass… strange but I suppose I give them a try. I laughed as I drank it, tasty but so dark looking, and ironic contrast. It just tasted fruity to me.
I can’t drink any of those “all natural” hippie drinks. I think I just have an aversion to drinking anything that looks like it was dredged out of a drainage ditch.
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