Besides Kool-Aid Ecto Cooler, I was sort of ingrained with the idea that you just don’t drink anything that is green. You can eat it, but you just don’t drink it.
Back in the day, which was only a few years ago, I frequented a grocery store that had a juice bar. A number of people would show up their everyday, hold their nose, and get a shot of wheatgrass juice. Wheat grass fed cows live a lot longer than cows fed commercial feed or regular old run of the mill grass and hay. Wheatgrass has Vitamin C and Iron in it, but what else it does for humans is debated from curing cancer to just being another vegetable to add for variety. What’s not debatable is that it is an acquired taste. A small amount of people love it, the rest of the world thinks its quite simply ghastly. I am in the ghastly camp.
I was surprised to see Odwalla juice at Costco. Buying a big 64 oz jug was only twice as much as the tiny little individual bottles, so it was definitely a good buy. I don’t know what possessed me, but I bypassed the Mango Smoothie and other pleasingly colored juices and went for Superfood which is the dark color of a Haas avacodo. More properly, it is like when you make guacamole and it sits in the fridge for a few days and the top layer turns really dark. Maybe its closer to grass after the gray slush melts off of it. A two year old using every single crayon at once is also a good analogy of the color. In otherwords, it can’t possibly taste good. My decision to buy it was the dollar value and based on the nutritional value. Oh, and the fact that apple puree was listed higher than wheatgrass. That should be a taste buffer.
I let it sit on the bottom shelf of the fridge for a week, hesitant to try it. Yesterday I finally did, and I am happy to report that it does not taste like seamonster bath water. It is actually good and slightly sweet tasting, but slightly thick so someone won’t steal it and chug it down right from the container. It was met with hesitance when I got a few other people to try it. They were psyched up to think it was disgusting, so tasting it was an anti-climax. I recommend Superfood. Even if it won’t turn you into a superhero, it won’t give you that bizarre reflex you get in your digestive system the first time you drink straight wheatgrass.
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