Just Barley a.k.a. Daily Green Boost
Organic • Raw •
Vegan
•
Gluten-free
Representative Nutritional Analysis
These amounts are
not intended to imply that these are the exact amounts that will be present
in every bottle as these amounts will vary because this is a product grown
in nature and not made in a lab. This analysis was done by an independent
third party and not by the suppliers of Daily Green Boost.
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VITAMINS MINERALS Contains trace minerals in varying amounts, including: Boron, Lithium, Molybdenum, Vanadium, Zinc, Cobalt AMINO
ACIDS pH 6.26 |
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Ingredients: Certified organic barley grass juice powder, dried using a cold temperature CO2 spray-drying process
Don's recommendations:
I advise a minimum of two heaping tablespoons a day (more if ill). This equals approximately 32 grams a day, which is about four bottles per month of Daily Green Boost.
Like most green powders,
the bottle will say to mix with water. But a watery liquid is treated
as water by the stomach, so the stomach will allow the mixture to pass
through it into the small intestines where it will zoom through to get
to the large intestines where water is meant to be absorbed. But the small
intestines are where nutrients are absorbed, normally from semi-solid
food that passes through it slowly compared to water (since water contains
no nutrients, there is no need and therefore no mechanism to make water
pass through the small intestines slowly). So, as with juices, you're
not getting as much nutrition out of a liquid meal as most people believe,
even though the nutrients are "concentrated" (a little known
fact about juicing that most people aren't aware of).
To get the most nutrition out of a green powder meal, I'd mix it with
solid food, like in a smoothie. Bananas make for a good combination.
Other tips for
maximal nutrient absorption: "Chew" each mouthful of smoothie;
don't swallow a smoothie quickly just because you can. Chewing is what
signals the brain to make digestive juices in the stomach, and chewing
mixes saliva with what you're eating, and saliva is involved in the processing
of fats and protein. So even if you're drinking a juice, don't consume
it as you would water. Swish it around in the mouth before swallowing.
If you feel you will look weird doing this, either consume your smoothies
and juices in private, or simply don't care what other people think. :)