The Barley Plant

The Barley plant is something referred to as barley grass or just plain barley. Barley’s latin name is Hordeum Vulgare, and it belongs to the graminae family, that includes wheat, rice and bamboo. While some healthcare practitioners, include the barley plant as member of the gluten grains group, which comprises wheat, oats and rye. Members of the graminae family are essentially free from toxic substances and are resistant against substances.

Barley can also be regarded as either “young barley” or just “barley”. The difference lies in the time of harvest of this plant. “Barley” leaves mature to a height of one meter and it contains about the same vitamins and minerals as that of green vegetables. The cause for this is the channeling of nutrients to across the entire length of the plant to the seed heads at this stage of its development. On the one hand, “young barley” leaves contain the most nutrients in the leaves itself as it grows to a height of 20-30 centimeters. This is because the nutrients are concentrated in the plant itself, before it enters the reproductive cycle of creating grain. Thus, this is the best period of its development to be harvested. This is type of barley leaf from which Green Power is created.

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