Wheatgrass Juicer

People started eating wheatgrass in the early 1900’s, more closely around 1930. Charles Schanabel, an American agricultural chemist tried to make the plant more popular by running a series of different tests and experiments on them.

The first set of experiments he did was in 1930, when he used fresh cut grass to try to revitalize dying hens. The hens that were close to death ended up recovering, and after their recovery, ended up producing eggs at a higher rate than usual. The following year, he repeated the experiment and achieved the same results.

After Schanabel tried promoting his findings, Quaker Oats and American Dairies invested millions of dollars to expand the research on this miracle plant. They wanted to invest to try to expand their quality and line of products for animals and humans.

By 1940, Schnabel’s powdered wheatgrass started to sell in a lot of the major drug stores in the US and Canada.