10 Reasons You should Eat Wheatgrass

7. Promote Healthy Cholesterol

We have shown wheatgrass antioxidants in animal studies to help prevent the buildup of harmful plaque in your arteries because of a high-fat diet.

Rabbits fed wheatgrass for 10 weeks had lower total cholesterol and higher HDL (“good”) cholesterol. Will it have the same effect on you? It’s impossible to say for sure, but incorporating wheatgrass into a healthy diet may help protect your heart.