Benefits

• Barley contains vitamin C.Vitamins C image by Mykola Velychko from Fotolia.com
  
  Barley grass contains vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, amino acids, proteins, active enzymes, phytochemicals and chlorophyll.
  
  

Significance

• Phytochemicals protect the body from free radical damage, which is caused just by daily living. The free radical theory says that the chemicals in our food and environment cause the atoms and molecules our cells are made up of to break down.
  
  

Healthy Eating, Healthy Living

• The benefits of chlorophyll include detoxification, ant-inflammatory, deodorizing and antibacterial. After one week of taking a barley grass supplement, many people report more energy, better looking hair, skin and nails, increased regularity and greater mental acuity. One of its purported benefits is that it promotes alkalinity in the body and some studies have shown that cancer cannot survive in an alkaline environment.
  
  

What it Doesn't Contain

• Barley grass supplements such as Green Magma and Barley Green come in powder form. It has no added sugar, fillers, colors, animal products, gluten, wheat, soy or yeast and it is non-GMO (not genetically modified).
  
  

Warning

• Don't mix Green Magma or Barley Green with hot liquid as the heat will neutralize the active enzymes.