International Lifestyle Magazine Issue 56 | Page 42

GO GREEN

H a n d s U p W h o’s
for Wheatgrass?

It’s often said that necessity ‘is the mother of invention’ and in
the case of Jacquelyn Stewart, the UK’s only producer of a ready
to drink Wheatgrass juice, it couldn’t be truer. Jacquelyn became
interested in wheatgrass and its benefits when she was diagnosed
with skin cancer and decided to grow and juice her own wheatgrass
as part of her treatment programme.

“I’d read studies about wheatgrass
and its high level of alkaline
properties, how it supports the
immune system, oxygenates the
blood and boosts red blood cell
production. I’d read about some
medical studies* which showed
the disease can’t grow in an
alkaline environment so I thought
it would be worth trying.”

drove Jacquelyn to set up her own
Wheatgrass production facility in
2010.
Jacquelyn’s business - Squeeze
Juice Café -is now the only UK
producer of a 100% natural Ready
to Drink wheatgrass shot.

GROWING DEMAND

Recently the business has attracted
new distributors in Israel, Spain
“I began juicing and growing my and Switzerland and through an
own as it was impossible to get ecommerce site Jacquelyn ships
fresh wheatgrass juice in Ireland – some 3,000 wheatgrass shots
so much of the market is powdered across the world every week.
wheatgrass and, personally, I Jacquelyn continues to improve
only wanted to take a pure, fresh and invest in the business most
product.” The lack of availability recently switching to a hydroponic
and her own belief in the product system in her Warrenpoint ‘farm’

HEALTH BOOST

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