Author: Kamal Kishore, Vivek Sharma, H.S. Dhaliwal, Nandita Thakur and Dheeraj Vasu
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Herbal medicines have been subjected to be more potable from ancient times because of its safeguard and inexpensive nature. One of the pioneer cereal crop wheat played an important role due to its nutritive and medicinal aspects. Various chemical constituents such as flavonoids, alkaloids, glycosides, terpenoids, saponins, enzymes, tannins, dietary fibres, and phenolic compounds have been analyzed in wheat seedlings which played important role in growth and maintenance of body tissues. The availability of bizarre vitamins like vitamin A, B-complex, C, E and minerals such as phosphate, zinc, molybdenum, potassium, alkaline earth metals, selenium make it healthiest remedy. Antioxidant enzymes superoxide dismutase and cytochrome oxidase have the ability to neutralize free radicals and changed them to desirable forms. Wheatgrass has recognized as green blood due to higher chlorophyll content that behaved as shield for cells to protect them from reactive oxygen species and supplied oxygen to enhance body’s immunitic potential. The presence of secondary metabolites and minerals in seedlings possessed anticancer, antiulcer, antioxidant, antiarthritic, iron chelating and blood building properties.
Wheatgrass, chlorophyll, secondary metabolites, oxidative stress, antioxidant, anticancer
India has biodiversity richness and the medicinal plants availed approximately 80% raw material for drug formulation. Medicinal plants demand is increasing day by day due to acute product formulation in pharmaceutical, food and cosmetic industries. The young shoots of wheat have beneficiary role in human life and it must be added into human diet chart to improve nutrient balance. Wheatgrass enriched with life saving chlorophyll, vitamins, minerals, polyphenols, amino acids, saponins and fibres. It has used to heal various illnesses sch as tumour, diabeties, heart problems, inflammatory and ulcerative diseases etc. Various wheatgrass basedproducts launched in market with some new innovative prospectives by claiming their effectiveness. Wheatgrass based products have natural anti-oxidants and bioactive constituents which are capable to avert the track of noxious illnesses. It has much pharmacological diversity in addition to its nutritional values which yet to be explored furthermore.
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