Wheatgrass for Detoxification

Research suggests that the available published studies on wheatgrass and detoxification do not address the use of wheatgrass as a dietary supplement for human detoxification purposes. The two identified studies are specialized plant science investigations: one examined genetically engineered western wheatgrass designed to break down explosive compounds like RDX and TNT in contaminated military training sites, while the other explored salt-tolerance mechanisms in a wheat-wheatgrass hybrid, noting differences in proteins involved in neutralizing reactive oxygen species at the cellular level in plants. Both studies are laboratory or hydroponic research focused on plant biology and agricultural applications, not human health outcomes. Readers interested in claims about wheatgrass supporting detoxification in humans should be aware that the current indexed research does not appear to directly support or evaluate such claims, and that the existing evidence base is narrow in scope and entirely outside the context of human consumption or physiology.