#wheatgrass

[zegalba]

neck accessory created by bio-designer and underwater photographer Zena Holloway may look like sea coral, but it's actually made from moulded wheatgrass roots (2024)

[plantsinsupernatural]

Flax, soy, wheat

season 9, episode 5: Dog Dean Afternoon

Sam and Dean track a symbol painted on a victim's storefront to a hippie cafe where one of the proprietors offers them a flax seed scone. Later, the hippies adopt the victim's dog, who calls one of them "tofu breath" and says he'll be "pooping wheatgrass with these two." Evidently this dog doesn't say shit.

Flax, also called line, is best known for being extremely useful. The seeds can be eaten whole, ground into meal, or pressed into linseed oil. Linen fabric is made from fibers found in the plant stems. The scones in the show are described as gluten-free and wheat-free (in that order), and thus are likely made with flaxseed flour. They would lose nothing by it. Being unrelated to wheat, flax is inherently gluten-free; gluten is good for creating structural integrity and delicate textures in baked goods, which are unnecessary qualities for scones, dense and crumbly as they most often are.

Tofu is made from the curds of soy milk, which in turn is made from soy beans. Soy is not used to make textiles, but is even more versatile than flax in cuisine. The beans are high in protein, and can be eaten whole as edamame when immature, or processed into meal, oil, milk, sauce, and other sundry food products. Soy has grown commonplace in the West, but is still considered distinctly East Asian.

According to Wikipedia, wheatgrass refers to "the freshly sprouted first leaves of the common wheat plant (Triticum aestivum), used as a food, drink, or dietary supplement." Its health benefits have historically been exaggerated. Aesthetically speaking, ripe wheat is on par with flax and soy, but wheatgrass just looks like grass.

Learned readers will note that despite being used in this episode to signal eccentricity, flax, soy, and wheat are all staple crops.

[gina025]

Mental relief

[morethansalad]

Strawberry Kiwi Slushie (Vegan)

[maplesuckup]

I love you, wheatgrass !!!!!!!

[crudlynaturephotos]

[chibidraws]

"If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now.” I am always pleasantly surprised to find Van Gogh as much as a poet as a painter

[yeeyeeclan]

Who has the most and least braincells in the clan

Now, Roosterfoot's not all big in the noggin' as he is in the heart, mind ya', but that don't make him any less lovable! He's makin' good work as our deputy over here n' th' country, even if he ain't so bright.

Miss Wheatgrass on th' other paw? She's th' brightest star out there! She's our medicine cat apprentice n' Tumbleweed made good work teaching her the ins and outs. Don't let her shyness fool you - she's smart!

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