Re: oat bran and wheat grass

 Very interesting, thanks, tho I still feel that we do better with a diet that promotes digestion in the arena that each food item was designed to activate enzymatic action in. Furthermore since so many have intestinal predicaments it would do them better to stick with easily digested choices and hard or soft we all know bran will clump and seemingly assist peristalsis tho that is symptomatic and the better option would be to power up the flora with mono diets of living and simpley digested foods.

I have taken spoonfuls of rice bran numerous times and just threw it in my mouth. It has never clumped up.

As for digestion the flora play a major role in the absorption of nutrients, particularly minerals. In addition the flora produce B vitamins and vitamin K. As I pointed out earlier though the flora need fibers to feed on, which allows them to grow and to produce their beneficial acids.

In addition rice bran provides a lot of vitamins and gamma oryzanol, which helps with hormones and to inhibit cancer. The silica provided by brans benefits bone, cartilage, teeth, tendons, ligaments, hair, arterial walls, skin, etc.

And all brans provide phytates, which have a high affinity for free iron and toxic heavy metals. 

In short brans are not bad, they are beneficial. But soft fibers such as rice bran and oat bran are recommended since they do not aggravate inflammatory intestinal conditions.