When Did Wheatgrass Become Popular? Tracing the Superfood's Rise
                                
                                
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                                While wheatgrass boasts ancient origins traced back to Egyptian civilizations over 5,000 years ago, its rise to prominence in the Western world is a far more recent development. The question of when did wheatgrass become popular is a two-part answer, involving early 20th-century scientific research and a later, more dramatic, shift towards juicing and raw food diets.