Every formulation or product is made up of two main constituents that are Active Ingredients (AI) and Excipients. Active Ingredients are known to be the main ingredients which are responsible for any desirable effect whereas, excipients are the ingredients which are used to formulate any preparation alongside the active ingredients for stabilization of the product. In industries, polymers are generally used as excipients and play a vital role in pharmaceutical, cosmetics and food preparations. Polymers are classified into three sub-types that are natural polymers, synthetic polymers and semi-synthetic polymers where natural polymers are proven to be more suitable over synthetic and semi-synthetic polymers in preparations or formulations because of their characteristics of Sustainability, Biodegradability, Bio-safety, No side effects and don't have any Drug Release associated problem and many more. Natural polymers are used in several industries such as pharmaceutical, food, non-food and cosmetic industries and act as thickening agent, rate controlling agent, taste masking agent, protective or stabilizing agents & many more as per the requirements. Some of the examples of natural polymers are agar, tragacanth, gum acacia, xanthan gum, starch, pectin, locus bean gum, carrageenan, cellulose, inulin, gelatin, alginates, guar gum, psyllium, collagen, chitin and etc.

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Background: Plants having active constituents possess pharmaceutical use and nutritional values. Herbal medicine or food supplement is gaining popularity, as well as scientific research on wheatgrass as a “functional food”. Objective: The target behind accepting wheatgrass as a study for review is to have clinical and non-clinical investigations on the wheatgrass plant at an equivalent stage. To let individuals, think about different affirmed uses and activities of the plant. Methods: Plants having so many nutritional and therapeutic values have been selected for review so that consumers or patients could be benefitted from their therapeutic uses. Recently, the interests in the use of herbal products have grown dramatically in the western as well as developing countries. The review was extracted from searches performed on Google Scholars, Google Patents, etc. Data from sources have been collected and reported here at one place in order to provide further research on wheatgrass. Results : Wheatgrass is a high source of various vitamins and minerals; it possesses many activities like anti-oxidant, anti-inflammation, anti-bacterial and many more. Wheatgrass’ uses, benefits and properties non-clinical data and clinical studies has been thoroughly studied. Patents filed related to wheatgrass are mentioned here, so as to motivate other innovators to search for new activities or molecules. Conclusions: Wheatgrass can be used in pharmaceutical formulations and can be used as nutritional supplements due to its anti-oxidant nature, anti-microbial activity, anti-bacterial activity, anti-fungal activity. It is also called “Panacea on Earth” owing to its wide range of nutritive and medicinal aspects.

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