What is “hvedegræssaft” in Danish?

Grøn basisk smoothie med avocado og omega-3

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A2 Danish listening practice · Standard Danish · Picked for people who know a little

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hvedegræssaft
Danish wheatgrass juice
'Wheat-grass-juice', the Danish health-shot you order at juice bars across Copenhagen

Hvedegræssaft is the Danish word for wheatgrass juice, the bright-green health-food shot popular across Scandinavian wellness culture. The word is a transparent compound: hvede (“wheat”) + græs (“grass”) + saft (“juice”). Danish supermarket juice bars and health-food cafés sell it in shot-sized portions, and it shows up in green smoothies as the deep-green base. The word itself is a perfect example of how Danish builds technical vocabulary by stacking native roots, the same way hospital becomes sygehus (“sick-house”) and hospital porter becomes portør.

This clip is a Danish smoothie tutorial: half an avocado, cucumber, celery, hvedegræssaft, homemade almond milk, salt, pepper. The result is described as en lækker basisk smoothie (“a delicious alkaline smoothie”), pure Copenhagen wellness lingo.

How common are the words?

How common are the words in this A2 Danish listening practice video?

73.3%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Danish words
Most of the words in this video are common Danish words.

How common in written Danish

73.3%
Top 1,000
73.3%
Top 2,000
84.4%
Top 5,000

How common in spoken Danish

88.6%
Top 1,000
97.1%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000

Harder words in this video

These words are harder than A2. Here is what they mean.

alkaline
1×
Not in top 5,000
(formal) alkaline
avocado
1×
Not in top 5,000
avocado
basisk
1×
Not in top 5,000
basic
cashewmælk
1×
Not in top 5,000
cashew milk
hvedegræssaft
1×
Not in top 5,000
wheatgrass juice

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · OpenSubtitles 2018 (HermitDave) (spoken). These numbers are close, not perfect.

★Where you hear this
  • ▸In Danish juice bars across Copenhagen and Aarhus (Joe & The Juice, Detox Bar)
  • ▸In Danish wellness and health content on Instagram and YouTube
  • ▸In Danish supermarket health-food aisles (Irma, Føtex, Magasin)
  • ▸In Danish yoga-studio and gym smoothie menus
  • ▸In Danish parenting blogs about kids' smoothies and green juices

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