Anyone know of any other kinds of edible grass for humans besides just wheatgrass?

Greetings,
Anyone know of any other kinds of edible grass for humans besides just wheatgrass?
Thank you

I was taught (and I haven't verified this, so grain of salt please) that all grasses are edible, at least in that they are not toxic. The leaves are simply not digestible for humans, so the grasses we use for food are those with large seeds that we can harvest for grains - wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, etc. Then there are grasses used for flavoring, like lemongrass. And grasses used for their sugars, like sorghum and sugarcane.

Here's an article about eating grass:

http://www.eattheweeds.com/can-we-eat-grass/

The author says that some grasses contain cyanide, and some don't. He goes on to say it's hard to tell different grass species apart.

And a quote from the article:

While there is no shortage of people on the internet who say grass is edible and nutritious — one Indian claims to only eat grass — the Irish Potato Famine of 1845-49 shows otherwise. Folks were reduced to eating grass yet they died, often with grass stains still on their mouth. Another problem with a grass is that it contains a lot of silica, which wears down teeth. Silica is also not good for our digestive track with a history of causing oesophageal cancer. There is some molecular evidence that our very distant ancestors ate grass, or things that ate grass. It’s a debate but those who study the topic say humans did not begin to advance greatly until they good access to protein, meaning meat. These days grain, the other part of grass, is accused of contributing to bad health and obesity particularly in America. Lastly, in the for-what-it-worth department in Japan men who are not the expected Alpha Male type are called soushoku danshi—literally translated — “grass-eating boys.” If you sprout wheat grass you might want to be careful just who your tell.

Many types of bamboo are edible
If you count grains there are many many types of grads you can eat

David

Green Deane has an excellent article on Timothy hay on his blog on wild edibles. I'm curious if this grass would taste any good if juiced like wheatgrass. Hopefully I can find a smaller batch of timothy hay seeds to sprout like wheatgrass so I can juice it.
https://www.eattheweeds.com/can-we-eat-grass/

The part of bamboo that's eaten is the shoots. Once they're a foot tall, you're too late. Phyllostachys genus are all edible as shoots although some varieties need to be boiled twice, changing the water.
Grass doesn't have much nutrition per volume. Generally, there's a tiny bit at the very bottom of the blades of grass that can be eaten, and you need a lot of it.
If you're blending it in a blender and drinking the juice, that might change, as the blender's doing a lot of the work of breaking up the plant structure.

This article suggests these grasses:

Edible grasses include Bent, Wheat, Slough, Brome, Crab, Switch, Canary, Timothy, Blue, and Bristle grasses. You can make grasses into a juice by grinding them up, but don’t swallow the fiber. Chewing immature seed heads can be beneficial as well.

https://wildernessawareness.org/articles/survival-food-plants-cattail-acorns-grasses-and-conifers/

Since wheatgrass for human consumption is often grown indoors, not outside on the land, it seems like all kinds of sprouts might be considered here. Sprouting seeds changes them from a seed into a growing plant with enhanced digestibility and nutritional value. Black oil sunflower seeds are my #1 favorite. The same seed I lavish upon my backyard birds turns out to be easy to grow and delicious to eat, as long as they are harvested before any true leaves form, only the initial green embryonic leaves.

I read somewhere (can't remember where, unfortunately) that some grasses contain toxic alkaloids, not produced by the grass itself, but by endophytic fungi... Might be a bad idea to just go out on one's lawn and graze.

On the other hand, there definitely are grasses with edible parts. Bamboo shoots have been mentioned. I'd add shoots of common reed (Phragmites australis) which can be peeled and eaten raw. At exactly the right, very early, stage, the taste (but not the consistency) of the shoot reminds me a lot of a very good cucumber.

Maize/sweet corn. Picking the cobs, I've found the fresh stalks sweet and juicy.
My (UK) wild flower book lists one grass as poisonous, Lolium temulentum, Darnel - a rare annual.
There's one grass (possibly Timothy) I recall is a good pasture grass, until it links with a certain mycorrhiza and turns toxic - I can't find the reference for that.

Wild Rice is in the grass family, unlike other rice.  You generally just eat the seed though.

Quackgrass (Elymus repens) runners have a mildly sweet starchy paste in the center. If you lay some large boards down on the grass, in a few weeks you'll get these long white runners that are super clean. Rinse 'em off and give 'em a chew. Savor the starchy inner part, spit out the tough outer part. Repeat as necessary. Try with other rhizomatous grasses like Smooth Brome.

From PFAF:
Edible Uses
Roots - cooked. They can be dried and ground into a powder, then used with wheat when making bread[12, 46, 105, 244]. Although thin and stringy, the roots contain starch and enzymes and are quite sweet[7]. When boiled for a long time to break down the leathery membrane, a syrup can be made from the roots and this is sometimes brewed into a beer[2, 7]. The roasted root is a coffee substitute[46]. Young leaves and shoots - eaten raw in spring salads[7]. A slightly sweet flavour, though quickly becoming very fibrous, they are rather less than wonderful[K]. The juice from these shoots is sometimes used as a spring tonic[244]. Seed[161]. A cereal mash can be made from them[7]. The seed is very small and there is a large husk surrounding it, so that effectively it is more like eating fibre than cereal[K].

Sweet flag grass has edible parts, although eating a plateful probably wouldn't be the best meal in the world.

Fescue has endophyte fungus in the leaf, although some currently bred varieties of it are lower, it still has some.  Trays of wheatgrass grown Indoors can sometimes have mold growing.  Look carefully.  

One of the best grasses for juicing is oatgrass, very sweet.  No wonder the livestock like grazing it!  However, will winter kill in areas where wheat will not.   Humans cannot digest the cellulose in grasses, but can digest the juice.  It is not a complete food but has lots of minerals and vitamins plus chlorophyll.