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Acid-Alkaline Forming Foods

8/19/2014

 
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Good health often means a body in balance between acidity and alkalinity, simply because being at one extreme or the other on the pH scale results in poor health. Choosing a balance of the right foods can be confusing because an acidic food doesn't necessarily create an acidic condition in the body.
With thanks to www.phionbalance.com the following table may be used as a general guideline to determine what foods will create an acid or alkaline condition in the body. This is significantly different from whether a food tests acid or alkaline. For instance, lemons are acidic, but create an alkaline condition in the body. Opinions vary, but generally speaking you want a balance of about 60% alkaline and 40% acid in the body. More alkaline conditions may be required for weakened immune systems, or if combating cancer, as cancer cells cannot grow in an alkaline environment. 

Also, notice how your gut responds to a given food, and trust a negative response. 

ALKALINE FORMING FOODS (* means highly alkaline)

Chestnuts
Cheese, from raw milk
Coconut, fresh & milk
Corn, fresh, sweet, organic
Cucumbers
Daikon radish
Dates*
Endive*
Eggplant
Figs*
Fruits, all, fresh, in moderation
Garlic*
Ginger root, fresh
Grasses*, all, fresh & juiced
Green veggies*, all, fresh
Green teas
Hazelnuts
Honey, raw
Horseradish, fresh, raw
Kamut, whole
Leek
Macadamia nuts
Maple syrup, raw
Milk, raw and organic
Millet, whole
Molasses
Oils, raw, cold-pressed
Pumpkin
Quinoa, whole
Radishes
Rhubarb
Rice, brown & whole
Salt, unrefined sea salt*
Seeds, all
Spelt, whole
Sprouts*, all, fresh
Stevia
Sugarcane, raw
Sweet Potatoes
Tomatoes
Water, alkaline
Whey, raw
Yogurt, fresh, organic

ACID-FORMING FOODS (* means highly acidic)

Alcohol
Artificial Sweeteners*
Baked goods, not sprouted
Beans, dried
Beer*
Black tea
Bread, not sprouted
Butter*, not raw
Caffeine*
Carob
Cashews
Cheese, not from raw milk
Cocoa
Coconut, dried
Coffee*
Corn, dry & products
Corn syrup, high-fructose*
Dairy*, all pasteurized
Drugs*
Eggs
‘Energy’ drinks
Flour*, white
Fried foods*
Fruit, canned and pasteurized
Grains not in alkaline group
Grains, processed
Honey, not raw
Juices, pasteurized
Lard
Legumes
Margarine*
Meat
Oils, heated to high temps with long cook times
Olives
Pasta
Peanuts
Peas, dried
Pecans
Pickles
Pistachios
Rice*, white
Salt, table, refined*
Sauerkraut
Seafood
Soy products*, not fermented
Squash
Sugar*, processed
Tobacco
Vinegar*, distilled
Walnut

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