Acid Alkaline Food List
What Are Alkaline Foods?
Below is an easy to read Acid Alkaline Food List.
Foods can be classified as alkaline if they leave an alkaline residue in your body after digestion and similarly so for acidic foods.? It’s important to understand that the pH of food before digestion does NOT affect the classification.
Alkaline Forming and Acidic Forming Foods
We are interested in the pH (acidity or alkalinity) of the food after digestion, or after it has been metabolised by the body.? For this reason, the title of this page should be Acid-Forming Alkaline-Forming Food List because that is what we are really showing! This explains why lemons, which are mildly acidic, are classed as alkaline because they contribute to the body’s alkalinity once digested.? The same goes with tomatoes, which many of us think of as acidic, but in reality tomatoes are alkaline forming, because they are low in sugar and are high in alkaline minerals.
What Are the Most Alkaline Foods?
Generally speaking, the most alkaline foods are vegetables and salads, which have a very low sugar and high mineral content. Conversely, the most acidic foods are processed, sugar-containing foods and meat which become acidic once digested.
Why Eat Alkaline Food?
The reason we want to know which foods are alkaline and acidic forming is so that we can make informed decisions when aiming for a healthy diet.? You will notice that the vasty majority of foods that are classified as alkaline forming are already considered to be healthy foods.? However, there are foods that are classed as acidic forming that many still consider to be healthy, such as wholemeal bread, pasta, dairy, fish. These are foods that we should aim to minimise in our diets if we want to create a pH balanced environment.
It’s all About Being pH Balanced!
Your body works best when the cells are slightly alkaline, having a pH just over 7 (pH 7 is considered neutral and is the pH of distilled water). This is not to be confused with the pH of your blood which MUST be between 7.35 and 7.45.? Your body works very hard to maintain this pH since tiny variations in either above or below can cause severe illness and death. The natural elimination processes, such as sweat, urine are normally very effective at maintaining a healthy blood pH.? However, making poor (acidic) food choices over many years can overwhelm the natural elimination processes. The body can be?forced to preserve the blood’s ideal pH by diverting excess acidity away from the blood and storing it (eg in the fat cells or organs), not ideal!
By increasing the amount of alkaline forming foods in your diet and decreasing the amount of acidic foods, you allow your body gradually to release stored acidity.
Good Health is All About pH Balance
Good health is all about balance and once acidity has been released, a maintenance diet could consist of 80% alkaline foods and 20% acidic foods.
Eat lots everyday !
Alfalfa sprouts
Avocado
Barley grass
Beansprouts
Beet greens
Broccoli
Broccoli sprouts
Broccoli sprout juice
Cabbage
Celery
Cucumber
Endive
Fennel
Garlic
Green juices
Kale
Kamut grass
Pea sprouts
Parsley
Spinach
Soybeans (soaked)
Soy sprouts
Swiss chard
Tomato
Watercress
Wheatgrass Juice
Wintergreen
plus…
Himalayan pink rock salt
Sea salt
Eat plentifully
Arugula
Basil
Beetroot (beets)
Butter beans
Chili (capsicum) pepper
Carrot
Chia seeds
Chives
Coconut water (fresh)
Collard (spring greens)
Coriander
Courgette (zucchini)
Ginger
Green beans
Green cabbage
Hemp seeds
Leeks
Lemon
Lettuce (round/cabbage)
Lime
Mange tout
Mustard greens
Okra
Onion (red)
Quinoa
Radish
Red cabbage
Rhubarb
Turnip
White beans
Eat freely
Almonds (nuts and milk)
Artichokes
Asparagus
Avocado oil
Brussels Sprouts
Cabbage (white)
Cauliflower
Coconut (flesh and oil)
Fennel seeds
Flax oil (Linseed oil)
Grapefruit
Grape seed oil
Hemp oil
Herbs
Houmous (hummus)
Lentils
Lettuce (lamb’s)
Leeks
Olive oil
Pomegranate
Potatoes (new, baby)
Peas
Onion (white)
Sesame seeds
Spices
Swede
Squash (eg. pumpkin, butternut)
Tahini
Tofu
Watermelon
Eat only a little
Amaranth
Black beans
Brazil nuts
Buckwheat
Cherries
Coconut milk
Couscous
Dates
Fish (freshwater, wild)
Flax seeds
Garbanzo beans
Hazelnuts
Kidney beans
Melon (cantaloupe)
Millet
Nectarine
Oats, oatmeal
Pecan nuts
Plum
Protein powder (hemp, rice, soy)
Pumpkin seeds
Rice milk
Sunflower Seeds
Seitan
Soy beans
Soy milk
Spelt
Sunflower oil
Avoid if possible
Apple
Apricot
Banana
Blackberries
Blueberries
Bread (wholemeal and rye)
Butter
Cranberries
Fish (ocean)
Fruit juice (freshly squeezed)
Goat’s cheese
Grapes
Guava
Ketchup
Mango
Mangosteen
Mayonnaise
Orange
Peach
Papaya
Pasta (wholemeal)
Pineapple
Rice (brown, wild)
Rye
Soy cheese
Strawberry
Walnuts
Wheat
Avoid completely
Alcohol
Beef
Chicken
Chocolate, cocoa
Coffee
Dairy (milk, cheese, cream, yoghurt)
Eggs
Fish (farmed)
Fruit (dried)
Fruit juice sweetened
Honey
Ice cream
Jam
Jelly
Lamb
Miso
Mushroom
Mustard
Pork
Rice (white)
Tea (black)
Turkey
Rice syrup
Shellfish
Sweeteners (eg. sorbitol, aspartame)
Syrup
Vinegar
Yeast
7 Easy Ways to Increase Alkalinity
- Cut out sugar
- Reduce meat
- Less grains, more oil
- Get rid of artificial anythings
- Switch coffee for herbal tea
- Drink alkaline water
- Drink vegetable juice daily
Broccoli Sprout Juice is a Strongly Alkaline Food
As you can see from the list, broccoli sprouts are one of the strongest alkaline forming foods you can eat. Juicing makes available all of the alkaline minerals because it’s more effective than chewing. Vegus Juices Broccoli Sprout juice is light, portable and a very convenient way of increasing the amount of alkaline foods you eat each day.