General Health: Alkaline and Acid Foods

These are foods that you should definitely limit, but not eradicate from your diet. Eating more of the alkaline-ash producing foods will keep your body in better balance and healthier in the long term.

Alkaline-Ash Producing Foods Almonds Apples Apricots Avacados Bananas Beans, dried Beet greens Beets Blackberries Broccoli Brussels Sprouts Cabbage Carrots Cauliflower Celery Chard Leaves Cherries, sour Cucumbers Dates, dried Figs, dried Grapefruit Grapes Green beans Green peas Lemons Lettuce Lime beans, dried Lima beans, green Limes Milk, goats Millet Molasses Mushrooms Muskmelon Onions Oranges Parsnips Peaches Pears Pineapple Potatoes, sweet Potatoes, white Radishes Raisins Raspberries Rutabagas Sauerkraut Soy beans, green Spinach, raw Strawberries Tangerines Tomatoes Watercress Watermelon

Acid-Ash Producing Foods corn oil corn syrup refined sugar olive oil (I personally think this is the best oil to use, so I would not eliminate it) bacon barley beef blueberries bran, wheat bran, oat bread, white bread, wheat butter carob cheese chicken codfish corn corned beef crackers, soda cranberries currents eggs flour,white flour, whole wheat haddock honey lamb lentils, dried lobster milk, cows macaroni oatmeal oysters peanut butter peanuts peas, dried pike plums pork prunes rice, brown rice, white salmon sardines sausage scallops shrimp spaghetti squash, winter sunflower seeds turkey veal walnuts wheat germ yogurt