The At-A-Glance Acid/Alkaline Food List EAT MORE EAT LESS

CAN BE INCLUDED IN YOUR 20% ACID

Moderately Neutral/ Mildly Moderately Highly Alkaline Mildly Alkaline Highly Acidic Alkaline Acidic Acidic

pH 9.5 alkaline water Avocado Artichokes Black Beans Fresh, Natural Juice Alcohol Beetroot Asparagus Chickpeas/Garbanzos Coffee Himalayan salt Capsicum/Pepper Brussells Sprouts Kidney Beans Ketchup Fruit Juice (Sweetened) Cabbage Cauliflower Seitan Mayonnaise Black Tea Grasses Celery Carrot Butter Cucumber Collard/Spring Greens Chives Cantaloupe Cocoa Kale Endive Courgette/Zucchini Currants Apple Honey Spinach Garlic Leeks Fresh Dates Apricot Jam Parsley Ginger New Baby Potatoes Nectarine Banana Jelly Broccoli Green Beans Peas Plum Blackberry Mustard Sprouts (soy, alfalfa etc) Lettuce Rhubarb Sweet Cherry Blueberry Rice Syrup Sea Vegetables (Kelp) Mustard Greens Swede Watermelon Cranberry Soy Sauce Okra Watercress Grapes Vinegar Green drinks Onion Amaranth Mango Yeast Radish Grapefruit Millet Orange Red Onion Coconut Peach Dried Fruit Rocket/Arugula Freshwater Wild Fish Strawberry Tomato Buckwheat Beef Quinoa Rice Milk Brown Rice Chicken Lemon Spelt Soy Milk Oats Eggs Lime Lentils Rye Bread Farmed Fish Tofu Brazil Nuts Wheat Pork Butter Beans Pecan Nuts Wholemeal Bread Shellfish Soy Beans Goat Milk Hazel Nuts Wild Rice White Haricot Beans Wholemeal Pasta Cheese Most Herbs & Spices Sunflower Oil Dairy Grapeseed Oil Ocean Fish Avocado Oil Articifial Sweeteners Coconut Oil Syrup Flax Oil Udo’s Oil Mushroom The Detailed List of Alkaline Foods Eat these alkaline foods freely! Try to incorporate as many as you can into your daily diet...

Vegetables! Fruit! Grains & Beans! Grasses!

Asparagus Coriander Avocado Amaranth Lentils Wheatgrass Broccoli Basil Tomato Buckwheat Lima Beans Barley Grass Chilli Brussells Sprouts Lemon Brown Rice Mung Beans Kamut Grass Capsicum/Pepper Cauliflower Life Kamut Navy Beans Dog Grass Courgette/Zucchini Carrot Grapefruit Millet Pinto Beans Shave Grass Dandelion Beetroot Fresh Coconut Quinoa Red Beans Oat Grass Snowpeas Eggplant/Aubergine Spelt Soy Beans Green Beans Garlic White Beans String Beans Onion Runner Beans Parsley Nuts & Seeds! Other! Spinach Celery Kale Cucumber Almonds Oils! Alkaline Water Wakame Watercress Coconut Tofu Kelp Goat Milk Lettuce Flax Seeds Avocado Oil Collards Herbal Tea Peas Hazelnuts Coconut Oil Chives Broad Beans Macadamia Nuts Flax Oil Endive New Potato Pumpkin Seeds Udo’s Oil Chard Pumpkin Sesame Seeds Olive Oil Cabbage Radish Sunower Seeds Sweete Potato

Sprouts! Breads! Soy Sprouts Kamut Sprouts Sprouted Bread Alfalfa Sprouts Mung Bean Sprouts Sprouted Wraps Amaranth Sprouts Quinoa Sprouts Gluten/Yeast Free Broccoli Sprouts Radish Sprouts Breads & Wraps Fenugreek Sprouts Spelt Sprouts The Detailed List of Acid Foods Try to avoid these foods and drinks, and try to keep to a maximum of 20% of your diet

Meat! Fruit! Drinks! Nuts & Seeds!

Bacon Oyster Apple Alcohol Cashews Beef Pork Apricot Black Tea Peanuts Clams Rabbit Currants Coffee Pecans Corned Beef Sausage Dates Carbonated Water Pistachios Eggs Scallops Grapes Pasteurized Juice Walnuts Lamb Shellsh Mango Cocoa Brazil Nuts Lobster Shrimp Peach Energy Drinks Chestnuts Mussels Tuna Pear Sports Drinks Hazelnuts Organ Meats Turkey Prunes Colas Macadamia Nuts Venison Veal Raisins Tap Water Fish Raspberries Milk Strawberries Green Tea Tropical Fruits Decaffeinated Drinks Sauces! Berries Flavoured Water Dairy & Eggs! Cantaloupe Mayonnaise Cranberries Ketchup Butter Cottage Cheese Currrants Mustard Cheese Ice Cream Honeydew Melon Other! Soy Sauce Milk Sour Cream Orange Pickles Whey Soy Cheese Pineapple Mushrooms Vinegar Yogurt Eggs Plum Miso Tabasco White Breads, Pastas, Tamari Rice & Noodles Wasabi Chocolate Sweeteners! Oils! Chips Pizza Articial Sweeteners Saccharine Cooked Oil Biscuits Carob Sucrose Solid Oil (Margarine) Cigarettes Corn Syrup Sucralose Oil Exposed to Heat, Drugs Fructose Honey Light or Air Candy! Processed Sugar Maple Syrup Lookouts & Top Tips

Tip #1 - Fruits Tip #4 - Tea & Coffee It might come as a surprise that fruits are considered to be acid-forming. This is purely because of their high Tea & coffee are, of course, acid-forming - so if you need sugar content, and so I strongly advise that you keep to cut them from your diet look for substitues. All herbal fruit to a minimum. However, you don’t have to avoid it teas are alkaline (except for the very fruity ones and completely and a piece per day as part of a balanced diet green tea, which contains nearly as much caffeine as is fine. coffee). Rooibos (Redbush) tea is a fantastic, anti-oxidant rich alternative to coffee and tea. Tip #2 - I Thought It Was Acid?! Tip #5 - Bread There are a few exceptions where intuition goes out of the window and the most obvious of these is lemons and Bread is a tough one for many people, who rely upon limes being considered as alkaline. This is because they it as a quick, filling part of lunch and breakfast. Try have a high alkaline mineral content and almost no sugar sprouted breads, which are mildly alkaline. If these are - so they have an alkaline effect on the body after they hard to find go for wraps instead of sandwiches and look are consumed. The same goes for tomatoes. for yeast free/gluten free varieties.

Tip #3 - Soy & Soy Sauce Tip #6 - Hydration Staying properly hydrated is probably the most important Soy sauce, miso, tamari and all other fermented element of the alkaline diet. Not just any water will do! foods are acid-forming. This does not apply to the Tap water is actually mildly acidic in most areas with a unfermented versions however, and soy sauce & tofu as low pH and traces of pesticides, heavy metals, fluoride OK to consume as part of your 20% mildly acid foods. and other nasties. Research the alkaline water options at energiseforlife.com - and take the time to look at the ionizers - nothing beats ionized, alkaline water.