Your doctor may ask you to follow a Low Iodine Diet for two to four weeks before a radioactive iodine scan or treatment. Foods containing iodine can be difficult to track because it is not labeled on ingredient lists. Avoiding certain foods that include high amounts of iodine is a good place to start.

Iodine is commonly added to salt in restaurants and small food manufacturing companies. Many large food manufacturing companies use salt without iodine in their foods. Brands of specific items are listed in parentheses.

Food Types Foods to Avoid Foods Allowed Food Types Foods to Avoid Foods Allowed • Nori (black paper in • Most fresh and • Cured meats • sushi rolls) frozen vegetables All fresh meats including pepperoni, • Deli meats • Seaweed and seaweed • Canned vegetables salami, bologna Vegetables, salad and tomato sauces Meats including sliced Beans and • Kelp and algae (sea (Green Giant, turkey, ham, Grains vegetables) Hunt’s, Classico) chicken • Sea based additives • Vegetable juice (V8, • Frankfurters, (carrageenan, agar- Hunt’s) sausages, agar, alginate) • Most grains bacon (Oscar • Skin of potato (inside including pasta, Mayer, Hebrew of potato is allowed) bulgur, wheat, National, Chef • Navy beans, red basmati rice, Boyardee) kidney, lima, pinto couscous, oats, • Milk (whole, low fat, • Almond milk beans and cowpeas quinoa, polenta Dairy (black eyed peas) cornmeal skim, chocolate) • Rice milk • Store bought beans, • Cream, whipping • Coconut milk grain or pasta salads cream • Non-dairy containing foods to • Buttermilk, cream avoid (egg, dairy, soy products, seafood, powdered milk substitutes iodized salt) • Yogurt • Plant based • Egg yolk • Milk based drinks milk (Bolthouse • Egg whites (Egg Farms) Eggs • Whole eggs Beaters) (yogurt drinks, kefir) • Egg substitutes • Cheese, cottage made from egg cheese whites • Ice cream, • Roasted or salted nuts • Unsalted and milkshakes Nuts from small unprocessed nuts • Cream based soups manufacturing and nut butters • Maraschino cherries • All fresh or companies or local • Salted/roasted nuts markets from manufacturing Fruits with Red Dye No. 3 frozen fruits or erythrosine • Most canned • Trail mix with companies that chocolate or yogurt don’t use iodized • Rhubarb fruits covered pieces salt (Planters) preferably in juice (Dole) • Peanut butter • Dried fruit (Peter Pan) Low iodine diet tips: • For a free Low-Iodine Cookbook with over 420 recipes visit - www.thyca.org • Check nutritional supplement ingredient list for iodine • Ask a Pharmacist if any medications contain iodine and speak with your doctor • Read all ingredients in packaged food lists for iodine • Avoid body lotions or topical creams containing iodine or soy products Companies that use salt without iodine:

• Campbell’s USA • General Mills • Kraft Foods • Conagra Foods • Heinz • PepsiCo • Frito-Lay • Kashi • Quakers

Food Types Foods to Avoid Foods Allowed Food Types Foods to Avoid Foods Allowed • Ingredients • Homemade baked goods • Any dishes • Non-dairy soups included in made with egg whites made with • CannedCanned soups foods to avoid only, dairy free butter, cheese, (Campbe(Campbell’s,ll’s, Baked goods including egg • Cocoa powder and some MMixedixed Dishes eggs (i.e. Progresso, Healthy yolks, dark chocolate (dairy lasagna, Choice) chocolate, dairy free) meatloaf, • Chili, stews and products • Packaged cookies (Oreo, meatballs) homemade dishes PepperiPepperidgedge Farms, Chips with egg whites, Ahoy, Nabisco, Nilla, dairy free Snackwells) • Cream sauces • Ketchup, mustard, Condiments or creacreamymy saucesaucess (Heinz, A1, • Hot or cold • Cold cereals without milk salad dressing Jack Daniels Sauces, Cereal cereal with milk, (Life, GoLean, Chex, • Egg-based Hamburger Helper, milk chocolate CheeriosCheerios,, Nut Harvest) mayo Old El Paso) pieces or other • Oatmeal, Grits, Cream of (Hel(Hellmann’s)lmann’s) • Non-egg mayonnaise ingredients in Wheat without milk • Blackstrap (Mira(Miraclecle Whip) foods to avoid molasmolassesses • Margarine • • • Snacks • Packaged crackers (Ritz, Fish sauce, Honey, maple syrup anchovy paste (Aunt Jemima) Snack foods containingcontaining Triscuits,Triscuits, Wheat Thins, • • chocolate Graham Crackers) Spices mixed Oil, vinegar, non- • Puddings or • Pretzels (i.e. Rold Gold) witwithh ionized creamy salad • salt dressings custardscustards Potato Chips (Doritos, • • Ice cream, Ruffles,Ruffles, Cheetos) Fresh or dried herbs sherbet • Popcorn (Orville • Soy products • Beans • MealMeal Redenbacher)Redenbacher) Soy and vegan (milk(milk,, yogurt, • Hummus (Sabra) replacementreplacement • Sugary candies proteins cheese) • Protein powders and shakes conta • Fruit ice • Soy sauce bars from wheat or ining dairy or • Jell-O • Soy beans nuts soy milk (edamame) • SSoybeanoybean oil • Cream or milk • Coffee, tea • Tofu BeveragesBeverages • Any soda with • Juice, soda • Protein Red Dye No. 3 • (Gatorade, Dole, Pepsi powderspowders/bars/bars Lipton, Ocean Spray, with soy or Brisk, Tropicana) whey • Beer, wine, alcohol • Imitation meat (check with doctor) products • All fresh, frozen • None inclincludinguding Fish and or canned fish veggie burgers Seafood • All fresh, frozen • Breads • Homemade breads or canned BreaBreadsds containing • Breads that do not shelshellfishlfish “calcium containcontain iodate • Fish pastes, iodate” or ingredients saucesaucess “potassium • Imitation crab iodate” meat Cookbook: https://www.thyca.org/download/document/231/Cookbook.pdf References: http://www.thyca.org/pap-fol/lowiodinediet/

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