Title: Acid-Alkaline Forming Foods

From: www.massage-energetics.com

By: Paula M. Moerland, LMT

With thanks to: www.ph-ion.com

All Rights Reserved. November 2008.

Acid-Alkaline Forming Foods

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.

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* (dangerous!)

Meat

Oils, cooked

Do not eat canola oil

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