Alkaline & Acid-Forming Foods
Alkaline-Forming Foods
Most alkaline-related foods are those higher in the minerals Sodium, Potassium, Magnesium and Calcium.
Sprouts (sprouted grains and seeds)
Vegetables
Seaweeds, Sea Vegetables
A few Ancient Grains: Millet, Quinoa, Amaranth, and Wild Rice (not cultivated)
Apple Cider Vinegar
Blackstrap Molasses (unsulfured)
Brown Rice Syrup
Raw honey and raw sugar
Stevia
Soy Sauce
Fruits (raw) (bananas must be ripe, speckled) Figs are the highest alkaline food you can eat.
Unsweetened Kefir and Soured Dairy
Cultured butter milk, cultured sour cream and cultured butter
Raw milk
Whey Protein Powder
Cultured “fermented” Vegetables
Sauerkraut
Kombucha
Free ranged eggs or wild eggs from ducks or quail, etc.
Most Herbs, herb teas and green teas
Wild greens like dandelions greens and lambs quarters
Seasonings and Spices
Baking soda (try to use baking soda that does not contain aluminum)
Sea Salt (Brittany Natural Sea Salt or Celtic Sea Salt)
Pumpkin seeds
Chestnuts (roasted)
Almonds
Fresh Coconut
Taro root
Arrowroot
Lotus root
Cod liver oil
Virgin Coconut Oil
Extra Virgin Olive oil
Bee Pollen
Fresh vegetable or Fruit juices
Hard water and mineral water
Bone meal
Coral Calcium
Herbal Coffee Substitutes
Vegetable broths
An Alkaline Balance:
1. Keeps the body in balance
2. Stimulates nerve action
3. Cools and soothes inflamed tissue, heals ulcerations, enhances cellular functions
4. Keeps the body healthy and gives it a certain amount of resistance to sickness and disease
5. Allows the body’s chemical processes to take place more efficiently
6. Is the key to regeneration and getting healthy
7. Aids in a sense of peace, kindness and love
Acid-Forming Foods
Foods primarily higher in the minerals Phosphorous, Chlorine and Nitrogen
Alcohol (Beer, Spirits, Hard liquor, Wine)
Cigarettes
Carbonated Soft Drinks (Pop) This is one of the most Acidic foods you can drink
Most Grains (Wheat, Spelt, Brown Rice, Barley, Oats, Teff, Kamut, Farina, Semolina, White Rice, etc) and all their flours
Cornstarch
Breads and Pastas
Cereals
Sugars, (White, beet, Cane)
Sweet ‘N Low
Equal, NutraSweet, Spoonful and other Aspartame products.
Processes sweeteners (like sulfured molasses, processed Maple syrup, processed honey)
Commercially made soy sauce
Legumes (beans)
Lentils
Peanuts and peanut butter
Cashews
Sesame seeds
Store bought eggs
Coffee
Black Tea
Dairy Products (especially store bought-which is pasteurized, and homogenized -cottage cheese, milk, yogurt, cheese, cream, powdered, canned malted, dried, ice cream and custard)
Frozen, bottled or canned fruit and vegetable juices
Tomato sauce
Vanilla Extract
Balsamic Vinegar
All drugs, medicines, pesticides, herbicides, etc.
Soy products, soy cheeses, soymilk
Almond milk, Rice milk
All Meats (Wild and Domestic, Land and Sea)
Refined seed oils
All canned foods
All canned foods with sugar
Anything sulfured
Anything artificial
Table salt
Anything sweetened
Most processed foods
An Acidic Balance:
1. Decreases the body’s ability to absorb minerals and other nutrients
2. Decreases the energy production in the cells (the body will have low energy and become chronically fatigued)
3. Decreases the body’s ability to repair damaged cells
4. Decreases the body’s ability to detoxify heavy metals
5. Inhibits nerve actions
6. Makes the body more susceptible to illness
7. Leaches important minerals from mineral stores (the bones and organs) to balance the system eventually causing osteoporosis, fractures, and bone spurs
8. Can cause cardiovascular damage including constriction of the blood vessels and the reduction of oxygen
9. Causes weight gain, obesity, and diabetes
10. Causes bladder and kidney conditions including kidney stones
11. Causes joint pain, aching muscles and lactic acid buildup.
12. Immunodeficiency
13. Causes accelerated free radical damage, possibly contributing to cancerous mutations and it allows tumor cells to thrive once they are growing
14. Causes and accelerates premature aging
15. Makes the body more prone to allergies, headaches, yeast infections, boils, canker sores, blood sugar problems, bursitis, arthritis and rheumatism. Etc.
16. Aids in causing a person to feel overworked, and to struggle with anger, fear, jealousy, and stress.