Acid and Alkaline Forming Foods

Alkaline Forming Foods

Foods higher in the minerals Sodium, Potassium, Magnesium and Calcium

Acid Forming Foods

Foods higher in the minerals Phosphorous, Chlorine and Nitrogen

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

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 Alkaline Body will:

An Acidic Body will:

1. Keep the body in balance
    

2. Stimulate nerve action
    

3. Cool and soothe inflamed tissue, heal ulcerations, enhance cellular functions
    

4. Keep the body healthy and give it a certain amount of resistance to sickness and disease
    

5. Allow the body’s chemical processes to take place more efficiently
    

6. Be the key to regeneration and getting healthy
    

7. Aid in a sense of peace, kindness and love

1. Decrease the body’s ability to absorb minerals and other nutrients
    
2. Decrease the energy production in the cells (the body will have low energy and become chronically fatigued)
    
3. Decrease the body’s ability to repair damaged cells
    
4. Decrease it’s ability to detoxify heavy metals
    
5. Inhibit nerve actions
    
6. Make the body more susceptible to illness
    
7. Leach important minerals from mineral stores (the bones and organs) to balance the system eventually causing osteoporosis, fractures, and bone spurs
    
8. Cause cardiovascular damage, including constriction of the blood vessels and the reduction of oxygen
    
9. Cause weight gain, obesity, and diabetes
    
10. Cause bladder and kidney conditions, including kidney stones
     
11. Cause joint pain, aching muscles and lactic acid buildup
     
12. Cause immunodeficiency
     
13. Cause accelerated free radical damage, possibly contributing to cancerous mutations, and it allows tumor cells to thrive once they are growing
     
14. Cause premature aging
     
15. Make the body more prone to allergies, headaches, yeast infections, boils, canker sores, blood sugar problems, bursitis, arthritis and rheumatism, etc.
     
16. Aid in causing a person to feel overworked, and to struggle with  anger, fear, jealousy, and stress