Type of Food
Foods to Avoid
Acceptable Foods

Beans

 

 Canned pork and beans, canned beans with salt or preservatives, frozen beans. All beans (especially soy) cooked without animal fat or salt.

Beverages

 Alcoholic drinks, coffee, cocoa, pasteurized and/or sweetened juices and fruit drinks, sodas, tea (except herbal tea). Herbal teas, fresh vegetable and fruit juices, cereal grain beverages (often sold as coffee substitutes), mineral or distilled water.

Dairy Products

 All soft cheeses, all pasteurized or artificially coloured cheese products, ice cream. Raw goat cheese, nonfat cottage cheese, kefir, unsweetened yogurt, goat's milk, raw or skim milk, buttermilk.

Eggs

 Fried or pickled. Boiled or poached (limit of four weekly).

Fish

 All fried fish, all shellfish, salted fish, anchovies, herring, fish canned in oil. All freshwater white fish, salmon, broiled or baked fish, water-packed tuna.

Fruits

 

 Canned, bottled, or frozen fruits with sweeteners added, oranges. All fresh, frozen, stewed, or dried fruits without sweeteners (except oranges, which are acidic and highly allergenic), unsulfured fruits, home-canned fruits.

Grains

 All white flour products, white rice, pasta, crackers, cold cereals, instant types of oatmeal and other hot cereals. All whole grains and products containing whole grains: cereals, breads, muffins, whole-grain crackers, cream of wheat or rye cereal, buckwheat, millet, oats, brown rice, wild rice. (Limit yeast breads to three servings per week.)

Beware of gluten intolerance.

Meats

 

 Beef; all forms of pork; hot dogs; luncheon meats; smoked, pickled, and processed meats; corned beef: duck; goose; spare ribs; gravies; organ meats. Skinless turkey and chicken, lamb. (Limit meat to three 3-oz servings per week.)

Nuts

 

 All salted or roasted nuts; peanuts (if suffering from any disorder). All fresh raw nuts (peanuts in moderation only).

Oils (fats)

 All saturated fats, hydrogenated margarine, refined processed oils, shortenings, hardened oils. All cold-pressed oils: corn, safflower, sesame, olive, flaxseed, soybean, sunflower, and canola oils; margarine made from these oils: eggless mayonnaise.

Seasonings

 Black or white pepper, salt, hot red peppers, all types of vinegar except pure natural apple cider vinegar. Garlic, onions, cayenne, Spike, all herbs, dried vegetables, apple cider vinegar, tamari, miso, seaweed, dulse.

Soups

 

 Canned soups made with salt, preservatives, MSG, or fat stock; all creamed soups. Homemade (salt- and fat-free) bean, lentil, pea, vegetable, barley, brown rice, onion.

Sprouts and Seeds

 All seeds cooked in oil or salt. All slightly cooked sprouts (except alfalfa, which should be raw and washed thoroughly), wheatgrass, all raw seeds.

Sweets

 White, brown, or raw cane sugar, corn syrups, chocolate, sugar candy, fructose (except that in fresh whole fruit), all syrups (except pure maple syrup), all sugar substitutes, jams and jellies made with sugar. Barley malt or rice syrup, small amounts of raw honey, pure maple syrup, stevia, unsulfured blackstrap molasses.

Vegetables

 All canned or frozen with salt or additives. All raw, fresh, frozen (no additives), or home-canned without salt (undercook vegetables slightly).