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Alkalizing and Acidifying Foods
Numbers below represent alkaline rating with 0 being neutral – these are not pH numbers
ALKALIZING FOODS
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Eat All You Want ACIDIFYING FOODS Limit Consumption
VEGETABLES
Alfalfa Grass +29.3 Asparagus +1.3 Barley Grass +28.1 Beets +11.3 Bell Peppers Broccoli Brussel Sprouts +0.5 Cabbage +14.1 Carrot +9.5 Cauliflower +3.1 Cayenne Pepper +18.8 Celery +13.3 Cucumber +31.5 Eggplant Garlic +13.2 Green Beans +11.2 Horseradish +6.8 Lettuce +2.2 Mushrooms Onions +3.1 Peas +5.1 Peppers Potatoes +2.0 Pumpkin Radishes +16.7 Red Cabbage +6.3 Rutabaga +3.1 Sea Veggies Spinach, green +13.1 Sprouts +28.5 Squash Sweet Potatoes/Yams +6 Tomatoes +13.6 Turnip Watercress +7.7 Wheat Grass +33.8 Zucchini +5.7
FRUITS
Avocado +15.6
SLIGHTLY ACIDIC Eat Sensibly
VEGETABLES
Corn Olives
FRUITS
Many fruits actually have an alkalizing effect and provide so many nutrients we need.
Apple Apricot -9.5 Banana, ripe -10.1 Blueberries -5.3 Blackberries Cantaloupe -2.5 Cherries, sweet -3.6 Cranberries Currants -8.2 Dates, dried -4.7 Figs, dried -2.4 Grapes -7.6 Grapefruit -1.7 Honeydew Melon Mandarin Orange -11.5 Mango -8.7 Nectarine Orange -9.2 Papaya -9.4 Peach -9.7 Pear -9.9 Pineapple -12.6 Plum, red fleshed -4.9 Plum, yellow flesh -4.9 Raisins Raspberries -5.1 Rhubarb Strawberries -5.4 Tangerine -8.5 Watermelon -1.0 Yellow Flesh Plums -4.9
PROCESSED GRAIN PRODUCTS
Noodles Macaroni Spaghetti Bread Crackers, soda Flour, white or wheat
DAIRY
Butter -3.9 Buttermilk +1.3 Cheese -18.1 Cheese, Processed Ice Cream Ice Milk Milk -1.0
ANIMAL PROTEIN
Bacon -38.0 Beef -34.5 Chicken -18.0 Clams -5.0 Corned Beef -35.0 Eggs – 18.0 Lamb Liver -3.0 Lobster Mussels Organ Meats -3.0 Oyster -5.0 Pork -38.0 Sardines, in sauce -25.0 Sausage Scallops Shrimp Scallops Shellfish Turkey -18.0 Veal Venison
Banana, unripe +4.8 Cherries, sour +3.5 Coconut, fresh +.05 Lemon +9.9 Lime +8.2
BEANS
Black Beans Buckwheat +0.5 Chick Peas/Garbanzo Beans Green Peas Kidney Beans Lentils +0.6 Lima Beans +12.0 Pinto Beans Soy Nuts +26.5 Soybeans, fresh +12.0 Tofu +3.2 White Beans +12.1 Navy Beans +12.1
NUTS
Almonds +3.6 Brazil Nuts +0.5 Chestnuts
SEEDS
Caraway +2.3 Cumin +1.1 Fennel +1.3 Flax +1.3 Pumpkin +5.6 Sesame +0.5 Sunflower +5.4 Wheat Kernel +11.4
MINERALS
Cesium: pH 14 Potassium: pH 14 Sodium: pH 14 Calcium: pH 12 Magnesium: pH 9
SPICES & SEASONINGS
Cinnamon Curry Ginger
GRAIN
Barley Bran, wheat Bran, oat Corn Cornstarch Hemp Seed Flour Oats rolled, oatmeal Quinoa Rice Rice, brown -12.5 Rye Wheat -10.1 Wheat Germ
NUTS
Cashews -9.3 Hazelnuts -2.0 Macadamia -3.2 Peanuts -12.8 Peanut Butter Pecans Walnuts -8.0
FISH
Freshwater Fish -11.8 Saltwater Fish -20 Salmon Sardines Trout Tuna
FATS & OILS
Avacado Oil Butter -3.9 Canola Oil Corn Oil -6.5 Hemp Seed Oil Flax Oil Lard Margarine –7.5 Olive Oil Safflower Oil Sesame Oil Sunflower Oil -6.7
SWEETENERS
Artificial Sweeteners -26.5 Carob Honey – 7.6 Sugar, white – 33.6 Corn Syrup High Fructose Corn Syrup -38.5
ALCOHOL
Beer -26.8 Spirits -38.7 Hard Liquor -38.7 Wine -16.4
OTHER FOODS
Ketchup -12.4 Coffee -25.1 Vinegar -39.4 Mustard -19.2 Pepper Soy Sauce -36.2 Soft Drinks
DRUGS & CHEMICALS
Aspirin Chemicals Drugs, Medicinal Drugs, Psychedelic Pesticides Herbicides Tobacco
Mustard Chili Pepper Sea Salt All Herbs
OTHER
Apple Cider Vinegar Bee Pollen Lecithin Granules Molasses, blackstrap Green Juices Veggie Juices Fresh Fruit Juice Mineral Water Alkaline Antioxidant Water
SWEETNERS
Stevia
JUNK FOOD
Coca-Cola: pH 2 Beer: pH 2.5 Coffee: pH 4 Candy Snack cakes Chips, all
The chart above was gathered from a number of sources. There is a difference between what is alkalizing and what is acidifying depending on source, as various methods are used to determine this. Some researchers use the alkaline content of a food; others try to determine the effect on the body – citrus fruit on the surface appears to be acidic for example, but has a neutralizing affect when consumed; other researchers have come up with a number, as in the chart above, in which they use mineral content to determine the rating.
Use your good judgment on determining which acidic foods to eat. For instance, Salmon, tuna and even sardines provide Omega fatty acids which are important to health. Don’t cut these out of your diet because of the acidifying ratings. Use reason. I eat hamburgers and other meats because I like them, but I don’t do it every day or in large quantities. I want to keep my pancreas healthy.
About pH: pH is recorded on a level from 0 to 14, with 0 to 6.9 being acidic, 7 neutral and 7.1 to 14 alkaline. The human body should be around 7.35 to 7.5 for optimal health. When we eat foods, the pancreas works to turn the digested particles alkaline as they enter the blood stream. It takes 750,000 times the effort to turn a soda with a pH 2 to a pH 7.5 as it does to change a pH 7 food to pH 7.5. Each level takes 10 times the effort.
