Alkaline Foods

Alkaline Foods

Fruit – most fruit in season.
Sub-acid fruit – apples, apricots, berries, cherries, grapes, litchis, loquats, mango, nectarine, peach, pear, prickly pear, plum. Sweet fruit – banana, dates, figs, paw paw, prunes, raisins, sultanas.

Vegetables – avocado pear, artichoke, asparagus, brinjal, beans, bean sprouts, beetroot, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, courgettes, cucumber, garlic? green peas, gemsquash, leeks, lettuce, maize, marrows, mushrooms, millet, onions, parsnips, parsley, potatoes, pumpkin, peppers, spinach, sweet potato, turnip and all other vegetables not listed. Dairy – cottage cheese. Milk is alkaline and because it has been pasturised I feel that if your body is acid it will become acid.

Nuts and seeds – almond, hazel, brazil, sunflower, sesame.

Herbal tea – camomile, rooibos, peppermint, rosehip, nettle, hibicus, linden flower, comfrey, sage, fennel, honeybush, anise, dandelion, devils claw, parsley and other herbs not listed. Fresh is best.