Fruit – goose berries, granadilla, grapefruit, guava, lemon, lime, naartjie, orange, pomegranates, quince, strawberries, tangerine, kiwi fruit, pineapple, melons, watermelons, spanspek. Most fruit should be alkaline but with farmers spraying crops and irradiating we are not always getting what we should out of it.

Vegetables which are a mild starch – beetroot, carrot, cauliflower, mealies, squash, artichoke, parsnip, pumpkin, turnip, sweet potato.

Dairy – natural live yoghurt, butter, cream, goats cheese, feta, uncoloured cheese.

Nuts – pecan, walnuts, macadamia, cashew.

Proteins – eggs, dairy products, fish, meat, poultry, nuts, seeds, soya beans.

Protein starch – blackeye beans, broad beans, haricot beans, kidney beans, mung beans, sugar beans, dried peas, chestnuts, peanuts, peanut butter.

Starch – barley, bread, wheat, wheat products, pasta, rye, buchwheat, cereals, maize, oats, potatoes, rice, rice cakes, millet, sorghum.

Grains – maize meal, oats, oat bran, barley, rye, brown rice, maltabella, muesli.

Fats – butter, cream, avocado, olives, cold pressed oils, lecithin spread.

Miscellaneous – lentils, eggs, mayonaisse (homemade), marmite, raw honey, cold pressed olive oil, olives.

Substitute coffee – eura, chikree, cappafini, vital natures cuppa, postum.