Acidic Foods List

The following list is intended as a general guide to acidic foods.

To maintain health, the diet should consist of 60% alkaline forming foods, and 40% acidic foods.

To restore health, the diet should consist of 80% alkaline forming foods,and 20% acidic foods.

See "Alkaline Diet" for more detailed information.

ACIDIFYING VEGETABLES Corn; Lentils; Olives; Winter Squash.

ACIDIFYING FRUITS Blueberries; Canned or Glazed Fruits; Cranberries; Currants; Plums**; Prunes**.
**These foods leave an alkaline ash but have an acidifying effect on the body.

ACIDIFYING GRAINS AND GRAIN PRODUCTS Amaranth; Barley; Bran, oat; Bran, wheat; Bread; Corn; Cornstarch; Crackers, soda; Flour, wheat; Flour, white; Hemp Seed Flour; Kamut; Macaroni; Noodles; Oatmeal; Oats (rolled); Quinoa; Rice (all); Rice Cakes; Rye; Spaghetti; Spelt Wheat; Germ Wheat.

ACIDIFYING BEANS & LEGUMES Almond Milk; Black Beans; Chick Peas; Green Peas; Kidney Beans; Lentils; Pinto Beans; Red Beans; Rice Milk; Soy Beans; Soy Milk; White Beans.

ACIDIFYING DAIRY Butter; Cheese; Cheese, Processed; Ice Cream; Ice Milk.

ACIDIFYING NUTS & BUTTERS Cashews; Legumes; Peanut Butter; Peanuts; Pecans; Tahini; Walnuts.

ACIDIFYING ANIMAL PROTEIN Bacon; Beef; Carp; Clams; Cod; Corned Beef; Fish; Haddock; Lamb; Lobster; Mussels; Organ Meats; Oyster; Pike; Pork; Rabbit; Salmon; Sardines; Sausage; Scallops; Shellfish; Shrimp; Tuna; Turkey; Veal; Venison.

ACIDIFYING FATS & OILS Avacado Oil; Butter; Canola Oil; Corn Oil; Flax Oil; Hemp Seed Oil; Lard; Olive Oil; Safflower Oil; Sesame Oil; Sunflower Oil.

ACIDIFYING SWEETENERS Carob; Corn Syrup; Sugar.

ACIDIFYING ALCOHOL Beer; Hard Liquor; Spirits; Wine.

ACIDIFYING OTHER FOODS Catsup; Cocoa; Coffee; Mustard; Pepper; Soft Drinks; Vinegar.

ACIDIFYING DRUGS & CHEMICALS Aspirin; Chemicals; Drugs, Medicinal; Drugs, Psychedelic; Herbicides; Pesticides; Tobacco.

ACIDIFYING JUNK FOOD Beer: pH 2.5; Coca-Cola: pH 2; Coffee: pH 4.

To neutralize a glass of cola with a pH of 2.5, it would take 32 glasses of alkaline water with a pH of 10. In combination with water, your body will draw calcium and magnesium from the bones to buffer an acidic diet.

Acid: Overwork, Anger, Fear, Jealousy & Stress

Extremely Acid Forming Foods - pH 5.0 to 5.5
pH 5.0...Artificial sweeteners 41.
pH 5.5...Beef, Carbonated soft drinks & fizzy drinks 38, Cigarettes (tailor made), Drugs, Flour (white, wheat) 39, Goat, Lamb, Pastries & cakes from white flour, Pork, Sugar (white) 40, Beer 34, Brown sugar 35, Chicken, Deer, Chocolate, Coffee 36, Custard with white sugar, Jams, Jellies, Liquor 37, Pasta (white), Rabbit, Semolina, Table salt refined and iodized, Tea black, Turkey, Wheat bread, White rice, White vinegar(processed).

Moderate Acid - pH 6.0 to 6.5
pH 6.0...Cigarette tobacco (roll your own), Cream of Wheat (unrefined), Fish, Fruit juices with sugar, Maple syrup (processed), Molasses (sulphured), Pickles (commercial), Breads (refined) of corn, oats, rice & rye, Cereals (refined) eg, weetbix, corn flakes, Shellfish, Wheat germ, Whole Wheat foods 32, Wine 33, Yogurt (sweetened) pH 6.5...Bananas (green), Buckwheat, Cheeses (sharp), Corn & rice breads, Egg whole (cooked hard), Ketchup, Mayonnaise, Oats, Pasta (whole grain), Pastry (wholegrain & honey), Peanuts, Potatoes (with no skins), Popcorn (with salt & butter), Rice (basmati), Rice (brown), Soy sauce (commercial), Tapioca, Wheat bread (sprouted organic).

Slightly Acid to Neutral pH 7.0
ph 7.0...Barley malt syrup, Barley, Bran, Cashews, Cereals (unrefined with honey-fruit-maple syrup), Cornmeal, Cranberries 30, Fructose, Honey (pasteurized), Lentils, Macadamias, Maple syrup (unprocessed), Milk (homogenized) and most processed dairy products, Molasses (unsulphered organic) 31, Nutmeg, Mustard, Pistachios, Popcorn & butter (plain), Rice or wheat crackers (unrefined), Rye (grain), Rye bread (organic sprouted), Seeds (pumpkin & sunflower), Walnuts Blueberries, Brazil nuts, Butter (salted), Cheeses (mild & crumbly) 28, Crackers (unrefined rye), Dried beans (mung, adzuki, pinto, kidney, garbanzo) 29, Dry coconut, Egg whites, Goats milk (homogenized), Olives (pickled), Pecans, Plums 30, Prunes 30, Spelt.

NOTE: Match with the numbers above.
28. Mucus forming and hard to digest.
29. When sprouted dry beans rate 7.0.
30. Contain acid-forming benzoic and quinic acids.
31. Full of iron.
32. Unrefined wheat is more alkaline.
33. High quality red wine, no more than 4 oz. daily to build blood.
34. Good quality, well brewed - up to 5.5. Fast brewed beers drop to 5.0.
35. Most are white sugars with golden syrup added.
36. Organic, fresh ground-up to 5.5.
37. Cheaper brands drop to 5.0, as does over-indulgence.
38. Leaches minerals.
39. Bleached - has no goodness.
40. Poison! Avoid it.
41. Potential cancer agent. Over-indulgence may cause partial blindness.