• All Meat (beef, pork, lamb, chicken and fish)
  • Rice (white, brown and basmati)
  • Cornmeal, oats rye, spelt, wheat, bran
  • Popcorn
  • Pastas
  • Bread and most other grain products like cereals (hot or cold), crackers and pastries
  • The following beans (unless sprouted, in which case they become alkaline producing): pinto, navy, mung, lentils, black, garbanzo, red, white, adzuki, and broad
  • Cheese (parmesan is the worst, along with the sharper cheeses
  • Sunflower, pumpkin, sesame, and squash seeds
  • Wheat germ
  • The following nuts: walnuts, pecans, cashews, dried coconut (fresh is alkaline), pistachios, macadamias, filberts, brazil nuts, and peanuts
  • Colas
  • Practically all drugs
  • Alcoholic drinks
  • Coffee and other caffeinated drinks
  • Sweetened yogurt
  • Most forms of sweeteners (artificial sweeteners, cane sugar, beet sugar, barley syrup, processed honey, maple syrup, molasses, fructose, lactose)
  • Refined table salt
  • Soy sauce
  • Mustard (dried powder and processed)
  • Ketchup unless homemade
  • Mayonnaise unless homemade
  • Nutmeg
  • White vinegar (apple cider and sweet brown rice vinegar are less acid)
  • Tobacco
  • Pasteurized dairy and conventionally raised eggs
  • Garlic
  • Cayenne pepper
  • Most all herbs

 

  • Practically all vegetables
  • Practically all fruits with the exception of blueberries, plums, prunes, and cranberries. Even citrus is alkaline producing in the body.
  • Beans such as string, soy, lima, green, and snap
  • Peas
  • Potatoes
  • Arrowroot flour
  • Grains such as flax, millet, quinoa, and amaranth
  • Nuts like almonds, pignoli, fresh coconut and chestnuts
  • Sprouted seeds of alfalfa, radish and chia
  • Unsprouted sesame
  • Fresh unsalted butter
  • Milk (unpasteurized organically raised)
  • Cream (unpasteurized organically raised)
  • Goats milk (unpasteurized organically raised)
  • Eggs (unpasteurized organically raised)
  • Whey
  • Sweeteners like raw unpasteurized honey, dried sugar cane juice (sucanat) brown rice syrup
  • Fruit juices
  • All vegetable juices
  • Most herbal teas
  • Miso
  • Most vegetable and unprocessed sea salt
  • Most spices
  • Vanilla extract
  • Brewers yeast
  • Most unprocessed, cold pressed oils are neutral or alkaline forming
  • Fermented foods
  • Gelatin