Alkaline Foods and Eating Raw

Alkaline Foods

Alkaline foods are foods that raise the the amount of oxygen that your blood takes in. The most alkalizing foods are RAW green leafy vegetables, non-sweetfruits and (wheat) grasses. The opposite of alkaline foods are acid foods.

How much oxygen your blood can absorb is measured on a pH scale that ranges from 0 to 14. A pH of 0 is most acidic while a pH of 14 is most alkaline.

The Right Acid - Alkaline Balance

Our blood is in balance when we're slightly alkaline: with a pH of 7.365.

In the beginning of the 20th century, very smart scientists and nobel prize winners made a great discovery. If our blood cannot absorb enough oxygen we get sick: cancer, heart issues, arthritis and candida infections, diabetes are the result.

You know that our body tries to maintain a constant temperature 98.5F or 37C. But but do you know that your body tries even harder to maintain the right amount of oxygen in your blood (a pH of 7.365)? When our pH is too high or too low, we don't feel well, we feel tired, gain weight, have poor digestion and get aches and pains.

Most people in the US and Europe are too acidic: they cannot absorb enough oxygen. That's why cancer, heart disease, arthritis,diabetes are epidemic.

Why are we too acidic? The famous four:

• Stress;
• Toxins;
• Parasites; and
• The FOOD we eat.

Acid Foods List

It's too bad that the foods we like most make us most acidic and thus sick. What are these food? You guessed right:

• Junk & Processed foods;
• Sugar;
• All animal food (meat, eggs, chicken, fish, lobster, oysters);
• Grains: (white) wheat, rice, pasta, flour, bread etc.;
• Some Fruits;
• Dairy products (milk, cheese, butter);
• Bad fats;
• Peanuts, cashews.

Alkaline Foods List

During most of our lives, the majority of the foods we eat are (highly) acidic. These make us sick and tired. By eating raw alkaline foods and drinks, we can help our body to heal it self from most diseases:

• Vegetables - especially raw green leafy vegetables.
• Fresh Herbs & Spice - parsley, basil, cilantro, cayenne, ginger;
• Fruits - watermelon, avocado, cucumber, young coconuts;
• Wheat grass;
• Sprouts: i.e. alfalfa, mung bean, broccoli etc.

The best alkaline drinks are alkaline water, young coconut water,vegetable juice and wheatgrass juice. If your very acidic you might need alkaline supplements to get you back in balance quicker.

How Acid Are You?

How do you know your body pH? I love this one, because it's incredibly easy to find out what your alkalinity is. You simply buy some pH test strips (also called litmus paper) at a health store and pee on it. The paper will tell you instantly what your pH is and thus, how alkaline or acid you are.

Here are 8 easy steps for testing your pH.

The Best & Cheapest Alkaline Foods

Would you like to know the best and cheapest alkalizing foods? Edible wild plants! They're highly alkaline, abundant, fresh and free! Just throwing a few of them in your salad will help balancing you.

Alkaline Food List

An alkaline food list is a list of foods that make you more alkaline after you've digested them. Not all raw food is alkalizing. And, some acid foods actually increase your pH.

For example, a lemon is acid when you eat it, but alkalizing after you've digested it. Because you can't know if a food is alkalizing or acidifying by looking at it I've added a list below that tells you just that.

For a balanced raw food diet it is important to eat a significant amount of alkalizing foods.

As a general rule the following foods groups are alkalizing:

• Green leafy vegetables (e.g. spinach, kale);
• Wild edibles (e.g., dandelion, nettles, wild grasses);
• Fresh herbs (e.g. parsley, cilantro, basil, garlic);
• Grasses (e.g. wheat, barley grass);
• Sprouts;
• Sea vegetables (e.g. kelp, nori, dulse, spirulina, blue green algae);
• Medicinal mushrooms (e.g. shiitake, maitake, reishi).

The right alkaline balance is critical to good health. To see how acid or alkaline you are, you can do a simple test using pH test strips (litmus paper).

When you're just starting a raw food diet, it may be hard to become alkaline. Even if you eat raw greens all day. I find that juicing greens (with fruits or herbs) speeds up this process tremendously, but it may still not be enough.

I that case, you may want to use some alkalizing supplements. Examples are (Himalayan) sea salt, coral calcium, silica, pH drops, green powder or other super foods.

In short, the list of alkaline food is all that's raw and green (especially greens, sea vegetables, superfoods and herbs) and an acid food list is all animal products, grains, sugars.

For the complete list you can download the page below:

Acid and Alkaline Food List

Acidic Forming Foods

Meat/Poultry/Sea

food

Beef

Chicken

Clams

Crab

Duck

Fish

Goose

Lamb

Lobster

Oysters

Pork

Shellfish

Turkey

Veal

Condiments/Dres

sings

Jams

Ketchup Mayonnaise

Mustard

Soy sauce

Vinegar

Breads/Flours

Cereals

Corn (processed)

Corn meals

Cornstarch

Pasta (all, except

Vegetable pasta and

Spelt pasta)

Rye bread

Rye flour

White biscuit

White bread

Whole grain bread

Whole meal bread

Fats

Butter

Canola oil

Corn oil

Margarine/Vegetabl

e oil Sunflower oil

Dairy Products

Butter

Cheeses

Eggs & egg products

Milk

Beverages

Wine

Beer

Liquor

Coffee

Processed juices

Soda drinks

Sport drinks

Black tea

Fruits/Vegetables

Preserved fruits

Preserved

vegetables

Canned fruits

Canned,

Artificially dried,

roasted,

sweetened

Glazed fruits

Jellied fruits

Processed veggies

White tips

Asparagus

Canned olives

Pickled vegetables

Nuts/Seeds

Cashews

Peanuts

Roasted nuts

Salted nuts

Walnuts

Grains/Legumes

Brown rice

Wheat White rice

Sweets

Artificial sweeteners

Barley malt sugar

Molasses

Pies

Sugar, refined cane

Beet sugar

Cakes

Chocolate

Cookies

Doughnuts

Honey

Alkali Forming Foods

Vegetables

Alfalfa

Alfalfa grass

Alfalfa sprouts

Artichokes

Asparagus (green

tips)

Bamboo shoots

Beans

Beets

Beet tops

Bell Peppers

Broccoli

Cabbage (white)

Carrot tops

Carrots

Cauliflower

Celery

Chard

Chayote

Chicory

Chives

Collards

Cucumbers

Dandelions

Dills

Endives

Garlic

Greens (leafy)

Horseradish

Jerusalem artichoke

Kale

Kelp

Leek

Lettuce

Okra

Olives (ripe/black)

Onion

Oyster plant

Parsley

Parsnips

Peas (fresh)

Pumpkin

Radish

Rutabagas

Spinach

Sprouts (all)

Summer squash

Swiss chard

Turnips

Watercress

Wheat grass

Zucchini

Fruits

Avocado

Banana (unripe)

Grapefruit (sour)

Lemon/Lime

Tomatoes

Grains/Legumes

Buckwheat

Millet

Spelt Lentils

Lima beans

White beans

Beverages

Fresh coconut water

Distilled water

Fats/Oils

Olive oil

Flaxseed oil

Dairy Products

Goat milk

Goat cheese

Breads/Flours

Sprouted bread

Spelt bread

Quinoa

Spelt Pasta

Nuts & Seeds

Almonds

Cumin seeds

Fennel seeds

Sesame

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