Alkaline 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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