Alkaline Foods Acid Foods

Alkaline Vegetables Fruits Meats Dairy Products

Asparagus Lemon Pork Milk
Artichokes Lime Lamb Eggs
Cabbage Avocado Beef Cheese
Lettuce Tomato Chicken Cream
Onion Grapefruit Turkey Yogurt
Cauliflower Watermelon (is Crustaceans Ice Cream
Radish neutral) Other Seafood
Swede Rhubarb (apart from
Lambs Lettuce occasional oily fish
Peas such as salmon)
Courgette
Red Cabbage
Drinks Others Drinks
Leeks
'Green Drinks' Vinegar Fizzy Drinks
Watercress
Fresh vegetable White Pasta Coffee
Spinach
juice White Bread Tea
Turnip
Pure water (distilled Wholemeal Bread Beers
Chives
or ionised) Biscuits Spirits
Carrot
Lemon water (pure Soy Sauce Fruit Juice
Green Beans
water + fresh lemon Tamari Dairy Smoothies
Beetroot
or lime). Condiments Milk
Garlic
Herbal Tea (Tomato Sauce, Traditional Tea
Celery
Vegetable broth Mayonnaise etc.)
Grasses (wheat,
Non-sweetened Soy Artificial
straw, barley, dog,
Milk Sweeteners
kamut etc.)
Almond Milk Honey
Cucumber
Broccoli
Kale Seeds, Nuts & Convenience Fats & Oils
Brussels Sprouts Grains Foods Saturated Fats
Almonds Sweets Hydrogenated Oils
Pumpkin Chocolate Margarine (worse
Sunflower Microwave Meals than Butter)
Sesame Tinned Foods Corn Oil
Flax Powdered Soups Vegetable Oil
Buckwheat Groats Instant Meals Sunflower Oil
Spelt Fast Food
Lentils
Cumin Seeds
Any sprouted seed

Fats & Oils Others Fruits Seeds & Nuts

Flax Sprouts (soy, All fruits aside Peanuts
Hemp alfalfa, mung bean, from those listed in Cashew Nuts
Avocado wheat, little radish , the alkaline Pistachio Nuts
Olive chickpea, broccoli column.
Evening Primrose etc)
Borage Bragg Liquid
Coconut Oil Aminos (Soy Sauce
Oil Blends (such as Alternative)
Udo's Choice) Hummus
Tahini
General Guidance: General Guidance:
Steer clear of fatty meats, dairy, cheese,
Stick to salads, fresh, alkaline vegetables sweets, chocolates, alcohol and
and healthy nuts and oils. Try to tobacco. Packaged foods are often full
consume plenty of raw foods and at least of hidden offenders and microwave
2-3 litres of clean, pure water daily meals are full of sugars and salts. Over
(ideally enhanced with pH drops). cooking also removes all of the nutrition
from a meal!

The pH of Foods
The relative alkalinity or acidity of food is measured by the pH value of the ash
residue that remains after the food has been metabolised by our body. This ash
can be acid, alkaline or neutral depending largely upon the mineral content of the
food.
As a basic rule - potassium, calcium, magnesium, zinc, silver, sodium and iron
leave an alkaline residue while sulphur, chlorine, phosphorous and iodine create
an acid environment.
The foods that are either alkalising or acidifying are very easy to categorise. The
common sense 'bad' foods (sugar, refined foods, foods high in saturated fat and
trans fats, meat, dairy, yeast, fizzy drinks, crisps, chocolate, alcohol etc) all leave
an acid ash. Conversely, the common sense 'good foods' (salads, vegetables etc)
are alkalising.
The confusing food for many people is fruit. The bottom line is that due to the
extremely high sugar content, most fruits have an acidifying effect on the body.
This is a great shame due to the nutrients that they also contain. However, the
con's outweigh the pro's. The fruits that are an exception to this rule include:
avocado, lime, lemon, watermelon and tomato
Food pH Chart
The pH score given is an approximate relative potential of acidity (-) or alkalinity
(+) within one ounce of food:
Alkalising Foods/Drinks Relative pH Acidifying Foods/Drinks Relative pH
Cucumber +31.5 Pork -38.0
Alfalfa Sprouts +29.3 Veal -35
Soy Sprouts +29.5 Beef -34.5
Avocado +15.6 Chicken -18
Tomato +13.6 Eggs -18
Summer Radish +39.4 Hard Cheese -18.1
Kamut Grass +27.6 Quark -17.3
Carrot +9.5 Cream -3.9
Soy Beans (soaked) +12.8 White Bread -10
Soy Lecithin (pure) +38 Wholemeal Bread -6.5
Cabbage +14.1 Rye Bread -2.5
Celery +13.3 Pistachios -16.6
Garlic +13.2 Peanuts -12.8
Spinach +13.1 Cashews -9.3
Watercress +7.7 Margarine -7.5
Leeks +7.2 Corn Oil -6.5
Courgette +5.7 Butter -3.9
Fresh Soy Beans +12 Artificial Sweeteners -26.5
Tofu +3.2 Chocolate -24.6
Lemons +9.9 White Sugar -17.6
Limes +8.2 Fructose -9.5
Cucumber +31.5 Honey -7.6
Wheatgrass +33.8 Ketchup -12.4
Sprouted Radish Seeds +28.4 Mayonnaise -12.5
Barley Grass +28.1 Mustard -19.2
Red Cabbage +6.3 Soy Sauce -26.2
Almonds +3.6 Vinegar -39.4
Olive Oil +1 Liquor -38.7
Flax Seed Oil +3.5 Wine -16.4
Turnip +8 Beer -26.8
Asparagus +1.3 Coffee -25.1
Onion +3.0 Fruit Juice (Natural) -8.7
Watermelon -1.0 Fruit Juice (Processed) -33.6
Tea (Black) -27.1
*Source - Back to the House of Health (Redford-Young, S)