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All meat (beef, pork, lamb, chicken) and fish |
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Rice (white, brown, or basmati) |
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Cornmeal, oats, rye, spelt, wheat, bran |
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Popcorn |
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Pastas |
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Breads and most other grain products like cereals (hot or cold), crackers, pastries |
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The following beans (unless sprouted in which case they become alkaline-producing): pinto, navy, mung, lentils, black, garbanzo, red, white, adzuki, and broad |
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Cheese (parmesan is the worst, followed by other sharper cheeses) |
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Sunflower and pumpkin seeds |
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Wheat germ |
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The following nuts: walnuts, pecans, cashews, dried coconut, (fresh coconut is alkaline producing), pistachios, macadamias, filberts, Brazil nuts and peanuts. |
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Colas and carbonated drinks |
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Alcoholic drinks |
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Coffee and other caffeinated drinks |
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Sweetened yogurt |
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Most forms of sweeteners (artificial sweeteners, cane sugar, beet sugar, barley syrup, processed honey, maple syrup, molasses, fructose, lactose) |
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Refine table salt |
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Soy sauce |
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Mustard (dried powder and processed) |
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Ketchup (unless natural and homemade) |
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Mayonnaise (unless natural and homemade) |
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White vinegar (apple cider and sweet brown rice vinegar are less acid-producing and preferred) |
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Nutmeg |
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Tobacco |
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Practically all drugs |
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Almost all vegetables (except peppers, beets) |
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Practically all fruits with the exception of blueberries, plums, prunes, and cranberries. Even citrus fruits such as lemons, which we think of as being acidic, are alkaline-producing in the body. They are rich in organic salts, like citrates, which are being converted into bicarbonates. |
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Beans such as string, soy, lima, green and snap |
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Peas |
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Potatoes |
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Arrowroot flour |
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Grains such as flax, millet, quinoa, and amaranth |
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Nuts like almonds, pignoli, fresh coconut and chestnuts |
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Sprouted seeds of alfalfa, radish and chia |
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Unsprouted sesame |
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Fresh unsalted butter |
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Milk |
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Cream |
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Goat's milk |
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Eggs |
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Whey |
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Plain yogurt |
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Sweeteners like raw, unpasterized honey, dried sugar cane juice (Sucanat), brown rice syrup |
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Fruit juices |
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All vegetable juices |
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Most herbal teas |
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Garlic |
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Cayenne Pepper |
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Gelatin |
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Most herbs |
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Miso |
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Most vegetable and unprocessed sea salt |
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Most spices |
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Vanilla extract |
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Brewer's yeast |
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Most unprocessed, cold-pressed oils are neutral or alkaline-forming |
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