Eating foods from this list will affect the pH balance in your body. Too much acid in your diet will cause health problems so it is important to be aware of which foods are considered acidic and how much acid they do contain. The list is divided into foods that are slightly acidic, very acidic and just considered acidic.
| SLIGHTLY ACIDIC barley bass blueberries bread; rye, wheat, whole grain brown rice Bulgur wheat butter buttermilk cereal, whole grain clams cocoa corn oil cottage cheese cream curry powder fish, cold water flounder flour; millet or brown rice fruit, dried (except raisins) fruit juice (processed) granola, sweetened honey, processed Kasha (buckwheat groats) lard margarine millet oysters pasta, whole grain pike plums prunes pumpkin seeds Quinoa Rice, basmati rice, brown rice cakes rice milk rye rye bread Safflower oil salmon sesame oil sole spelt sunflower oil sunflower seeds tea, black trout venison wild game yogurt | ACIDIC bread, pumpernickel brown sugar buckwheat catfish cereal, commercial/kids cheese, soft (mozzarella) cherries, sour chicken coffee; regular or decaf corn bread cornmeal corn, processed (popcorn) crackers (whole wheat rye) cream cheese duck eggs flour; barley, rye or whole wheat fruit (canned (all types) Gatorade grits, corn halibut jam jelly ketchup lamb Mahi-mahi mayonnaise milk, raw molasses mussels mustard oat bran organ meats peanuts peanut butter peanut oil pecans pickles, sweet pine nuts pistachios popcorn rabbit raw sugar relish, pickle rhubarb rice, white sour cherries sour cream soy milk soybean oil sports drinks sugar, brown sugar, raw sugar, white tortillas, corn tuna turkey veal vinegar vitamin water walnuts white rice white sugar wine (all types) | VERY ACIDIC artificial sweeteners Aspartame bacon bagels baked goods beef beer biscuits bologna bread, white brownies cakes (all types) candy (all types) carp cheese, hard (cow's milk) chips (all types) chocolate coffee-espresso cold cuts cookies (all types) corn chips corn syrup corned beef cottonseed oil couscous crab crackers, white or saltines cranberries cranberry sauce custard deli meat donuts equal/aspartame flour; white, soy, white rice fruit juice, sweetened gravy ham hazelnuts high fructose corn syrup hot dogs/frankfurters, coneys ice cream liquor (all types) lobster lunch meat macadamia nuts macaroni and cheese Matzoh milk, homogenized noodles, egg pasta, white flour pastrami pie (all types) pork potato chips processed foods (all kinds) pudding (all kinds) Saccharin salami salt, iodized table sausage shrimp soda (all types) Splenda swordfish tortillas, white (flour) |
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