Alkaline vs Acidic Food List

They say if you are trying to restore your health then you need to eat 80% alkaline forming foods and 20% acidic forming foods.  (Remember, going beyond this can be unhealthy and as I have said before it's about balance.) And to maintain your health the ratio is 60% alkaline to 40% acidic.  Also, when looking at this list keep in mind alkaline forming foods.  For example, you might look at the list and think.. lemons are acidic!  But remember it is the byproduct that is important, what it creates when it is being digested, which is alkaline.

Below I have categorized the foods into sections of:

• Healthy: Great alkaline forming choices that you can eat!
• Moderate: This will be a list of healthy foods which are both acidic and barely alkaline and also will be the list you will want to choose your acidic foods from.
• Unhealthy: These are all acidic foods that you will want to avoid!

Healthy: Alkaline forming	Moderate: Mix + alkaline, - acidic	Unhealthy: Acidic forming
Alfalfa Artichokes Asparagus Almonds Almond milk Baking soda Barley grass Bee pollen Beets Bell peppers Broccoli Brussel sprouts Cabbage Caraway seeds Carrot Cauliflower Celery Chia seeds, sprouted Coconut Cucumber Cumin seeds Dandelion Dog grass Figs Garlic Ginger Kale Leeks Lemon, fresh Lentils Lettuce Lima beans Limes Onion Olive oil Peas Pine nuts Radish Royal jelly Rhubarb Sea vegetables Shave grass Soybeans Soy nuts Spinach Tofu Tomato Water (Figi, Evian) Watercress Wheat grass White beans Yams Zucchini	Apples- Apricot- Acai berry- Avocado+ Banana, ripe + Banana, unripe- Blackberries- Blueberry - Brazil nuts- Brown rice- Cantaloupe – Cayenne pepper + Cherry, sour + Cherry, sweet - Coconut, fresh + Coconut oil + Coconut milk - Cranberry - Date - Flax seeds- Flax seed oil + Fresh water fish- Frozen vegetable- Ginseng + Grape, ripe - Grapefruit - Hazelnut- Honey- Hummus- Macadamia nuts - Mandarin orange - Mango- Mushrooms- Oats- Orange - Papaya - Peach- Peanuts- Pear- Pineapple- Pistachios- Plum- Pomegranate- Potato- Pumpkin seeds- Raspberry- Sea salt + Seasame oil + Seasame seeds + Soy milk+ Stevia+ Strawberry- Sunflower oil- Sunflower seeds- Sweet potato- Tangerine- Tea, herbal, green+ Watermelon+ Walnuts- Wheat- Whey protein powder- Whole grain bread-	Artificial sweeteners Beef Beer Breads (white) Butter Canned foods Cashews Cereals Cheese Chocolate Coffee Corn syrup Cream Dried sugar cane juice Eggs Fructose Fruit juice, sweetened/ packaged Hard cheese Milk products Ice cream Ketchup Liquor Liver Malt sweetener Margarine Mayonaise Microwaved foods Milk sugar Molasses Mustard Ocean fish Organ meats Oysters Pickled vegetables Pork Processed foods Sardines Soft drinks Sour dough bread Soy sauce Sparkling water Sugar (white) Tobacco Tea (black) Tuna Veal Vinegar (white) Wine

There are lots of lists out there.  This one is one I compiled on my own from the research I have done.  Use it at your own discretion.  And don't be afraid of the Moderate column... I know there are a lot of acidic items but they are still good for you and need to be incorporated into your diet. A lot of these items are tetering close to the neutral line. Remember everything in moderation and balance is important!