Your pH and What it Means
To discover your pH, you'll need a roll of pH paper/pH Color Chart (5.5-8.0) and some Chew C Berry tablets available from your mind-body practitioner. You'll also need to print this 4 page Synopsis of Saliva pH Test & Urine pH Challenge form.
Improving Your Lifestyle
As you probably already know, there is more to pursuing health than just eating right. Emotional and mental factors affect how your body functions, too. The saliva pH and urine pH tests are useful for determining if emotions or diet (or both), is the cause of your health problem.
The Saliva pH Test is a tool for evaluating whether your body is responding to internal (mental and emotional) stimuli in ways that can hinder or enhance long-term health. It will help you to determine if emotional stress could be leading to physical distress. (This is called emotional override and is explained later.)
The Urine pH Test will help you determine if your health problem is caused by a poor diet. It provides valuable information about your alkaline reserve, which is affected by what you eat. Alkalizing minerals are used by the body to neutralize strong dietary acids (from high protein foods) that could burn your insides.
The most important thing you can learn from these pH tests is how to monitor your body’s ability to handle your diet and lifestyle. Monitoring your pH is a proactive health discipline. Your health is your responsibility!
Other simple self-administered tests can give
you clues about your alkaline
reserve status…
The Stiff Test – Are you stiff and sore when you get up in the morning? Does the stiffness ease up (so you feel better) as the day goes on? If this is so, excess acidity is likely your problem. Your body isn’t able to completely process and eliminate the acidity during your sleep, and some of it gets stored in your joints. Later in the day it will be cleared out and you’ll feel better.
If you’re experiencing the opposite, that is, you feel good in the morning, but have pain and tightness as the day progresses, this suggests a timing problem. Your sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system are working against each other. Our treatments will help balance this out.
Are you generally restless and don’t sleep very well? Are you as tired in the morning as you were when you went to bed? This could indicate that your body is busy trying to eliminate excess protein or stimulants (such as coffee, colas, etc.), or that you are in emotional override.
The Fist Test – When you awake first thing in the morning, squeeze really hard and make a fist. Does it hurt, or is it difficult to squeeze really hard? Later in the day, perform the same test. Is it easier now? If it is, this indicates too much acidity in your system.
The Sniff Test – Do you notice the smell of ammonia in your urine? Or, is your urine foamy? If the answer is yes, this is a warning sign that your body is using an emergency back-up system to neutralize excess acid. Your alkaline reserve is so low that your kidneys have to dump ammonia into your urine to prevent its delicate tissue from being burned by acid on urination.
Note: If this is your situation, you may have a burning sensation when you urinate. If so, drink cranberry juice (which is acidic) to neutralize your highly alkaline (ammonia) urine. This will temporarily relieve the burning while you increase your alkaline reserves by eating more fruits and vegetables and supplementing your diet with Alka-Green.
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The Saliva pH Test and Emotional Override
When your body is responding to strong emotions and these responses are overriding the benefits of your good diet, then you are experiencing emotional override. The saliva pH test indicates whether or not emotions are the overriding influence on your physiology. We all have stress in our lives, but stress doesn’t cause health problems. The way we respond to it can, though.
Emotional override is thoughts, memories, and emotions overriding the power of the body’s perfect intelligence by forcing the program to respond to a situation that is not really life threatening, even though the survival instinct believes it to be so.
For most of us, the biggest health hazard of all is how we cling to our past
hurts and injustices we have suffered and survived. And to make matters worse,
we may not even know that we’re doing this! Your physical body responds to all
of your mental activities, feelings and emotions. Worry, anxiety, hate, joy,
elation, and all the rest. Emotions don’t have to be strong to cause a physical
response. Any emotion can affect your body. And when the same emotion is played
over and over again for weeks, months, and years, your body continues to be
affected the same way over and over again. And that’s exhausting for both you
and your body.
About the Saliva pH Test
The saliva pH test is a tool for evaluating whether your body is responding to internal (mental and emotional) stimuli in ways that can hinder or enhance long-term health. Saliva pH changes instantly to handle current conditions.
The saliva pH test is a two-stage check: a before and after. The before gives you the pH of your saliva when you haven’t eaten anything for 2 hours (this means no food or drink, chewing gum, cough drops, breath mints, toothpaste, mouth wash, cigarettes, etc.). The after pH shows the response to a sudden, intense threat of acid from a Chew C Berry (vitamin C) tablet.
Your body responds to survive threats of all sorts. Acid is one of those threats. The objective is to find out if the acid threat is more intense than any current emotional threat. This is where emotional override comes in – emotional threats may override physical threats of a sudden “acid attack.” Emotions can affect the pH of your saliva. In fact, you can have residual emotional override from long-forgotten, past emotional threats that can send your saliva pH as low as 5.5 or as high as 8.0.
The normal pH of saliva is considered to be around 6.8
Note: If you don’t have a Chew C Berry tablet, you can substitute a slice of lemon but don’t chew it. Keep it in your mouth for 15 seconds. 1 tsp of lemon juice will work, too.
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Taking the Saliva pH Test
The equipment you’ll need for a saliva pH check includes: (1) pH paper, (2) saliva, (3) Chew C Berry tablet, (4) a pencil and paper to record your before and after results.
Don’t eat or drink anything for 2 hours. Push some saliva forward in your mouth with your tongue and dip a 2-3 inch piece of pH test strip directly into the fluid. Compare the color to the chart on the container and record the results.
Note: If you’re prone to allergic reactions put some saliva in a plastic spoon instead of touching the pH paper to the saliva on your tongue. Exposure to air can change the saliva pH rather quickly so have your pH paper ready.
Next, place a Chew C Berry tablet in your mouth for about 1 minute, without chewing it until it tastes sour. Remove the tablet and save it. Swallow four times and retest your saliva with a new 2-3 inch piece of pH test strip.
Record the results in the “After” line below, and then discard or chew up the tablet. These test results directly reflect your ability to handle stress in your day-to-day activity.
Before: __________ After: __________ Date: __________
Before: __________ After: __________ Date: __________
Interpreting the Results of the Saliva pH Test
Instead of using numbers to interpret the results of your saliva pH test, we’ll simplify matters and use colors instead. The color chart has three dominant colors: Yellow, Green, and Blue. Since the colors blend into one another, to mark the change from one color to another, we’ll establish color groups at particular pH numbers. We’ll say that:
| Yellow = pH 5.5 through 6.0 Green = pH 6.2 through 7.0 Blue = pH 7.2 through 8.0 |
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If Your Saliva pH Numbers go up…
If your pH numbers go up, this indicates that your body can respond easily to strong stimuli (the acid from the lemon or Chew C Berry tablet). No matter what color your first number was, if it changed to a higher color, that’s good. Some goods are better than other goods though.
Green to Blue = Best Response
Yellow to Green, or Yellow to Blue = Your alkaline reserve is holding its own
(But anxiety or a similar emotion is keeping your body on guard.)
If Your Saliva pH Numbers go down…
The acid in the Chew C Berry tablet is a sudden threat to your body. Your body must defend itself. The first line of defense against this threat is to neutralize the acid with alkaline saliva. This means that if the acid is the greatest threat to survival your body is facing at the moment, your saliva pH numbers will go up because your saliva is quite alkaline. If they don’t go up (they go down, or stay the same) another threat, such as anxiety or chronic stress, is dominating your physiology.
If your after saliva pH numbers are lower than your before numbers, take this as a sign that your life and health can be improved by properly handling your worries and stresses in life.
Blue to Green, or Green to Yellow, or Blue to Yellow = Wrong Direction
Your pH results indicate that your body is moving toward exhaustion, and probably not because of too much dietary acid. You still have alkaline reserve minerals available; that was demonstrated by the Blue or Green before reading.
However, your digestive system is running wide open all the time. The problem
is chronic stress or low-level worry that goes on and on and on. A change in
lifestyle attitudes is more important than a change in diet, but replacing meats
with brown rice, and adding more vegetables can’t hurt. Saliva pH responses that
go down on the pH scale can serve as a warning that you could be headed for
physical problems if you don’t take responsibility for your attitude and diet.
You can change either or both. They are both under your control. Taking control
of the way you look at life is as important as taking control of your diet. And
when you take control of these two major areas of living, you take control of
your health.
If Your Saliva pH Numbers Stay the Same…
Saliva pH before and after colors that are virtually the same are the strongest indication that emotional override is the key factor. It’s time to take immediate action! Your diet may need modification and emotional habits need to be examined and modified.
Blue to Blue = Not Desirable
Blue results before and after the Chew C Berry tablet indicates that your diet isn’t the main issue. The pH reading shows there is an adequate alkaline reserve. Blue to Blue suggests that you are a worrier, and worriers have a problem with excess digestion. It goes on continually even when you haven’t eaten anything. Fortunately, most worriers don’t have problems with indigestion, but they are moving toward exhaustion. Worry overrides the benefits of a good diet and diet changes alone cannot improve this situation. You must find a positive way to manage stress and worry.
Green to Green = Less Desirable than Blue to Blue
A Green to Green before and after reading indicates you are battling emotional override. It is likely you continually struggle with anxiety, fear, anger, or rage, which results in physical and physiological exhaustion. Your pH is high enough to indicate that some alkalizing minerals are still available, but the reserve isn’t overflowing. Eating more cooked vegetables and fruit, and eating less meat would be wise.
Of equal importance, change your long-standing negative attitudes so your body can rest. If your body keeps you in the “fight or flight” mode all the time (sympathetic dominant), you’ll feel both emotionally and physically drained.
Yellow to Yellow = Serious Problems
Most people in this category are seriously ill and uptight. They may need pills to wake up, pills to go to sleep, and coffee throughout the day to keep them going. Their sleep isn’t restful and they wake up as tired as they were when they went to bed. Regardless of their present state of health, their diets and attitudes need to be restructured immediately. Their alkaline reserve is either very low or they are experiencing the effects of severe emotional override from persistent strong emotions such as hate, anger, or rage that they may not even consciously think about.
If you’re in this category, you should add cooked vegetables to your daily diet right away. Raw vegetables and fruits may be too taxing to your already overworked system. You should also cut down on your consumption of meat and animal products and substitute brown rice. The diet changes should be gradual (See Transitional Diet Advice at the end of this page, or see the 4-page chart that you can print at the beginning of this page). To help overcome attitude struggles and gain a better perspective on life and health, read the book, “Dynamic Health” by Dr. M. Ted Morter Jr. It will be very helpful.
Note: If your saliva pH numbers stay the same (Yellow to Yellow), you should not do any significant exercise until you get these pH numbers up again. Hard exercise produces acid and your body is already acidotic. Exercising right now will be an unnecessary risk.
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The Urine pH Challenge
The urine pH test provides valuable information about your alkaline reserve status, which is affected by what you eat. Alkalizing minerals are used by the body to neutralize strong dietary acids (from high protein foods) that could burn your insides. The purpose of checking urine pH is to find out if your body has a healthy store of alkalizing minerals that neutralize, or counteract acid. Alkalizing minerals make strong acids weaker or not acid at all.
When your body digests and metabolizes the food you eat, byproducts called “ash” are formed. Based on the types of foods you eat, these byproducts may be alkaline or acidic to varying degrees. Foods high in protein, for example, leave an acid ash. (see the Acid Ash Food Chart at the end of this page, or look at the last page of the 4-page form you can print at the top of this page). Urine pH values can indicate whether or not your body is overburdened with too much acid from too much high protein food. The urine pH challenge can tell you how your alkaline reserve is holding up, and let you know if your ammonia backup system is taking the role of the key acid neutralizer (which isn’t good).
The first step of the pH challenge is to eat only acid ash producing foods for two days…
That means eating lots of meat, eggs, pasta, rice, chicken bread, peanut butter, and anything else on the Acid Ash Foods Chart.
Your alkaline reserve is made up of neutralizing minerals that keep strong acid left by high protein foods from burning your insides. After the acid has been neutralized, it and the minerals leave your body in your urine. Your urine holds clues as to whether or not, or how seriously, your supply of alkalizing minerals has been drained. If your alkaline reserve is in good shape, even though you have eaten great quantities of high protein foods, your urine should show evidence that alkaline minerals have been the principle acid neutralizer. The condition of your alkaline reserve depends on how much high protein food your body has had to contend with over time.
The urine pH challenge checks your alkaline reserve’s ability to handle strong acid from a lot of protein. So to make sure it’s a valid test, you need a lot of protein in your body before you check your urine. That’s the challenge – to see if your alkaline reserve can still handle great quantities of acid from great quantities of acid ash foods.
Note: If you are seriously ill or have a life-threatening disease…
The purpose of monitoring pH is to evaluate your health. If you are seriously ill or have a life-threatening disease, or any major illness, do not go on a diet of high protein foods. Your health has already been evaluated and it’s not good. You already have too much acid in your system. So don’t worry about your pH at this point, just eat as much brown rice and as many servings of cooked vegetables as your body can tolerate, and use our Alka-Green product. This will bring your pH value up to a safer level.
After your two full days of eating only high protein foods, you are ready to check your urine pH. This is done on the morning of the third day, with your first urination, preferably after you have slept for at least five hours. Your first urination in the morning gets rid of most of the remnants of the previous day’s food and physiological activity.
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Taking the Urine pH Test
On the morning after your two-day protein binge, as soon as you get up and go into the bathroom, tear off a 2-3 inch strip of pH test paper from the roll. You’ll see that there is a color chart on the pH paper dispenser. This is the chart you’ll use to get your urine pH number.
Direct one end of the pH paper into your urine stream (for about a second). All
you need to do is get the paper wet and it will respond. Then match the color of
the wet pH paper with a color on the dispenser chart. Note the number designated
above the matching color. Dispose of the used pH paper, and write down the pH
number and current date for future comparison. You’ll need it later to evaluate
the progress of your health.
Interpreting the Results of the Urine pH Test
Your urine pH number is an alkaline reserve indicator.
Urine pH 5.5-5. 8 (Your alkaline reserve is good!)
If your urine pH is between 5.5-5.8, your alkaline reserve is adequate. You have
enough alkalizing minerals in your body to handle a concentrated load of dietary
acid, and to protect your kidneys from being burned by the strong acid that
excess protein produces.
Now that you know that your body can handle excess dietary protein, go back to your regular diet. After a few days, check your urine pH again (follow the instructions above). If your pH number is 6.2 or below, you are eating too much acid ash food. You need to reduce the amount of meat, poultry, fish, cheese, and grains, and increase the amount of alkaline ash vegetables and fruits (see the Alkaline Ash Food Chart at the bottom of this page). If your regular diet follow-up pH test checks in at above pH 6.2, keep doing what you’re doing. You probably already eat generous amounts of fruits and vegetables, and minimal amounts of meats and grains. If you reduce the amount of grains and meats in your diet, your pH numbers will rise even higher, which is even better!
Urine pH 6.0-6.6 (Your alkaline reserve needs improvement)
Urine pH challenge test results of 6.0-6.6 tell a different story. It’s not
good, but it’s not horrible either. This is the warning stage. Although it would
appear that your neutralizing reserves are better equipped at pH six-something
rather than pH five-something, the reverse is actually true. A back up system is
providing some of the alkalinity.
The workhorse mineral of the alkaline reserve, organic sodium, can weaken strong acid enough to protect your delicate internal tissue. Your alkaline reserve can neutralize moderate amounts of acid from protein. It can’t handle tremendous amounts of acid from protein. But for two days, you filled your digestive system with excess protein. There was a lot of rather strong acid to neutralize, around pH 4.5. Consequently, if your urine pH is 6.0 or above after eating a lot of high protein foods, something besides alkalizing minerals is working on the acid to bring the numbers up that high. Your alkaline reserve supply either isn’t adequate to do the job by itself, or it’s just overwhelmed by the volume of acid that needs to be neutralized. So, backup systems begin to contribute to the neutralizing effort (buffering) to get the job done.
If you are in the pH 6.0-6.6 range, in the past few months, you may have noticed
more signs of aging. You may be stiff in the morning but loosen up as the day
goes on. You may tire easily or be short-tempered. Your joints and muscles may
be painful, and you may be sicklier than you once were. This occurs when your
alkaline reserves are low and your body must call on backup systems to help
neutralize excess dietary acid. However, your health outlook can be improved
rather quickly if you reduce the amount of high protein acid producing foods and
increase the amount of cooked vegetables in your daily diet. Reintroduce these
to your body gradually. As your body becomes accustomed to cooked vegetables
(plant foods), you can then begin eating raw fruits and vegetables too.
See Transitional Diet Advice.
Urine pH 6.8-8.0 (Your alkaline reserve is depleted!)
A high urine pH seems to indicate a vast store of alkalizing minerals at work.
However, that’s not the case when you’ve challenged your body with a two day
protein overload. A urine pH of 6.8-8.0 when the body is saturated with dietary
acid indicates that your alkaline reserve is virtually depleted. Your system is
stressed. You may be tired most of the time, have stiff joints, sore muscles,
and burning on urination. This is the natural progression after the pH 6.0-6.6
stage if your regular diet consists of mostly high protein, acid ash foods.
A high urine pH following the two-day acid challenge test of acid ash foods indicates that the important emergency neutralizing backup system of ammonia (produced by the kidneys) is the principle neutralizer. Instead of minerals neutralizing the acid from dietary protein, ammonia is doing the job. Ammonia is a strong alkali that can give the urine a pH as high as 8.0 or more. A strong alkali (high pH numbers) can weaken a very strong acid (low pH numbers) such as sulfuric acid.
Note: The ammonia produced by your kidneys is physiological ammonia which is made by the body for very specific purposes. In this situation, it helps neutralize excess acid. Household ammonia is poisonous and cannot be used to improve alkaline reserves.
Since the kidneys are near the end point of the digestion-elimination process, the fluids entering the kidneys should already have been neutralized by the alkaline reserve. If it hasn’t, then physiological ammonia is produced by the kidneys to help neutralize excess acid. The more protein in the kidney fluid, the more ammonia is produced and the higher the pH goes.
When the fluid in the kidneys contains too much protein from over-consumption of high protein foods, ammonia is produced as a by-product in eliminating the excess protein. If this is your condition, your urine will smell like ammonia, may be foamy in appearance, and you may experience a burning sensation when urinating (which cranberry juice may relieve).
Note: If your urine pH numbers are above 7.0, you should not do any significant exercise until you rebuild your alkaline reserve. Hard exercise produces acid and your body is already extremely acidic. Exercising right now will be an unnecessary risk.
So now you understand how you can have an alkaline urine from a body that’s been saturated with acid ash food, and why urine smells like ammonia (and the two go together).
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Urine pH challenge overview…
Your urine pH can range from quite acid (pH 4.5) to slightly alkaline (pH 8.0+) immediately following the high protein, acid diet challenge. Low urine pH indicates some alkaline reserve minerals are still available. High urine pH is a warning that:
| 1. | Your alkaline reserve is depleted and can’t neutralize the flood of acid sufficiently before it gets into your kidneys, or | |
| 2. | Your body is overwhelmed with large quantities of protein by-products, so | |
| 3. | Ammonia is produced on the spot for last chance neutralization. |
Because ammonia goes out with your urine, your urine pH numbers are high. That’s why if you have an alkaline urine after eating a lot of high protein
foods, you have burning on urination and/or your urine smells like ammonia.
Ammonia is your body’s final effort to keep your insides from being burned by
excess dietary protein before elimination.
How cranberry juice relieves the burning sensation…
When your body is extremely acidic (causing an extremely alkaline urine), drinking cranberry juice will help relieve the burning sensation you feel during urination. Cranberries are an acid ash food. In juice form, the acid of cranberries travels quickly through the digestive tract and neutralizes the strong alkali of ammonia.
Note: Ammonia in your urine is a crisis intervention. It’s not normal even though it is common. If your urine has an ammonia odor, you know your body is fighting excess protein consumption.
Did you flunk the urine pH challenge?
Here’s how to turn those numbers around. Start to improve your diet immediately, but don’t toss out all of your acid ash foods and switch cold-turkey to nothing but vegetables. Your body has been operating in the survival mode for a long time and it’s programmed for protein survival. Quick, radical changes will probably magnify the unpleasant symptoms you’re already experiencing. Re-alkalize your body gradually so your body can adapt to the new reality.
Begin your diet change with some mildly acid ash foods, such as brown rice. Add one serving of cooked vegetables to your daily menu for a week. After a week, add another serving of vegetables and start eating some fresh fruits. Continue to add a vegetable each week for 6 weeks. Stick with the brown rice for a while, and ease the transition with alkalizing diet supplements like Alka-Green. Your diet goal should be to eat about 70% fruits and vegetables. The remaining 30% can be your favorite meats, grains, dairy, nuts, seeds, etc. (See the Transitional Diet Advice at the bottom of this page.)
Hold off doing another urine pH check for a several weeks…
Give your body some
time to adjust. If you test your urine too quickly after your diet change,
you’ll probably be disappointed. When your alkaline reserves have been depleted,
your urine pH numbers will go down before they start coming up again. That’s
because alkalizing minerals are being replenished by your diet and the backup
systems are no longer being used (so there will be no more big ammonia
neutralization dumps from the kidneys which raise the urine pH numbers).
Expect your urine pH to eventually
come up to the normal value of about 6.2
The pattern of change will look as though things are going from bad to worse, but that’s normal. Your readings should change gradually, one color at a time on the pH color chart. If you’re truly committed to improving your diet as a major part of your pursuit of health, you will probably see a dramatic change from your original pH challenge numbers in a couple of months. If these numbers don’t begin to move after several months, take the saliva pH test to see if emotional stress could be causing physical stress. Of course, you should already be doing both of these tests periodically.
Conclusion…
Monitoring saliva pH and urine pH can help you improve your health if you act on
what you learn. Your body’s potential for health is built-in. You can cultivate
it or suppress it. It’s up to you. Your health is your choice! Your attitude and
choice of foods causes your body to respond in particular and predictable ways.
Every response your body makes is to survive the conditions you set. Everything
it does is perfect for the circumstances you chose. It works in the here and now
with the materials you gave it. With this new perspective, you may now realize
that you have more control over your health than you thought you did. And that’s
sure a cause for hope.
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Here are four gradual steps you can follow to improve your health and increase your alkaline reserve status:
1. Eat more cooked vegetables every day. Just add it to whatever you’re eating.
2. Eat fewer high protein foods. Eat smaller portions of beef, poultry, pork, and fish, while continuing to add more cooked vegetables to meals.
3. Don’t cook the vegetables quite as much, leaving them a bit crunchy, and add one serving of raw fruit or vegetables each day.
4. Begin to lesson the amount of sugar, salt, coffee, tea, cola drinks, and processed foods.
Note: Make dietary changes slowly. Rapid changes will cause toxins to be dumped into your system which is already bogged down and make you feel worse! As you make these changes slowly, you’ll begin to crave wholesome foods, you’ll achieve a balanced diet, your health will improve, and you’ll feel a lot better.
Timetable for the Transitional Diet |
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| Phase One: Immediately |
Increase the amount of whole foods and cooked vegetables you consume each day. |
| Phase Two: After 3-4 days |
Add one serving of fruit each day. |
| Phase Three: After 2 weeks |
Make one meal each day fruit and cooked vegetables only. Start to cut back on the amount of health inhibitors you regularly consume (coffee, tea, cola’s, etc). |
| Phase Four: After 3 weeks |
Start to reduce salt. Add more cooked vegetables and raw fruits. |
| Phase Five: After 4 weeks |
Start to reduce the amount of high protein foods you eat daily. Decrease your diet by one health inhibitor per week (alcohol, chocolate, cigarettes, fast foods, processed foods). Start to add raw or lightly cooked vegetables. |
| Phase Six: After 5 weeks |
Continue to decrease the amount of acid producing foods while increasing the amount of alkaline producing food that you consume on a daily basis. |
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Some Common Alkaline Ash Foods
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| Almonds | Cauliflower | Lima beans, green | Potatoes, white |
| Apples | Celery | Limes | Radishes |
| Apricots | Chard leaves | Milk, goat* | Raisins |
| Avocado | Cherries, sour | Millet | Raspberries |
| Bananas | Cucumbers | Molasses | Rutabagas |
| Barley plant juice | Dates, dried | Mushrooms | Sauerkraut |
| Beans, dried | Figs, dried | Muskmelons | Soy beans, green |
| Beet greens | Grapefruit | Onions | Spinach, raw |
| Beets | Grapes | Oranges | Strawberries |
| Blackberries | Green beans | Parsnips | Tangerines |
| Broccoli | Green peas | Peaches | Tomatoes |
| Brussels sprouts | Lemons | Pears | Watercress |
| Cabbage | Lettuce | Pineapple | Watermelon |
| Carrots | Lima beans, dried | Potatoes, sweet | |
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*Recommended for infants only when mothers’ milk is not available. |
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Some Common Acid Ash Foods
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| Bacon | Crackers, soda | Oysters | Barley Grain |
| Shrimp | Cranberries | Peanut butter | Spaghetti |
| Beef | Currants | Peanuts | Squash, winter |
| Blueberries | Eggs | Peas, dried | Sunflower seeds |
| Bran, wheat & oat | Flour, white | Pike | Turkey |
| Bread, white | Flour, whole wheat | *Plums | Veal |
| Bread, whole wheat | Haddock | Pork | Walnuts |
| Butter | Honey | *Prunes | Wheat germ |
| Carob | Lamb | Rice, brown | Yogurt |
| Cheese | Lentils, dried | Rice, white | Chicken |
| Lobster | Salmon | Cod | *Milk, cows |
| Sardines | Corn | Macaroni | Sausage |
| Corned beef | Oatmeal | Scallops | |
| *These foods leave an alkaline ash but have an acidifying effect on the body. | |||
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Neutral Ash Foods That Have an Acidifying Effect |
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| Corn oil | Corn syrup | Olive oil | Refined sugar |
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