Acidity conscious nourishment

Acidogenic nourishment

It may not contain its own acids, but produces metabolically-conditioned acids in the body.

• Bread, pasta products, grain flakes, pastry, any sugar
• Grains: wheat, rye, corn, barley, rice, buckwheat, millet
• Legumes: lentils, soybeans, white beans
• Coffee, tea, cocoa
• Fish and meat: meat, sausages, haddock, herring, caviar, codfish, eel, eggs
• Dairy products with a high percentage of whey: yoghurt, sour milk, kefir
• Spirituous beverages, liquors, wine
• Sundry: animal fats, marge (oleomargarine), hydrogenated and refined vegetable oils, yeast, cigarettes

Acid nourishment

It contains a variety of its own acids ehich strongly influence the body's own acid content, but can also develop in an alkaline (base) manner at the same time.

• Cider vinegar
• Kefir, whey
• Honey
• Sour fruits: berries and citrus fruits, sour apple varieties, sour cherries, apricots
• Sweet fruits (in large quantities however)
• Fruit juices
• Sour vegetables: cress, rhubarb, sorrel, tomatoes, sauerkraut

Base forming nourishment

These foods are rich in bases and hardly contain any acids. They are able to neutralize a hyperacid body and do not prompt any acid production, even during the oxidation in the organism.

• Raw vegetables (gently cooked) chickpeas, white and green beans, olives, poppy seeds, beetroot, carrots, beet, potatoes, leeks, sweet chestnuts, leaf beet (uncooked), eggplant, cabbage turnip, green cabbage, savoy cabbage, cauliflower, pumpkin, asparagus
• Potatoes
• Curd cheese, cream, milk – raw
• Almonds (they are the only alkaline oleaginous fruits)
• Herbs: dill, rose hip, chives, watercress
• Salad: (white) radish, horseradish, salsify, onion, cucumber, paprica, celery, lettuce, chicory
• Fruit: bananas, pears, apples - fresh and dried, dried fruit in small amounts (with the exception of apricots), coconut
• Sundry: oyster, mushrooms
• Mineral and still water (may only contain minor amounts of chlorine and sulfur)