Foods & Drinks to Avoid List
Candida Promoting:
- Sugar, agave, syrup, molasses
- Fruit (sweet) and fruit juices
- Kombucha and fermented drinks
- Sauer kraut
- Kimchi
- GMO foods
- Sodas and alcohol (beer is the worst offender)
Mucus Forming:
- Sour drinks like lemonade, orange juice, sodas, daiquiris
- Sour candies and fruits
- Dairy products including yogurt
- Fried foods
H Pylori Including:
- Alkalinized/hydrolyzed water
- Kombucha and fermented drinks
- Sour candies
- Dairy-lite products with carob bean gum (i.e cheap ice cream)
- Vinegar/pickles
Preservative Toxin Sources:
- Pea protein
- Fast food
- Long shelf-life foods like snacks and certain crackers
- Pre-prepared meals
- Many vegan food options
- Some (not all) dairy alternative products (oat/almond milk)
Pesticide Toxin Sources:
- Non-organic fruit and vegetables
- Tap water in farming communities
- Fast food
Eye/Lower Lid Puffiness:
- Alcohol
Microbiome Damaging:
- Carbonation
- White sugar/candy
- Alcohol
- Hydrogenated fat products
- Corn
- (All H pylori inducing, see H Pylori Inducing)
Large Pore Inducing:
- Yogurt
- Ice cream
- Fermented foods
- Sauer kraut
- Kimchi