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Food List for Candidiasis

Candida loves refined, over-processed, low fiber foods - especially sugars. Avoid candies, desserts, pastries, soft drinks, cookies, cakes, stuffing, sauces, and anything refined and/or with a high sugar content. Candida is yeast. If you eat yeast-containing foods, you burden your immune system with more yeast.

Drug abuse, alcohol and smoking lower your immunity - so avoid them. Avoid antibiotics, steroid drugs and birth control pills since these promote the overgrowth of candida.

Wheat products and red meat clog the intestinal tract and provide an excellent breeding environment for Candida and should be consumed only occasionally (unsalted butter and plain yogurt - usually don't cause a problem).

Exercise regularly, allow adequate time for sleep and avoid stress (both physical and emotional).

It's important to drink 6 - 8 glasses of water throughout each day. Consider using some type of "purified" water: reverse osmosis, distilled, or bottled in glass. City tap water should be avoided since it contains chlorine and possibly fluoride, which tend to depress thyroid function and the overall immune system.

In general, eat high quality, fresh, organic food whenever possible. Eating a wide variety of foods and rotating them (having each item only once every four to seven days) is often recommended. A food diary helps to track possible food/symptom links. Avoid processed, refined, packaged "junk" foods.

Food list for Candidiasis

SWEETS 
Unpasturized honey unsulfurated black-strap molasses sorghum
FISH 
All white flesh fish water-packed tuna kohlrabi
salmon shellfish Baked or broiled Very fresh
oil packed fish and seafood Cod Crab
Halibut Orange Roughy Salmon
Shrimp Trout Tuna
Other fish/shellfish    
MEAT
Lean trimmed beef  very fresh calf liver  lamb 
Antelope Beef Buffalo
Lamb Pork, uncured & unsmoked only Rabbit
Squrrel Veal Venison
Other red meat Chicken Cornish Hen
Duck Goose Game Birds
Turkey    
MILK PRODUCTS
Occasional yogurt (unsweetened)  occasional powdered milk Yogurt (sweetened with honey) 
whole milk  sweet cream  buttermilk 
sour cream lactose to help beneficial bacteria grow  
FRUITS
Fresh fruits only
NOTE: Fruits should be limited to a maximum of two per day.
apples   pears apricots
bananas   cherries   grapes
guava currants nectarines
papaya peaches plums
quince tangerines  avocados
ripe pineapple  Apricot  Grapefruit
Mango Nectarine Orange

Peach

   
JUICES
Fresh juices only
May be selected from list of vegetables permitted, including the following
chicory  endive  escarole
lettuce Swiss chard watercress 
BEVERAGES 
Mineral water  herb tea mint tea
papaya tea fresh vegetable juices coffee

tea

 Water, "purified is preferred" Sparkling Water
Lemon or Lime Water Pau D'Arco Tea  
BREADS
NOTE: Limit to a maximum of two slices per day.
Rye  whole wheat  soya 
bran whole grain stone-ground breads.  
CEREALS 
Buckwheat corn meal cracked wheat 
millet  oatmeal sesame

grits

    
WHOLE GRAINS AND NUTS
Barley Kamut Millet
Oats Rice-brown Rye
Spelt Teff Wild rice 
Almond Brazil nut Filbert
Macadamia nut Pecan Pine nut
Walnut  Pumpkin Sesame
Sunflower Amaranth Buckwheat

Quinoa

    

CHEESE
BUTTER Butter only very occasionally. 
OILS, unrefined, all (except peanut)
Cold pressed oils, preferably hemp, olive oil, flaxseed, safflower
Almond Sesame (tahini) Sunflower 
EGGS
Limit to two eggs per day. Poached, hard-, or soft-boiled. 
Goose Pheasant Turkey
Other Poultry     
NUTS
Fresh, raw nuts such as almonds, pecans, cashews, Brazil nuts, and walnuts (peanuts very occasionally)

Roasted and salted nuts. No peanuts if patient has digestive or colon related problems.
VEGETABLES
Raw or lightly cooked: 
Any vegetables listed under salads.

NOTE: Washing vegetables in a 10% Clorox solution and rinsing well will reduce microbial growth.
artichokes carrots cauliflower 
celery  chives  corn 
egg plant endives green leeks
green peas  green pepper  leeks 
lentils lima beans potatoes 
radishes spinach  squash 
tomatoes  wax beans  Asparagus
Beans, all types Beet Broccoli
Brussel Sprouts Cabbage Carrots
Cauliflower Celery Chard
Cucumber Garlic Green bean
Greens: Beet, Collard, Kale Leek Lettuce, all types
Mustard Okra Onion
Parsley Parsnip Peas, all types 
Peppers, all types Potatoes, red skinned Pumpkin
Radish Rutabaga Soybean
Spinach Tomato Turnips

Tofu

Yams

POTATOES - Baked, boiled, or mashed. May substitute brown rice or corn.
SALADS
The following raw vegetables shredded or finely chopped, separated or mixed:

broccoli

 Brussels sprouts  carrots 
cauliflower  celery  chicory 
green pepper  lettuce  onions 
radishes  Swiss chard  tomatoes 
turnips watercress   
SEASONINGS
Chives  garlic  onion 
parsley  laurel  marjoram 
sage thyme  savory 
cumin  oregano salt 

sea salt

 kelp salt herbs
SPICES
cayenne pepper  paprika  
SOUPS
Vegetable soup Barley, brown rice, or millet can be added Canned and creamed soup
fat stock consommé.   

 

FOODS YOU MUST AVOID

Sugars and Sugar containing foods:
 Brown, granulated and powdered sugar as well as other sugars such as dextrose, fructose, glucose, glycogen, maltose, mannitol, monosaccharides, polysaccharides, sorbitol, sucrose, barley malt, maple syrup, maple sugar, date sugar, turbinado sugar. 

Avoid artificial sweeteners
such as NutraSweet (aspartame), which has been proven to cause Brain cancer. Read all labels of packaged foods to make sure there are no hidden sugars.

Yeast
Baker's yeast, vitamins, minerals (unless labeled "yeast free" and sugar free), and yeast-leavened bakery products: breads, crackers and pastries.

Fruit Juices
Either canned, bottled or frozen. Freshly prepared juices as tolerated (after initial three months).

Black Pepper
Black pepper is hard to digest, so it is not recommended. In contrast, however, cayenne (red) pepper seems to promote digestion.

Edible Fungi:
All types of mushrooms, morels, and truffles.

Smoked & Processed Meats:
Smoked fish, pickled and smoked meats, including sausages, hot dogs, corned beef, pastrami, and ham.

Condiments, Sauces, and Vinegar-Containing Foods:
Mustard, ketchup, Worcestershire, Accent, Steak Sauce, BBQ sauce, pickles, green olives, sauerkraut, horseradish, tamari, mayonnaise.

Dried & Candied fruits:
Raisins, apricots, dates, prunes, figs and pineapple.

Leftovers:
Mold grows in leftover food unless it is properly refrigerated. Freezing is best.

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