The Acidic Foods List

Like the alkaline foods list, our acidic foods list is a composite of several charts by various nutritionists.

Please don't think of acidic (or acid-forming) foods as 'bad'. Your body needs these as well as alkaline foods but in smaller quantities. It's ultimately a question of balance. The figures vary but generally experts believe that we need 75%-90% of our daily food intake from alkaline forming foods and 10%-25% from acidic foods.

According to the theory of acid-alkaline balance, an excess of acidic food consumption can lead to all kinds of biochemical imbalances, resulting in a range of physical ailments. So if you find yourself with one of the symptoms associated with excess acidity, the usual recommendation is to increase your daily consumption of alkaline-forming foods to 80-90% until the symptoms subside. For some people this might be a week or two, but for others it might take months. Once your symptoms have been significantly reduced, or have disappeared completely, you can increase your acidic foods intake to 25%.

Here is the acidic foods list we use: