Candida Diet - Foods To Eat
Candida Diet - Foods To Eat
Candida Diet - Foods To Eat
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FERMENTED Raw Sauerkraut (Bubbies) Fermented foods such as these contain good
VEGETABLES Kimchi bacteria for the gut.
Natto
LIVE YOGURT Probiotic yogurt Live yogurt cultures help your gut to repopulate
CULTURES Kefir with good bacteria. The live bacteria in the yogurt
will crowd out the Candida yeast and restore
balance to your system. This is especially useful
after a course of antibiotics.
MEAT Beef Eat only fresh and organic meat - processed meat
Chicken (like lunch meat, bacon and spam) is loaded with
Lamb dextrose, nitrates, sulfates and sugars.
Turkey (unprocessed) Smoked or vacuum packed meats are also best
Buffalo avoided.
Venison
Ostrich
Beef Liver
Chicken Livers
Heart
Kidneys
CATEGORY FOODS TO EAT NOTES
NUTS AND Almonds These nuts are healthy and have a low mold
SEEDS Coconut meat content. If you're still worried about mold, soak
Chia seeds them in a diluted grapefruit seed extract solution
Flax Seed for a few hours.
Hazelnuts
Hemp Seed Hearts
Pecans
Pumpkin Seeds
Sunflower Seeds
Walnuts
HERBS AND Basil Many herbs and spices have antioxidant and
SPICES Black Pepper antifungal properties. They can also improve
Cinnamon circulation and reduce inflammation. They're great
Cloves for livening up food if you're on a limited Candida
Dill diet.
Garlic
Ginger
Oregano
Paprika
Rosemary
Thyme
OILS Virgin Coconut Oil Use cold pressed oils where possible. Remember
Olive Oil that heating or boiling can destroy many of the oil's
Sesame Oil nutrients.
Flax Oil
Coconut Oil
CATEGORY FOODS TO EAT NOTES
BEVERAGES Chicory root coffee These are just a few of the herbal teas that have
Cinnamon Tea antifungal properties.
Peppermint Tea Chicory root is also a great prebiotic (it contains
Ginger Tea 20% Inulin), so it can help to repopulate your gut
Licorice Tea with healthy bacteria too.
SWEETENERS Stevia Stevia and xylitol can be used in place of sugar and
Xylitol they have a much smaller effect on your blood
sugar levels.
Candida Diet - Foods To Avoid
FRUIT Fresh Fruit The high sugar content in fruit feeds Candida,
Dried Fruit even though they are natural sugars. Fruits like
Canned Fruit melon may also contain mold. A squeeze of
Fruit Juice lemon is OK. ONE SERVING OF FRUIT PER
DAY IS ALLOWED (NOT BANANA OR
APPLE)
MEATS Cured meats Processed meats like lunch meat and spam are
Processed meats loaded with dextrose nitrates, sulfates and
Smoked or vacuum- sugars.
packed meats
CATEGORY FOODS TO AVOID NOTES
FISH All large fish like albacore All shellfish and most large fish contain
tuna and swordfish alarming levels of heavy metals and toxins.
All farmed fish Studies have shown that farmed salmon contain
All shellfish high levels of PCBs, mercury and other
carcinogenic agents. Small wild caught fish are
OK.
DAIRY PRODUCTS Cheese Almost all dairy should be avoided except ghee
Milk butter.
Cream
Buttermilk
Whey products
ADDITIVES & Citric Acid The manufactured, additive form of citric acid
PRESERVATIVES Anything you don't know is derived from yeast. However the natural
or can't pronounce! form, as found in lemons and limes, is OK on
the diet.
Additives and preservatives can disrupt your
friendly bacteria and allow the Candida yeast to
flourish.
BEANS Beans and other legumes The combination of being hard to digest and
Chickpeas high in carbs rules out beans from the first
Tofu stages of the diet. They can be reintroduced
Soy cheese later on in small portions. All soy products are
Soy milk forbidden, as the majority of soy is genetically
All soy products modified.
VINEGAR All vinegars, except for Vinegar is made in a yeast culture, depletes the
Apple Cider Vinegar stomach of acids and can also cause
inflammation in your gut. However, one
particular vinegar (unfiltered apple cider
vinegar) can actually be helpful in combating a
Candida overgrowth.
FATS AND OILS Peanut oil Peanut, corn and canola oil are contaminated
Corn oil with mold. And most soy beans used in soy oil
Canola oil are GMO.
Soy oil