Foods to Avoid

Part of the series,
Diet for Minerals

by Jon Sasmor RCPC (Mineral Guide, MinBalance LLC)
Updated March 30, 2022

Foods to Avoid List for the Diet for Minerals

  • Fast food: food from fast food restaurants
  • White foods
    • White flour
    • White sugar
    • Table salt
  • Non-organic foods grown with chemicals
  • Vegetables, Nightshades, and Vegetable-Like Fruits
    • Salads
    • Raw vegetables
    • Sprouts
    • Yucca
    • Taro root
    • Breadfruit
    • Burdock root
    • Cassava
    • Anise
    • Fennel
    • Radicchio
    • Rapini
    • Kohlrabi
    • Asparagus
    • Artichoke
    • Sunburst squash
    • Zucchini
    • Parsley root
    • Potato
    • Tomato
    • Eggplant
    • Peppers
    • Chiles
    • Greens (except those on the Frequent Foods and Occasional Foods lists)
    • Regular mushrooms (button, portabella, baby bella)
    • Hydroponically grown food
    • Frozen vegetables
  • Protein Foods
    • Meat, eggs, or dairy from grain-fed animals
    • Farmed fish or large fish (tilapia, trout, tuna, etc.)
    • Hard-cooked eggs (omelets, scrambled, hard-boiled)
    • Egg whites alone
    • Egg Beaters
    • Pork and pig products
    • Processed meats
    • Glued chicken and turkey, nuggets or patties
    • Sardines in tomato sauce, mustard sauce, or spicy sauce
    • Brunswick, Bumble Bee, or Chicken of the Sea brands of sardines, or other canned fish that may be overcooked
    • Duck
    • Goose
    • Bison
    • Buffalo
    • Lentils
    • Peanuts and peanut butter
    • Refined soy products (soy protein powder, vegetarian meat replacements)
    • Food powders (protein powders, meal replacements, green superfoods)
    • Food bars
    • Smoothies and shakes
    • Pasteurized milk or dairy
    • "Cheese food" (e.g. Velveeta, Kraft singles)
    • Cooked cheese (e.g. quiche, pizza, lasagna, cheese burgers, grilled cheese sandwiches)
  • Grains
    • Wheat and wheat products
    • Rye
    • Barley
    • Spelt
    • Raw grain
    • Rice, rice cakes, and rice pasta
    • Corn
    • Granola, muesli, and trail mix
    • Refined grains
    • Breakfast cereals
    • Corn chips or other chips
  • Fruit
    • All fruit (except those on the Frequent Foods and Occasional Foods lists)
    • Fruit juices (except in adrenal cocktails)
    • Avocado (eat animal fats instead)
  • Fats and Oils
    • Hydrogenated oils
      • Margarine
      • Shortening
      • Commercial peanut butter
      • Baked goods (cookies, pastries, cakes, desserts)
    • Lard
    • Chicken skin
    • Refined vegetable oils (canola, soybean, corn, peanut, vegetable, cottonseed, safflower, sunflower, sesame, etc.)
    • Cooked olive oil
    • All products and prepared foods made with the above oils
  • Ice cream
  • Chocolate
  • Pizza
  • Fermented foods
  • Commercial baby formula
  • Table salt (sodium chloride)
  • Salt substitutes (e.g. potassium chloride)
  • Land or lake-based mineral drops
  • Sweeteners
    • Corn syrup or high fructose corn syrup
    • White or brown sugar
    • Agave nectar
    • Date sugar
    • Piloncillo
    • Other sweeteners
    • Artificial sweeteners (aspartame, Equal, Splenda, etc.)
  • Chemical additives
    • Flavorings
    • Colorings
    • Preservatives
    • Dough conditioners
    • Thickeners
    • Emulsifiers
    • Non-dairy creamer
    • Monosodium glutamate (found in natural flavor(s), flavoring, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, autolyzed protein, plant protein, textured protein, yeast extract, carrageenan, anything with glutamate)
  • Genetically modified foods
  • Water
    • Water with fluoride or arsenic
    • Unfiltered tap water
    • Distilled water
    • Ionized water
    • Reverse osmosis filtered water (sometimes labeled as "drinking water or "purified water")
    • Alkaline water (pH > 8.8)
    • Most well water (be very careful of contamination)
  • Beverages
    • Soda pop
      • Regular soda
      • Diet soda
      • Natural soda
    • Alcohol
    • Kombucha
    • Green tea
    • Juices (except those on the Frequent Foods and Occasional Foods lists)
    • Smoothies and shakes
  • Aluminum cookware
  • Teflon-coated cookware
  • Microwaved food
  • Waxed food
  • Irradiated food
  • Old or spoiled food
    • Fermented smell or taste
    • Moldy spots
    • Putrefying meat or eggs that even begin to smell badly
    • Oxidized oils or nut butters with bitter taste or aftertaste