- All alcoholic beverages
- Cranberry Juice and/or Cranberries
- Lemon Juice
- Carbonated drinks, especially colas
- Chilies/Spicy foods, especially HOT ones
- Coffee
- Acidic foods (Coffee and colas, for example)
- Chocolate (sometimes)
SUBSTITUTIONS THAT YOU CAN MAKE IN YOUR DAILY DIET
- Coffee that has the acid removed. KAVA and ROMBAUTS are two brands found in grocery stores.
- Herbal teas provided they dont contain large amounts of citrus. Weak tea: Dunk a tea bag in water four times quickly to color the water.
- OVALTINE instead of chocolate drinks.
- Fruit juices: Apricot nectar, pear nectar and papaya juice.
- Late harvest dessert wines (low acid content).
- Fructose, as found in SUPEROSE instead of NutraSweet or Saccharine.
- Carob for chocolate in a recipe
- Orange or lime peel scrapings for flavor. Do not use which part of rind.
Vitamins: Vitamin C only calcium ascorbate co-buffered with calcium carbonate. Vitamin E: take in powered form instead of oil capsules. The only B vitamin to use is B6.
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