🥩 Meats & Poultry
✅ Great options: Lamb, mutton, rabbit, venison, Beef, buffalo, liver, Pheasant, turkey, veal
🚫 Avoid: Bacon, chicken, Cornish hens, Duck, goose, ham, pork, quail, Organ meats like heart
🐟 Seafood
✅ Great options: Cod; grouper; haddock; hake; mackerel; monkfish; ocean perch; pickerel; pike; sardine; sea trout; shad; sole; sturgeon; sturgeon carviar; Tuna; bluefish; carp; catfish; herring; rainbow trout; red snapper; sailfish; salmon; scallop; shark; smelt; snapper; calamari; swordfish; tilefish; white perch; whitefish; yellow perch
🚫 Avoid: Anchovy; barracuda; bluegill bass; clam; crab; crayfish; eel; frog; lobster; smoked salmon; mussels; octopus; oysters; sea bass; shrimp; snail; striped bass; turtle; yellowtail
🧀 Dairy & Eggs
✅ Great options: Cottage cheese; farmer; feta; goat cheese & milk; kefir; mozzarella; ricotta; yogurt; Brie; butter; butter milk; camembert; casein; cheddar; Colby; cream cheese; gouda; Jarlsberg; munster; parmesan; sherbert; soy cheese & milk; swiss; whey; whole milk
🚫 Avoid: American cheese, blue cheese, Ice cream, string cheese
🫒 Oils & Fats
Stick with cold-pressed oils only.
✅ Great options: Olive oil, cod liver oil, flaxseed oil
🚫 Avoid: Canola, corn, cottonseed, peanut, safflower, Sesame and sunflower oil
🥜 Nuts & Seeds
Some nuts and seeds contain lectins that disrupt insulin function in Type Bs.
✅ Great options: Almond butter; nuts – almonds, Brazil, chestnuts, hickory, litchi, macadamia, pecans, walnuts
🚫 Avoid: Nuts – cashews, filberts, pignola (pine), pistachio, peanuts; peanut butter; poppy seeds; pumpkin seeds; sesame butter; sesame seeds; sunflower butter & seeds.
🫘 Beans & Legumes
✅ Great options Beans – kidney, lima, navy; Beans – broad, cannellini, copper, fava, green, jicama, northern, red, snap, soy, string, tamarind, white; peas – green, pods
🚫 Avoid: aduke, azuki, black, garbanzo, pinto; lentils – domestic, green, red; peas, black-eyed
🍞 Breads & Muffins
✅ Great options Brown rice bread; Essene & Ezekiel bread; millet; rice cakes; Gluten-free bread; high-protein no wheat bread; ideal flat bread; oat bran muffins; pumpernickel; spelt bread.
🚫 Avoid: Bagels, wheat; corn muffins; durum wheat; multi-grain bread; 100% rye bread; rye – crisp & vita; wheat bran muffins; whole wheat bread.
🍚 Grains & Pasta
✅ Great options: Flour, oat & rice; Flour – Graham, spelt, white; pasta – semolina, spinach; quinoa; rice – basmati, brown, white.
🚫 Avoid: Buckwheat kasha; couscous; flour – barley, bulgur wheat, Durum wheat, gluten, rye, whole wheat; pasta, artichoke; noodles, soba; rice, wild.
🥕 Vegetables
Tomato – irritation; corn – insulin- and metabolism-upsetting lectins – avoid
✅ Great options: Beets & leaves; broccoli; cabbage – Chinese, red, white; carrots; cauliflower; collard greens; eggplant; kale; lima beans; mushroom shiitake; mustard greens; parsley; parsnips; peppers – green, red, yellow, jalapeno; potatoes, sweet; sprouts, brussels; yams, all types; Asparagus; bamboo shoots; bok choy; celery; chicory; cucumber; daikon radish; dandelion; dill; escarole; fennel; fiddlehead ferns; garlic; ginger; horseradish; leek; lettuce – bibb, boston, iceberg, romaine, mesclun; mushroom – abalone, domestic, eniki, Portobello, tree oyster; okra; onions – green, red, Spanish, yellow; potatoes – red, white; radicchio; rappini; scallion; seaweed; snow peas; spinach; sprouts, alfalfa; squash – all types; swiss chard; turnips; water chestnuts; watercress; zucchini.
🚫 Avoid: Artichoke – domestic, Jerusalem; avocado; corn – white, yellow; olives – black, green, Greek, Spanish; pumpkin; radishes; sprouts – mung, radish; tofu; tomato.
🍌 Fruits
✅ Great options: Bananas; cranberries; grapes – black, concord, green, red; papaya; pineapple; plums – dark, green, red; Apples; apricots; black-, blue-, elder-, goose-, logan-, Boysenberries; cherries; currants – black, red; dates; figs; grapefruit; guava; kiwi; lemons; limes; mangoes; melon – canang, cantaloupe, casaba, Chrismas, Crenshaw, honeydew, musk, Spanish, watermelon; nectarines; oranges, peaches; pears; prunes; raisons; raspberries; strawberries; tangerines
🚫 Avoid: Coconut (uncertain), persimmons, prickly pear, rhubarb, starfruit
🧃 Juices & Fluids
✅ Great options: Cabbage; cranberry; grape; papaya; pineapple; Apple; apple cider; apricot; carrot; celery; cherry black; cucumber; grapefruit; orange; prune; water (with lemon); vegetable juice (corresponding with highlighted vegetables)
🚫 Avoid: Tomato juice
🌿 Spices
✅ Great options: Cayenne pepper; curry; ginger; horseradish; parsley; Agar; anise; arrowroot; basil; bay leaf; brown rice syrup; capers; caraway; cardamom; carob; chervil; chives; chocolate; clove; coriander; cream of tartar; cumin; dill; dulse; garlic; honey; kelp; mint; miso; molasses; mustard (dry); nutmeg; oregano; paprtika; pepper – peppercorn, red flakes; peppermint; rosemary; saffron; sage; salt; savory; soy sauce; spearmint; tamarind; tarragon; thyme; vanilla; vinegar – apple cider, balsamic, red wine, white; wintergreen
🚫 Avoid: Allspice; almond extract; barley malt; cinnamon; cornstarch; corn syrup; gelatin, plain; pepper – black, white; tapioca
🧂 Condiments
✅ Great options: Apple butter; jam & jelly (acceptable fruits); mayonnaise; mustard; pickles, dill, kosher, sour, sweet; relish; Worcestershire sauce
🚫 Avoid: Ketchup
🍵 Herbal Teas
✅ Great options: Ginger; ginseng; licorice; licorice root*; parsley; peppermint; raspberry leaf; rose hips; sage; Alfalfa; burdock; catnip; cayenne; chamomile; chickweed; dandelion; dong quai; echinacea; elder; green tea; hawthorn; horehound; mulberry; Saint-John’s wort; sarsaparilla; slippery elm; spearmint; strawberry leaf; thyme; white oak bark; yarrow; yellow dock
(* do not use without doctors’ permission)
🚫 Avoid: Aloe; coltsfoot; corn silk; fenugreek; goldenseal; hops; linden; mullein; red clover; rhubarb; senna; shepherd’s purse; skullcap
☕ Miscellaneous Beverages
✅ Great options: Green tea; Beer; coffee; black tea; wine – red, white
🚫 Avoid: Liquor, distilled; Seltzer water; sodas