our pH What can we do to insure a proper pH balance in the body? Diet is probably the single most important factor in maintaining a proper pH balance. To assure a proper pH balance, avoid consuming excessive amounts of meat, alcohol, soft drinks, caffeine, coffee, most nuts, eggs, vinegar, sauerkraut, ascorbic acid, cheese, white sugar and medical drugs. Instead, eat more ripe fruits, vegetables, bean sprouts, water, milk, onions, figs, carrots, beets, and miso. ALKALINE ASH FOODS (Common Foods that help to control acid in your internal environment) Almonds Apples Apricots Avocados Bananas Beans, dried Beet greens Beets Blackberries Broccoli Brussels sprouts Cabbage Carrots Cauliflower Celery Chard leaves Cherries, sour Cucumbers Dates, dried Figs, dried Grapefruit Grapes Green beans Green peas Lemons Lettuce Lima beans, dried Lima beans, green Limes Milk, goat Millet Molasses Mushrooms Muskmelons Onions Oranges Parsnips Peaches Pears Pineapple Potatoes,.sweet Potatoes, white Radishes Raisins Raspberries Rhubarb Rutabagas Sauerkraut Soy beans, green Spinach, raw Strawberries Tangerines Tomatoes Watercress Watermelon ACID ASH FOODS (Common Foods that leave strong acid in your internal environment) Bacon Barley grain Beef Blueberries Bran, wheat Bran, oat Bread, white Bread, whole wheat Butter Carob Cheese Chicken Cod Corn Corned beef Crackers, soda Cranberries Currants Eggs Flour, white Flour, whole wheat Haddock Honey Lamb Lentils, dried Lobster Milk cow's Macaroni Oatmeal Oysters Peanut butter Peanuts Peas, dried Pike Plums Pork Prunes Rice, brown Rice, white Salmon Sardines Sausage Scallops Shrimp Spaghetti Squash, winter Sunflower seeds Turkey Veal Walnuts Wheat germ Yogurt