Below is the list of FOOD to AVOID for people with GAPS
You must avoid grains, beans, and potatoes (including yam potato) until you restore the beneficial flora and heal your gut lining and its function.
I know many articles by doctors suggest that those foods high in dietary fibers promote good bacteria. Yes, I agree with them; however, only when your beneficial bacteria are appropriately stored and your good health status is maintained.
Without healthy gut flora, you can not digest those dietary fibers correctly, which means those fibers promote harmful bacteria within you.
Especially if you have an overgrown candida, I strongly recommend you avoid grains, beans, and potatoes (including yam potato)!
The list below is from the GAPS yellow book. Some GAPS people may have more foods to avoid depending on their reaction to foods. I have learned that fruits and nuts worsened Candida-caused inflammations.
- Acesulphame
- Acidophilus milk
- Agar-agar
- Agave syrup
- Algae
- Aloe vera, once digestive symptoms are gone, you can introduce it
- Amaranth
- Apple juice
- Arrowroot
- Aspartame
- Astragalus
- Baked beans
- Baker’s yeast
- Baking powder and raising agents of all kinds apart from pure bicarbonate of soda
- Balsamic vinegar
- Barley
- Bean flour and sprouts
- Bee pollen
- Beer
- Bhindi or okra
- Bitter gourd
- Black-eye beans
- Bologna
- Bouillon cubes or granules
- Brandy
- Buckwheat
- Bulgur
- Burdock root
- Butter beans
- Buttermilk
- Cannellini beans
- Canned vegetables and fruit
- Carob
- Carrageenan
- Cellulose gum
- Cereals, including all breakfast cereals
- Cheese, processed, and cheese spreads
- Chestnuts and chestnut flour
- Chevre cheese
- Chewing gum
- Chickpeas
- Chickory root
- Chocolate
- Cocoa powder
- Coffee, instant, and coffee substitutes
- Cooking oils
- Cordials
- Corn
- Cornstarch
- Corn syrup
- Cottage cheese
- Cottonseed
- Couscous
- Cream
- Cream of tartar
- Cream cheese
- Dextrose
- Drinks, soft
- Faba beans
- Feta cheese
- Fish, preserved, smoked, salted, breaded, and canned with sauces
- Flour, made out of grains
- FOS (fructooligosaccharides)
- Fructose
- Fruit, canned or preserved
- Garbanzo beans
- Gjetost cheese
- Grains, all
- Gruyere cheese
- Ham
- Hot dogs
- Ice cream, commercial
- Jams
- Jellies
- Jerusalem artichoke
- Ketchup, commercially available
- Lactose
- Liqueurs
- Margarine and butter replacements
- Meats, processed, preserved, smoked, and salted
- Millet
- Milk from any animal, soy, rice, canned coconut milk
- Milk, dried
- Molasses
- Mozzarella cheese
- Mungbeans
- Neufchatel cheese
- Nutra-sweet (aspartame)
- Nuts, salted, roasted, and coated
- Oats
- Okra
- Parsnip
- Pasta of any kind
- Pectin
- Postum
- Potato, white
- Potato, sweet
- Primost cheese
- Quinoa
- Rice
- Ricotta cheese
- Rye
- Saccharin
- Sago
- Sausages, commercially available
- Semolina
- Sherry
- Soda soft drinks
- Sour cream, commercial
- Soy
- Spelt
- Starch
- Sugar or sucrose of any kind
- Tapioca
- Tea, instant
- Triticale
- Turkey loaf
- Vegetables, canned or preserved
- Wheat
- Wheat germ
- Whey, powder, or liquid
- Yams
- Yogurt, commercial
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