Alkaline Fruit Diet

Overview

A diet that includes plenty of fruit can be instrumental in correcting chronic acidosis, or the condition that occurs when you eat too much sugar, carbohydrates, and processed foods, creating an unnaturally acidic condition in your body. This state can contribute to a wide range of detrimental health effects, from osteoporosis to joint and back problems.

Eat Plenty of Fruit

The process of digesting most common fruits helps to create an alkaline condition in your body, even if these fruits contain acidic compounds such as citrus. This alkaline environment is instrumental for correcting the pH imbalance that can occur when you eat too many carbohydrates, processed foods, and sugar. Add as much fruit as possible to your diet although you certainly do not need to live exclusively on fruit. Eat a wide range of fruit, with the exception of cranberries, which create acidity. Enjoy bananas, oranges, pears, pineapples, berries, tropical fruits such as mangos and papayas, as well as melons, apricots, and cherries.

Eat Raw Fruit

An alkaline fruit diet should ideally contain raw fruit because raw foods have the greatest capacity to create an alkaline condition in your body. In general, our bodies convert foods in the vegetable kingdom from a naturally acidic state into alkaline compounds, and they convert naturally alkaline animal products, such as meat and cheese, into acids. Prepare raw fruit salads and eat them while the fruit is as fresh as possible, before its beneficial enzymes begin to break down. Local fruits from the farmers' market tend to be considerably fresher than the items on the shelf of a typical supermarket, and fruit picked from a fruit tree in your backyard and eaten right away is the freshest of all.

Avoid Processed Fruit Products

Processed fruit products contain many of the substances that generate acidity rather than alkalinity in our bodies, and an alkaline fruit diet should not include them. Most canned fruits and jams include sugar, which is detrimental to the body's acid-alkaline balance. Preservatives, as well, create an acidic condition in our bodies, neutralizing the benefits of the fruits they are used to prepare.