Citrus- Free Diet
The fruits to avoid on this diet are:
| Orange | Lemon | Clementine |
| Grapefruit | Lime | Uglifruit |
| Tangerine | Satsuma | Angostura |
| The whole fruit or just the juice, the skin or the flavour are all used in manufacturing. | ||
Foods to avoid on a Citrus-free diet:
- Sweets and confectionery
- Ice creams
- Flavourings
- Candied peel
- Fruit squashes and drinks
- Fruit juice - canned, frozen or in cartons, fresh
- Cakes
- Biscuits
- Cookies
- Cheesecake
- Sponge
- Jellies
- Flavoured yoghurts
- Garnishes, i.e slices or wedges of lemon, lime and orange.
- Angostura bitters
- Alcoholic drinks decorated with citrus, e.g. gin and tonic
- Sauces
- Pickles
- Chutneys
- Lemon tea
- Oil / Lemon salad dressing
- Fish and poultry dishes, e.g. prawn cocktail, fish casserole, duck with orange, lemon chicken
- Marinades for kebabs
- Sweet and Sour sauce made with orange juice
- Orange flower water
- Drinks with angostura bitters
- Lemonade
- Lemon barley water
- Bioflavonoid supplements unless synthetic
- Citrus flavoured toothpaste
Some E numbers indicate the inclusion of citrus, and food should be avoided where the following E numbers are listed on the label: E330, E331, E332, E333, E334, E440(A), E450(B), E472(C).
Please note that any diets and dietary advice in the Patient Guidance section of our website are only intended for the patients attending our own clinics in Southampton and London. These diets are based on a recommendation made by one of the Centre doctors after an appropriate consultation. Our advice relating to use of a particular restricted diet is really only appropriate for individual patients who have consulted us and have been individually assessed by one of the doctors from the Centre and advised that they should follow a particular dietary regime. We do not recommend that people use restricted diets without proper medical supervision. We also recommend to our patients that they should not use a restricted diet for more than 6 weeks in the first instance without further consultation with us, as it may result in nutritional deficiencies. Sometimes food exclusion diets may be clinically effective in the long term, but their management will require a balanced nutritional approach.
We hope that visitors to our website who are not our patients will find much to interest them in this website; we aim to present useful, practical, considered and authoritative information on Complementary and Integrated Medicine. We strongly advise that you should not follow a restricted diet without proper medical supervision by a qualified practitioner.
