Foods Containing Salicylates
| High Levels | |
| Drinks | Cordials and fruit flavoured drinks, fruit and vegetable juices, tea, peppermint tea, coffee, coca cola, liquers, port, rum, wine, beer, brandy, cider, sherry. |
| Fruits | Apricots, dates currant, loganberry, prunes, raisin, raspberry, red currant. Blackberry, blackcurrant, blueberry, cranberry, grapes, guava, orange, Pineapple, plum, strawberry, sultana. Avocado, apples, melon, cherries, grapefruit, mandarin, mulberry, nectarine, peach. Kiwi, lychee, pear with peel. |
| Vegetables | Gherkins. Chicory, chilli peppers, courgette, endive, peppers, radish, water chestnut. Alfalfa, aubergine, broadbean, broccoli, cucumber, okra, parsnips, spinach, sweet potato, tomatoes, watercress. Carrot, lettuces other than iceberg, mushrooms, asparagus, beetroot, olives, sweetcorn |
| Spices & Herbs | Allspice, aniseed, black pepper, cardamom, cayenne, celery powder, cinnamon, cloves, cumin, curry powder, dill, fenugreek, garam masala, ginger, liquorice, mace, mint, mustard, oregano, paprika, rosemary, sage, tarragon, turmeric, thyme, wine and cider vinegars. Basil, bay leaf, caraway, chilli powder, nutmeg, vanilla essence, white pepper. Yeast extract. |
| Nuts & Seeds | Almonds, peanuts Brazils, Macadamia Nuts, Pine Nuts, Pistachios, Sesame Seeds, coconut, Walnuts |
| Miscellaneous | Aspirin, Honey, molasses, Liquorice, Peppermint Sweets, Yeast-containing Produce, coconut, olive, almond, corn, peanut, sesame and walnut oils. Many processed, tinned or packaged foods may be high in salicylates due to the foods or spices used in their composition. |
| Low levels | |
| Drinks | Dandelion Coffee, Ovaltine, milk, soya milk, rice milk, water, Gin, Vodka, whisky. |
| Fruits | Bananas, lime, Mangoes, Paw Paws, Peeled Pears, Pomegranates, lemon, and mango, fresh figs. |
| Vegetables | Bamboo shoot, All Beans (except Broad and Green Beans) can be tinned in water, Bean sprouts, Brussels sprouts, Cabbage, Celery, Leeks, Lentils, Lettuce, Peas, Peeled Potatoes, Swede, fermented Soya Products (e.g. Soya Sauce), garlic, red cabbage. |
| Spices & herbs | Malt vinegar, saffron, sea salt, soy sauce, fennel-dried, fresh parsley and coriander. |
| Nuts & Seeds | Poppy and sunflower seeds, cashew nuts, hazelnuts, pecan. |
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.
