One component of the Candida diet is to try to avoid the harmful food-additives in the typical Standard American Diet (SAD).
If you are suffering from a Candida albicans overgrowth, you need to do everything you can to strengthen your body's immunity. There are many harmful ingredients that lower your immunity and make it harder to fight off the Candida.
You need to do everything you can do to avoid these food additives. The best way to do that is to avoid eating anything from a bag, box or can. Eat only fresh, organic vegetables, free range chickens and eggs, and grass fed beef. These foods do not contain any of these harmful food additives.
Harmful Food Additives:
Any Ingredient containing Aluminum
Any Ingredient that is Bromated
Any Ingredient that is Hydrogenated
Artificial Color
FD&C Blue #1
FD&C Blue #2
FD&C Red #3
FD&C Yellow #6
Artificial Flavors
Artificial Sweeteners
Acesulfame-K
Aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet)
High Fructose Corn Syrup
Sodium Saccharin (Sweet'N Low)
Sucralose (Splenda, Altern)
BHA - Butylated Hydroxyanisole
BHT - Butylated Hydroxytoluene
DEA - Diethanolamine
MSG - Monosodium Glutamate
Natural Flavors
Nitrates
Nitrides
Olestra
Palm Oil
Potassium Bromate
Propyl Gallate
Sodium Carrageenan
Sodium Nitrate
Sodium Nitrite
Soy Protein Isolate
Spices
Sulfites
TBHQ
TEA - Triethanolamine
Make sure to read the labels of the food you buy. The manufacturers are good at hiding ingredients to make you think you are buying something healthy.
Do not be fooled! The spices they list may not be spices at all. There is a long list of man-made chemicals that they can legally call spices.
Think about it... when they add oregano and other spices to pasta sauce, they brag about it. They are all listed in the ingredients. But when they list "spices" - what exactly is that?
Hidden Food Additives - Sugar
They are also good at hiding sugar by putting many different types of sugar in the product. I once saw an item with five different types of sugar in it!
Different names for sugar:
High Fructose Corn Syrup
Sugar
Sucrose
Fructose
Glucose
Honey
Anything sweetened with fruit juice
Evaporated Cane Syrup
Cane sugar
Maple syrup
Molasses
Brown rice syrup
Lactose
Maltodextrin
Dextrose
Beet sugar
Corn sugar
Corn syrup
Date sugar
Galactose
Glycogen
Ice milk
Maltose
Mannitol
Monosaccharides
Polysaccharides
Sorbitol
Succanat
Turbinado Sugar
White grape juice
Instead of all of these different types of sugar, look for products that contain Candida safe sweeteners like Xylitol, Stevia and Lakanto.
Hidden Food Additives - MSG
They are also sneaky about hiding MSG. They know that it makes the food taste so good but many people try to avoid it.
Food ingredients that always contain MSG:
Autolyzed Plant Protein
Autolyzed Yeast
Calcium Caseinate
Gelatin
Glutamate
Glutamic Acid
Hydrolyzed Protein (HPP)
Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP)
Monopotassium Glutamate
Monosodium Glutamate
MSG (obviously)
Sodium Caseinate
Textured Protein
Vegetable Protein Extract
Yeast Extract
Yeast Food
Yeast Nutrient
Food ingredients that often contain MSG:
Algae
Amino Acids
Annatto
Artificial Flavor
Barley Grass Powder
Barley Malt
Bouillon
Broth
Brown Rice Syrup
Caramel Coloring
Caramel Flavoring
Carrageenan
Citric Acid
Corn Syrup
Corn Syrup Solids
Cornstarch Fructose
Dextrose
Dextrates
Dough Conditioners
Dry Milk Solids
Enriched "Anything"
Enzyme Modified "Anything"
Fermented "Anything"
Flavoring
Flavors
Flowing Agents
Gluten
Gluten Flour
Guar Gum
High Fructose Corn Syrup
Lecithin
Lipolyzed Butter Fat
"Low Fat" Items
Malt Extract
Malt Flavoring
Malted Barley
Maltodextrin
Milk Powder
Modified food starch
Natural Flavors
"No Fat" Items
Natural Beef Flavoring
Natural Chicken Flavoring
Natural Pork Flavoring
Natural Flavoring
Natural Flavors
Oat Powder
Oat Protein
Pectin
Phytoplankton
Protease
Protease Enzymes
Protein Fortified "Anything"
Protein Fortified Milk
Protein Powder: Whey, Soy, Oat, Rice
Rice Powder
Reaction Flavors
Rics Protein
Rice Syrup
Sea Vegetable
Seasonings
Soy Powder
Soy Protein
Soy Protein Concentrate
Soy Protein Isolate
Soy Sauce
Soy Extract
Spice
Stock
Ultra-Pasteurized "Anything"
Vegetable Gum
Vitamin Enriched "Anything"
Wheat Grass Powder
Whey
Whey Powder
Whey Protein
Whey Protein Concentrate
Whey Protein Isolate
Yeast Nutrients
Avoid these common causes of Candida albicans and you will greatly improve your chances of success with your Candida albicans cure. You will be bright and exuberant in no time! Go to the top of Food Additives.
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If you are the type that needs a step by step checklist for treating your Candida overgrowth including recommended brands and dosages, you will be interested in the book "Candida Albicans - The Hidden Disease"