Low Amine and Salicylate diet

Posted on December 9, 2016 Updated on December 9, 2016

The itchy dirty dozen include;

Dairy especially cow’s milk
Grapes; wine (sorry!), sultanas,
oranges and orange juice
Kiwi fruit
Soy sauce and Tamari
Tomatoes, fresh, cooked and canned or in sauces
Avocado
Dark leafy greens (broccoli, spinach, kale, silverbeet, rocket, watercress, mesclun salad mix and wheatgrass juice.)
Dried fruits
Deli meats (bacon, ham, sausages, salami anythign made with preservatives, flavourings and nitrates)
Corn and products containing corn
Junk food such as lollies etc

For the first few weeks try to stick to the following list of allowable ingredients as much as possible.

List of allowable ingredients;

Fruit;

Papaya

Pawpaw

Bananas (not sugar bananas)

Peeled fresh or tinned pear

Peeled fresh or tinned apple (not initially)

Vegetables;

Iceberg lettuce

Cabbage; red & white

Cos letuce

Celery

Chokoes

Green string beans

Snow peas

Mung Bean sprouts

Spring Onions

Swedes

Parsley

Chives

Leeks

Garlic (not imported)

Fresh beetroot (not initially)

Meat;
Meat should be as fresh as possible, it’s usually better to buy it from the butcher, rather than the cryovac packed meat in the supermarkets as this may be weeks old.
Organic or at least free range will be best. Don’t keep leftovers.
Avoid the skin on chicken and the fat on all meat. If buying mince, ask the butcher for preservative free.

chicken,
turkey
lamb
beef

Bone Broth (this is a link to the recipe, just leave out the apple cider vinegar, tomatoes, carrots, onions, bay leaf and thyme);

https://equilibriumnaturalhealth.com/2016/05/26/bone-broth/

Fish;

Fresh white fish such as

flathead,
small fillets of Barramundi
dory,
bream
flounder
herring (fresh, not preserved in a jar)
lobster ($$!!)
oysters

Grains;

Buckwheat (flour and pasta)

Spelt

Brown or Basmati rice

Quinoa (not puffed)

Rolled oats

Oat or Rice bran

Barley

Rye

Linseeds/flaxseeds Gluten free pasta

Biscuits or crackers;

Rye ryvita’s

Plain or wholegrain rice cracker and rice cakes

Legumes;

lentils
white beans such as cannelini or Lima

These can be canned or fresh and then soaked. Avoid kidney beans and broad beans

Chocolate replacement;

Carob powder or pieces

Oils;

Rice bran oil

Ghee (after first week)
Flaxseed oil (refrigerated, organic, cold pressed, only used cold, never heated)

Sweeteners;

Rice malt syrup

Golden syrup

Vanilla bean

Carob powder or pieces

Real maple syrup (not maple flavour)

Milks;

Non-dairy milk and yoghurt;

Almond milk

Soy milk (Soy milky is the closest to regular milk in flavour, although it can separate if heated too much)

Beverages;

Rooibos tea

Decaf coffee

Sample menu;

Mornings;

Start the day with warm water

Smoothies; have plain soy yoghurt with banana (not sugar bananas), red papaya (rather than pawpaw) and soy milky

Bircher muesli (grated or chopped pear rather than apple, no berries, dairy yoghurt or milk, dried fruit, no nuts or dessicated or shaved coconut)

https://equilibriumnaturalhealth.com/2016/05/04/bircher-muesli/

Porridge (with allowable ingredients only);

https://equilibriumnaturalhealth.com/2016/05/26/porridge-using-soaked-oats/

Decaf coffee with soy milky or Rooibos tea

Lunch;

Salad; iceberg lettuce with celery, red or white cabbage, sliced celery, mung beans and spring onions.

Cooked peeled white potatoes with green beans, chokoes and chives on the top.

Finely sliced cabbage is nice mixed through mashed potato.

Home made hash browns are good too.

Potato and leek soup,

Roast chicken (without the skin), with pasta and salad

Quinoa salad with freshly cooked meat and allowable salad ingredients

Rye crispbread, Sourdough wraps or rice cakes with meat, lettuce and other allowable vegetables

Fresh white fish fillets with potato bake (you can use non-dairy milk, leeks and garlic to make this) and salad from allowable vegetables

G.F Pasta with allowable ingredients

Dinner;

Same as lunch.

Keep a food diary while you’re on the restricted 2 or so weeks and then when you are re-introducing foods. Don’t start re-introducing foods until your eczema has cleared up.

Re-introducing other foods;

Re-introduce one food only at a time and wait 2 days, if no symptoms you can re-introduce the next. If there are symptoms, stop eating the food and wait until the symptoms have healed. Keep a record of which foods you can tolerate and which ones you can’t.

Histamine levels in food;

https://equilibriumnaturalhealth.com/2016/02/29/allergies-foods-and-histamine-levels/

Salicylate levels in food;

https://equilibriumnaturalhealth.com/2016/08/24/salicylates-in-foods/

2 thoughts on “Low Amine and Salicylate diet”

Alicia Robertson said:
December 13, 2016 at 4:03 am

Mmm. Like. Interesting. 🙂

MaggieLynnHeronHeidel said:
December 20, 2016 at 4:24 am

Just started this diet. I seem to be very sensitive to touching anything with salicylates in it, like potato skin. Coconut based detergents seem to get me, too. – Merry Christmas ❤ Maggie Lynn

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