Foods You Should Avoid
This list was obtained from the book Paleo Diet by Loren Cordain (Wiley and Sons, New York 2002 pages 104-112).
Dairy Foods
- All processed foods made with any dairy products
- Butter
- Cheese
- Cream
- Dairy spreads
- Frozen yogurt
- Ice cream
- Ice milk
- Low-fat milk
- Nonfat dairy creamer
- Powdered milk
- Skim milk
- Whole milk
- Yogurt
Cereal Grains
- Barley (barley soup, barley bread, and all processed foods made with barley)
- Corn (corn on the cob, corn tortillas, corn chips, corn starch, corn syrup)
- Millet
- Oats (steel-cut oats, rolled oats, and all processed foods made with oats)
- Rice (brown rice, white rice, top ramen, rice noodles, bas mati rice, rice cakes, Rice flour (all processed foods made with rice)
- Rye (rye bread, rye crackers, and all processed foods made with rye)
- Sorghum
- Wheat (bread, rolls, muffins, noodles, crackers, cookies, cake, doughnuts, pancakes, waffles, pasta, spaghetti, lasagna, wheat tortillas, pizza, pita bread, flat bread, and all processed foods made with wheat or wheat flour)
- Wild rice
Cereal Grainlike Seeds
- Amaranth
- Buckwheat
- Quinoa
Legumes
- All beans (adzuki beans, black beans, broad beans, fava beans, field beans, garbanzo beans, horse beans, kidney beans, lima beans, mung beans, navy beans, pinto beans, red beans, string beans, white beans)
- Black-eyed peas
- Chickpeas
- Lentils
- Peas
- Miso
- Peanut butter
- Peanuts
- Snowpeas
- Sugar snap peas
- Soybeans and all soybean products, including tofu
Starchy Vegetables
- Starchy tubers
- Cassava root
- Manioc
- Potatoes and all potato products (French fries, potato chips, etc.)
- Sweet potatoes
- Tapioca pudding
- Yams
Salt-Containing Foods
- Almost all commercial salad dressings and condiments
- Bacon
- Cheese
- Deli meats
- Frankfurters
- Ham
- Hot dogs
- Ketchup
- Olives
- Pickled foods
- Pork rinds
- Processed meats
- Salami
- Salted nuts
- Salted spices
- Sausages
- Smoked, dried, and salted fish and meat
- Virtually all canned meats and fish (unless they are unsalted or unless you soak and drain them)
Fatty Meats
- Beef ribs
- Chicken and turkey legs
- Chicken and turkey skin
- Chicken and turkey thighs and wings•
- Fatty beef roasts
- Fatty cuts of beef
- Fatty ground beef
- Fatty pork chops
- Fatty pork roasts
- Lamb chops
- Lamb roasts
- Leg of lamb
- Pork ribs
- Pork sausage
- T—bone steaks
Soft Drinks and Fruit Juices
- All sugary soft drinks
- Canned, bottled, and freshly squeezed fruit drinks (which lack the fiber of fresh fruit and have a much higher glvcemic index)
Sweets
- Candy
- Sugars
