Candida Diet Elimination

A simple 5-day candida diet elimination of yeast and molds followed by a challenge or binge of these foods will often relieve and then trigger your symptoms.

This can help you determine if a long-term control diet would be helpful for you. Remember, different people with different sensitivities may require varying degrees of dietary restrictions.

Often, the process of healing requires listening to your body and its signals and sensitivities.

Candida Diet Elimination Guidelines

Eliminate all yeasty and moldy substances from your eating program
Be very strict during this time to get the best results
Do this when you are at home and can control your food intake
Plan what you will eat and go shopping so you have the right foods in your house
Keep a food diary and track what you are eating. You should try to vary your meals and make sure you are not eating a lot of any one food.
Avoid the test foods for 5-7 full days
On the last day, eat large amounts of the foods you have been avoiding and monitor your reaction.

Foods allowed on the program:

Meat

Fish

Chicken

Eggs

Nuts -- fresh. Don't eat peanuts or pistachios. Use cashew or almond butter instead of peanut butter.

Fresh fruit -- washed/peeled; 2 servings per day. Don't eat fruits with moldy skin, such as grapes, berries, and melons. The skin is the site of mold growth in fruits.

Grains -- brown rice, amaranth, buckwheat, and corn. It may be necessary to avoid gluten grains such as wheat, spelt, malt, barley, oats, rye, and millet.

Water -- lots!

Juices -- fresh-squeezed fruit or vegetable. Dilute with water or seltzer.

Snacks -- air-popped corn or Guiltless Gourmet Chips.

Oils -- old pressed olive, sesame, or walnut.

Foods to avoid:

Sugar and refined carbohydrates

Honey

Syrup

Malt

Fructose

Corn syrup

Fermented, vinegar-containing foods, such as:

Yeasty foods and substances, like:

Foods in the fungus family, e.g. mushrooms

Olives

Juices not freshly made

Coffee and teas

Dried fruits

Most condiments (salad dressings, vinegar, soy sauce, etc.)

Fermented foods (sauerkraut, pickles, miso)

Vitamins. Some of the B vitamins are produced by yeast fermentation -- look for yeast free vitamins

What do I Do Now?
If you get a recurrence of symptoms, you have identified your problem. If not, then yeast may not be a problem for you.

Remember that sometimes a dietary change may not reduce the yeast overgrowth enough to resolve your symptoms.

If you feel great off the yeasty foods, you might not want to do the challenge. It could make you feel very ill. Continue to follow a candida diet elimination program for at least 3 months.

After doing the candida diet elimination, you may find you require additional natural support.
Take two supplements:
1. Beneficial bacteria or probiotic: This is the good bacteria that has been overtaken or depleted. Take a supplement with at least 10 to 20 billion live organisms a day of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacter species.
2. Take an herbal candida cleansing formula.

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