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Food and Food Preparation

Including picking vegies/fruits etc.
Salicylate Levels in mg per 100 g Food and per Portion (Swain et al)
Revised 28 March 2008

The information on this site takes into account the understanding that all plants CAN and MAY make salicylates as a defence.

All foods can be eaten as they are somewhat destroyed by the digestive process and further altered by the liver, however, some may block if in concentrated forms applied to skin, taken as supplements or contained in food/drink sources claiming healing properties.  Blocking is individual.  Please see our Disclaimer.

Aspartame; Equal; Nutrasweet
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Fran Gare's Miracle Sweet All Natural Xylitol, Sugar Free Sweetener

Gums, Candies & Breath Fresheners   

(To be sal-safe avoid breath fresheners/breath mints, candies/lollies, chewing gums, lozanges, etc. with any natural mint, peppermint, piperitone (which is artificial mint), natural or artificial wintergreen.  Several items have been ok'd if they contain tiny amounts of low salicylate ingredients such as non-mint/non-wintergreen flavour, but we advise to monitor yourself carefully just in case you are very sensitive to sal's (someone reported blocking with Cinnamon Tic Tacs). Aspergum contains aspirin and is sal-full^TM.)  Check protein bars and powders to ensure they don't contain concentrated herbal ingredients.

Cinnful Apple (Apple/Cinnamon Combo)
Fresh Fruit Paradise (Fresh Fruit)
Ragin' Red Hot (Cinnamon)
 

Herbs, Vegetables & Fruits:

These can be eaten as foods but may block if in concentrated forms applied to skin or taken as supplements.

It's OK picking and preparing fruits & vegetables in the kitchen except perhaps for stripping fresh rosemary off branches, thorns off cut roses or handling mint, in which case, wear gloves for protection. 

Also consider wearing gloves if you are in commercial food preparation/handling or any lengthy flower arranging.  Wash hands immediately after handling food for any lengthy period if you don't wear gloves.

Note: We've had one report from a GG member that she does block if peeling approximately 5  tangerines which she eats daily when in season.

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Juices:  Can be difficult to ascertain salicylate content/levels.  If any of them offer or claim some healing benefit then any salicylate content must be considered as possibly being too high and thus a blocking risk. 

Picking & Preparing Foods Does Not Block Guai Treatment

They're not concentrated enough (unless of course you are doing rather a lot of it in which case you might choose to wear gloves or do the blocking test on occasion), some possible exceptions are stripping Rosemary from stems & thorns from Rose bushes, etc. There is a big difference between preparing vegies for dinner and putting plant based products on your skin that will sit there for awhile.  Click here for more information.

Foxgloves for protection when gardening

Protein powders MAY contain concentrated plants so ensure you look closely at the ingredients.   If the packaging states:: Nutritional Ingredients, Information or Facts, it can most likely be considered a food and not block.  If it states Supplement Information, Ingredients or Facts, it could be considered medicinal and thus, if it contains a salicylate ingredient, it should be investigated quite stringently to ensure it will not block.   For further information please see Salicylates in Foods.

Splenda; Sucralose; No Calorie Sweetener, Granular Carton

Stevia packaged as sugar

Stevia is a plant and thus could contain salicylates so please click here to read more about it before choosing to use this item
 

Swanson Premium Brand Stevia

Stevia is a plant and thus could contain salicylates so please click here to read more about it before choosing to use this item
 

Tea: A complex issue!

All tea contains some salicylates.

Check your box for wording: Nutritional Facts, Information or Ingredients indicates that the ingredients are food strength and we are told they will not block, even if there are plant ingredients, whereas Supplement Facts, Information or Ingredients indicates concentrated strengths and if there are plant ingredients the tea will very likely block. 

 

However, since our sensitivity to salicylates is genetic and individual, it is hard to say who will block (or partially block) from teas.  Regular tea and some herbal blends should be okay, however we have had blocking reports from reliable people who have tested with drinking them and then not drinking them.  It should be weak to be on the safe side and the more we drink the weaker it should be.  Be aware that many spice teas are a combination of black teas and spices.  'Real' (black or green) tea and spices are both very high in sals.  Many of the "grocery-store" (Celestial Seasonings, Bigelow, Lipton, etc) so-called herbal teas are actually weaker in sals than black or green tea, assuming they are based on fruit and herbs (excluding mints and rosehips).

 

We've even had reports of people blocking from tea made from teabags bought from supermarkets, and since we know that most teas contain salicylates, and others potentially do, our advice is to not take them till you are sure you have found your dose and are into the protocol a few months and then maybe add a non-mint, or one that doesn't contain rose hips, one at a time and following the blocking test.

 

Any tea (found in loose or teabag form) that purports to have a medicinal effect on the body should be considered a blocker and avoided completely (e.g., Women's Relief, Dieters, Traditional Medicine Gypsy Cold Cure, Dandelion, Milk Thistle, etc.). 

 

Tea and tea extract in supplements or topicals are going to block all but those mostly insensitive to salicylates.  The same with chewing tea.

 

For further information please see Salicylates in Foods.

 

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