Foods that can be eaten in a detox diet

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Updated February 2, 2015.

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A detox diet is a short, focused diet program focuses on eliminating environmental toxins and nutrition of your system. Although there are many types of detox diets, the foods that are allowed are often very similar, unless it's a quick way to get juice.

Including food

Fruit

• fresh or frozen
• not sweet, natural juice
• Dried fruit - no sugar, in limited quantities, such as blueberries, dates, raisins, goji berries

Vegetable

• Vegetable think particularly well detox foods include broccoli, cauliflower, broccoli sprouts, onions, garlic, artichokes, beets and leafy vegetables such as kale, kale and chard
• Algae, including seaweed sheet of nori, wakame
• Corn - to avoid corn, because it is the formation of acid
• Note: Some people are sensitive to nightshade vegetables, including tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and potatoes, and may prevent

Grains and starches

• Rice
• Andean millet
• Buckwheat
• Millet
• Amaranth
• Wild rice
• Oats
• Whole grains are preferred, but the products can made above the rice paste, pure buckwheat noodles, rice cakes and bread allow to

Beans and legumes

• yellow and green peas
• Lenses
• azuki

Nuts and seeds

• Almonds
• Cashew
• Nuts
• Sunflower seeds
• Pumpkin seeds
• Sesame seeds
• Chia seeds
• Hemp seed, hemp nuts
• Coconut, especially young coconut
• Tahini
• Approved nut butters and only with ingredients
• Peanuts and peanut butter - are not recommended as a rule

Choose unsalted nuts and seeds raw.

Oil

• , Extra virgin olive oil cold pressed
• Hemp oil
• Linseed oil
• chia oil
• Almond oil
• Avocado oil
• Coconut oil
• Safflower, sesame, sunflower oil and in limited quantities (because of the omega-6 fatty acids)

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