Different foods impact your teeth in different ways, with certain types of dietary habits having a greater impact on decay and disease. Be sure to brush if you are consuming these foods!
Acid Foods Can Damage Your Teeth Kourosh Maddahi, DDS, Smile Transformation Specialist
Acid Producing Foods
Dr. Kourosh Maddahi, DDS
436 North Roxbury Dr Suite 202
Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA
For general health: 30-40%
For therapeutic care: 0-10%
Average American diet consumes approx. 80-90% acid foods
| artificial sweeteners | bananas, green | barley |
| barley malt syrup | beef (all) | beer |
| blueberries | bran:oat, wheat | breads:refined - corn, oats, rice, rye |
| buckwheat | butter, salted | carbonated drinks |
| cashews | cereals, unrefined & refined | cheeses: mild & crumbly, sharp & tasty |
| chicken | chocolate | cigarette tobacco |
| cigarettes | coconut, dried | coffee |
| corn, corn syrup | cornmeal | crackers: rice, wheat, unrefined rye, soda |
| cranberries | cream of wheat, unrefined | currants |
| custard with white sugar | deer (venison) | dried beans, mung, adzuki, pinto, kidney, garbanzo |
| drugs | eggs:whites, whole, hard cooked | fish |
| flour: white. wheat, whole wheat | fructose | fruit juices with sugar |
| goat | honey, pasteurized | jams |
| jellies | ketchup | lamb |
| lentils | liquor | maple syrup, processed & unprocessed |
| mayonnaise, store purchased | milk, homogenized & most processed dairy products | milk, homogenized goat |
| molasses, unsulphured, organic | mustard | nutmeg |
| nuts: Brazil, pecans, macadamias, pistachios, walnuts, peanuts | oats, oatmeal | olive oil |
| olives, pickled | pasta, white & whole grain | pastries, all |
| peanut butter | peanuts | peas, dried |
| pickles, commercial | plums | popcorn, with butter & plain |
| pork, bacon | potatoes with no skin | prunes |
| rabbit | rice: basmati, brown & white | rye grain |
| rue bread, organic & sprouted | salt:refined and iodized | seeds: pumpkin, sunflower |
| semolina flour | shellfish | sodas |
| soy sauce, commercial | spelt | squash, winter |
| sugar, brown & white | sunflower seeds | tapioca |
| tea, black | turkey | veal |
| vinegar | walnuts | wheat bread, sprouted organic |
| wheat germ | wine | yogurt, sweetened |
