If you are trying to increase healthy microbial balance in your body it’s important to eat the right foods that fuel healthy microbes.
Candida overgrowth can occur when healthy microbes die resulting in space for Candida cells to grow or when you are feeding Candida cells, but starving the healthy flora in your gut. This is particularly true when you have been prescribed antibiotics because antibiotics often kill the good bacteria along with the bad. What’s worse, antibiotics don’t kill Candida so they flourish because the completion has been eliminated.
So what foods will help fuel the healthy microbes that live in our bodies so that they can offer protection from Candida overgrowth? Basically prebiotic foods are ones that contain a large amount of soluble fiber.
Prebiotic Foods
*Note: Not all of the foods below would be suitable for the Candida diet because of their sugar or starch content.
- Bananas
- Berries
- Asparagus
- Garlic
- Whole wheat
- Whole oatmeal
- Oat Bran
- Barley
- Physillium Husk
- Flaxseed
- Brown Rice
- Rye
- Jerusalem artichoke
- Onions
- Chicory(warning, can cause excess gas in some people)
- Greens (such as dandelion greens, spinach, collard greens, chard, kale, mustard greens, and others)
- Legumes (lentils, kidney beans, chickpeas, navy beans, white beans, black beans)
- Plums/Prunes
- Apricots
- Broccolli
- Carrots
- Squash
- Peas
- Oranges
See Also
Candida Cleansing Diets that incorporate prebiotic foods as part of a healthy diet.
Conclusions
Incorporating these foods in your diet every day will help fuel healthy intestinal flora which will assist in keeping Candida albicans at bay within your body.
Source: Fatfreekitchen.com
July 8th, 2010 at 12:15
So an a candida diet you recommend bananas, berries, oranges which are very high on sugar???????
July 8th, 2010 at 13:04
All Fruit contains sugars and it would be ill advised to tell people to eliminate fruit from the diet as fruit is also high in vitamins and anti-oxidants. Fruit can be consumed in moderation. It’s the refined sugars and flour that is the biggest factor.
July 21st, 2010 at 15:04
Hi there-
I am having trouble in the grocery store
when I wish to purchase items as I have
been trying to find items that are both
Gluten Free and with zero added sugar
I am trying to go super strict for a while
and then introduce fruit later, etc.
If I wish to follow a very strict diet, may
I have:
cashews
plantains
sunflower oil
hazelnuts
dextrin (tapioca starch)
any soy products
soy lecithin
carrageenan
many thanks!!!!
Jennifer
December 29th, 2011 at 02:57
Obviously the person writing this article has never suffered from a chronic yeast infection or they wouldn’t be recommending the high sugar fruits. In order to kill the thing, you MUST stay away from them. It is irresponsible to recommend them for such a painful condition.
December 29th, 2011 at 04:56
Perhaps you missed the note just above the list? It clearly states that not all these foods are suitable for a candida diet as this was a prebiotic foods list not a candida diet foods list…
January 20th, 2012 at 02:54
No to every food jennifer mentioned. I see hard proteins which will take up stomach acid, fats to clog the pancreas function, and sweet bananas. If these foods dont make you sick right away they will keep candida going strong at the least.
January 21st, 2012 at 14:09
What do you do about the carrageenan & tapioca starch that’s in boxed almond milk? I’m already spending half my life cooking veggies & protein every night and washing pots & dishes and making almond milk from raw/steam processed almonds would put me over the edge.
Sorry, and why not cashews? Thank you!
January 22nd, 2012 at 08:49
Hi Christina, They are just natural thickeners. carrageenan is from seaweed. Just pick a brand that has no added suger and it should be fine.