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Detox Diet Food Do's and Don'ts

If you're planning a brief detox diet, you'll want to make sure you eat the foods that increase your chances of success and avoid the foods that will hurt your efforts. Here is a list of the best and worst foods to eat while you're on the diet.Best Detox Diet Foods
Fruit: You can eat any fruit including fresh, frozen, dried or canned in natural fruit juice. This includes apples, bananas, pears, oranges, grapefruit, satsumas, sultanas, raisins, pineapple, mango, kiwi fruit, strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrants, nectarines, peaches, and melons.
Fruit juice: Either make homemade fruit juices or smoothies from fresh fruit, or drink ready-made juices. Make sure ready-made juices are labelled as pure or unsweetened.
Vegetables: Eat any vegetables including fresh, frozen or canned in water (without salt added). This includes carrots, onions, turnip, swede, sprouts, cabbage, peppers, mushrooms, corn, peppers, leeks, broccoli, cauliflower, salad, tomatoes, and cucumber.
Beans and lentils: Eat any beans, including those that have been dried or canned in water. This includes red kidney, haricot, cannellini, butter, black eye, pinto, red lentils, green lentils and brown lentils.
Potatoes: Eat all types
Brown rice and rice noodles
Rye crackers and rice cakes
Fresh fish: Eat any fresh fish including cod, mackerel, salmon, lobster, crab, trout, haddock, tuna, prawns, Dover sole, red mullet, halibut, lemon sole, monkfish, and swordfish. You can eat canned salmon and tuna in water.
Unsalted nuts: Eat any, including Brazil, peanuts, almonds, cashew, hazel nuts, macadamia, pecans, pine nuts, pistachio, and walnuts
Unsalted seeds: Eat any, including sunflower and pumpkin.
Plain popcorn: Eat without sugar or salt
Live natural yogurt
Extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar
Garlic, ginger and fresh herbs
Ground black pepper
Honey
Water: Drink at least eight ounces of tap or mineral water a day.
Herbal or fruit teas
Foods to Avoid During Your Detox
Red meat, chicken, turkey, and meat products such as sausages, burgers, and pate
Milk, cheese, eggs, cream
Butter and margarine
Any food that contains wheat including bread, croissants, cereals, cakes, pies, pastry, quiche, or battered and breadcrumbed foods
Salted nuts
Chocolate, candy, jam and sugar
Processed foods, and ready-made meals and sauces
Alcohol
Coffee and tea
Sauces, pickles, store-bought salad dressing, and mayonnaise
Salt
Carbonated drinks, both sugar and diet
Now that you know the dos and donts of detox diet foods, you're halfway to success!