Food Salicylate Content List

Salicylates are highest in unripened fruit and decrease as fruit ripens. They are often concentrated just under the skin of fruit and vegetables and in the outer leaves of vegetables. All fruit and vegetables should be ripe and thickly peeled.

Do not eat the outer leaves of leafy vegetables.

In the table below foods high in glutamates and amines are marked as follows:

* also high in naturally occurring glutamates or added MSG

% also high in amines

A more complete list of amine contents can be found in the Amine List.

The following amounts are equivalent:

• 1 serve from the MODERATE group
• 1/10 serve from the HIGH group
• 1/100 serve from the VERY HIGH group

1 Serve = 1 Cup = 250 ml

Fruit
Negligible	Low	Moderate	High	Very High
Banana % Pear (peeled)	Apple-golden delicious Paw paw or Papaya % Nashi Pears	Apple-red delicious Custard apple Fig % Lemon % Loquat Mango Pear (with peel) Tamarillo %	Apple-Granny Smith Apple-Jonathan Avocado % Grapefruit Kiwi fruit % Lychee Mandarin % Mulberry Nectarine Passionfruit % Peach Pomegranate Sugar Banana % Watermelon	Apricot Blackberry Blackcurrant Blueberry Boysenberry Cherry Cranberry Currant (dried) Date % Grape * % Guava Loganberry Orange Pineapple Plum Prune Raisin (dried) Raspberry Redcurrant Rockmelon Strawberry Sultana (dried) Tangelo Tangerine Youngberry

I’d really like to hear from anyone who can provide salicylate levels for more apple varieties, either based on testing or based on what you have found you can tolerate.

Vegetables
Negligible	Low	Moderate	High	Very High
Bamboo Shoots Beans-dried Cabbage Celery Lentils-brown Lentils-red Lettuce (iceberg) Peas-dried Potato (white peeled) Swede	Bean – green Brussels sprout Cabbage-red Chives Choko Leek Mung bean sprouts Peas-green * Shallots	Asparagus Beetroot Broccoli * % Carrot Cauliflower % Chinese vegies Lettuce (other) Marrow Mushrooms * % Onion Parsnip Potato (new and red pontiac) Pumpkin Spinach % Snow Peas Snow Pea sprout Sweet corn * Sweet Potato Turnip	Alfalfa sprouts Artichoke Broadbean Chilli Cucumber Eqgplant % Radish Tomato * % Water chestnut Watercress Zucchini	Capsicum Champignon * % Chicory Endive Gherkin Hot pepper Olive % Radish Tomato Products * %

I have found the following potato varieties to be acceptable: Estima, Sante, Saxon and Sebago. I think that Fianna are okay, but it’s a long time since I’ve tried them so I wouldn’t guarantee it.

The following potato varieties gave me problems: Cara, Marfona and Nadine.

I’m not sure about Maris Piper and as a result I avoid them.

Nuts and Snacks
Negligible	Low	Moderate	High	Very High
Poppy seed	Cashews Potato chips-plain Sesame seeds	Brazil nuts % Coconut % Corn chips * Hazel nuts % Macadamia % Peanut % Pecan nuts % Plain Popcorn Pine nuts % Pistachio nuts % Pumpkin seeds Sesame seeds % Sunflower seeds % Tacos * Walnuts %		Almond Muesli bars Savoury flavoured chips and snacks * Water chestnut

Sweets
Negligible	Low	Moderate	High	Very High
Carob Cocoa % Maple Syrup White Sugar	Caramels Golden Syrup Malt Extract Toffee	Molasses Raw Sugar		Chewing gum Fruit flavours Honey Honey flavours Jam except pear Liquorice Mint flavoured sweets Peppermints

Herbs, Spices and Condiments
Negligible	Low	Moderate	High	Very High
Parsley Salt (sea)	Chives Garlic Malt Vinegar % Saffron Shallots Soy Sauce * % Vanilla (pure)		All spice Bay leaf Caraway Cardamom Cinnamon Clove Coriander Cumin Ginger Mixed herbs Mustard Nutmeg Oregano Pepper Pimiento Rosemary Tarragon Turmeric Vinegars (other, e.g. cider, red, and white wine)	Aniseed Cayenne Commercial Gravies & Sauces Curry Dill Fish, meat, and tomato pastes %

Coffee
Negligible	Low	Moderate	High	Very High
All brands of Decaffeinated coffees		All brands of regular coffee

Tea
Negligible	Low	Moderate	High	Very High
		Decaffeinated Tea Herbal Tea except Peppermint Tea		All other teas Peppermint tea

Cereal Coffees
Negligible	Low	Moderate	High	Very High
		Reform Dandelion Ecco Bambu		Natures Cuppa

Soft Drinks, Juices and Flavourings
Negligible	Low	Moderate	High	Very High
Aktavite Milo Ovaltine Carob Powder Milk (goats, cows) Soy Milk Pear Juice (home-made)		Coke Rosehip Syrup	Fruit Juice other than pear juice	Cordials Fruit flavoured drinks

Alcohol
Negligible	Low	Moderate	High	Very High
Gin Whisky Vodka		Cider Beer % Sherry * % Brandy * %		Liqueur Port * % Wine * % Rum

Fats and Oils
Negligible	Low	Moderate	High	Very High
Butter Margarine Canola Oil Safflower Oil Sunflower Oil	Ghee	Almond Oil Corn Oil Peanut Oil Sesame Oil Walnut Oil	Coconut Oil Copha Olive Oil

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