All foods that we digest release
an alkaline ash (bicarbonate) or an acid ash into blood and tissues of the body depending on the mineral compounds that the foods contain.
The prime example is citrus fruits — They are clearly acidic, but oddly enough, once metabolised leave
an alkaline ash.
Price actually published a paper on this subject, «Acid - Base Balance of Diets Which Produce Immunity to Dental Caries Among the South Sea Islanders and Other Primitive Races,» 25 in which he compares the amount of acid ash and
alkaline ash minerals in the diets of primitive Swiss, Gaellics, Eskimos, native Americans and South Sea Islanders.
Some foods produce
an alkaline ash, others an acidic one.
After passing through the stomach (and stomach acids) and being hit with enzymes, what's left is
an alkaline ash and the net result is that Natural Calm magnesium citrate is alkalizing to the body.
Additionally, green tea and water also provide
an alkaline ash effect.
Vegetables contain naturally - occurring buffering compounds (
alkaline ash) which effectively neutralize any acidifying components of food.
The mentioned it was based on
the alkaline ash?
The alkaline diet — also known as
the alkaline ash diet and the alkaline acid diet — requires you cut out meat, dairy, sweets, caffeine, alcohol, artificial and processed foods, and consume more fresh fruits and veggies, nuts, and seeds.
It has a nutty, earthy flavor and is the only grain that has an alkalizing effect on the blood due to its high
alkaline ash content, which also makes it easy to digest.
Not exact matches
Thus this unique agent has a high sea mineral content and contains calcium
ash, which assists in the maintenance of acid and
alkaline balance.
Most earlier food charts report acid or
alkaline based on the physical mineral «
ash» the foods produce on combustion in a closed chamber.
This is different from the
ash residue and also from the intrinsic acid or
alkaline state of the foods.
Your body maintains it's pH with a traditional diet and while I don't directly address this acid
alkaline theory in Deep Nutrition, in the chapter where I describe cooking meats according to traditional principles I explain the pitfalls of overcooking meat that avoid this issue with «
ash»
That makes perfect sense about cooking methods, though I think the acid /
alkaline theory proponents think of the
ash in terms of what gets produced in the body when the foods are burned / metabolized.
Depending on the type of food that we eat the metabolic «
ash» will either have a net acidic or net
alkaline effect on our bodies.
The hypothesis — and, by the way, this is a specific kind of subset of the acid -
alkaline hypothesis, which is called the acid -
ash theory of osteoporosis, and the basic idea is not as simple and wrong as, you know, eating acid - forming foods raises acid in our blood and that affects our bone health.
Each food that we eat has a net acidic and
alkaline affect on our body, because when the food is metabolised there is a kind of «metabolic
ash» that's left over.
Usually my household is compost - forward, but there's only so much wood
ash a compost heap can take before turning
alkaline.
To counter the acid,
alkaline chemicals are added — typically in the forms of sodium carbonate (soda
ash, pH = 11.4) and sodium bicarbonate (pH = 8.4).