Grocery Guide
This list tells you which foods you can enjoy as part of the Daily Benefit® program, and which you must avoid. The crossed-out items should be avoided. Refer to this guide any time you’re shopping to cook at home or go out to eat. We are constantly updating this list to be as comprehensive as possible, so be sure to check back for the latest version!
* These foods are acceptable if you are not trying to lose weight.
** Not for cooking, do not heat, use for dressing only.
| Arame Asparagus Beets and beet greens Bok choy Broccoli Brussels sprouts Cabbage Carrots Cauliflower Celery Chicory Collard Greens Crookneck Squash Cucumber Dandelion Dulse Eggplant Endive Escarole Fiddleheads Green/wax beans Hijiki Kale Kelp Kohlrabi Laver |
Leeks Mushrooms Mustard Greens Nori Okra Onions Parsley Parsnips (limited amounts) Peas Peppers Radishes Romaine lettuce Rutabaga Scallions Spinach Sprouts Summer squash Sweet potato Swiss chard (chard) Tomato Turnips Wakame Watercress White Potato Yams* Zucchini |
| Chickpeas* Fava beans* Kidney beans* Lentils* |
Lima beans* Peanuts* Red beans* Soybeans* |
| Alaskan cod Alaskan sablefish Blue crab Branzino Clams Catfish Chicken (commercially grown) Chicken (organic, free range) Dorade Eggs (organic, free range) Fish (raw) Freshwater trout Mussels North atlantic mackerel |
Oysters Pollock Red meat (grain fed) Red meat (organic, grass fed) Red mullet Sardines (canned or fresh) Shark Shrimp Swordfish Tilapia Tuna Turkey (commercially grown) Turkey (organic, free range) Wild salmon |
| Butter Cheese Cream Ghee |
Kefir Ice cream Milk Yogurt |
| Apples Apricots Avocados (limit 1/2 per day) Bananas Blackberries Blueberries Canned fruit Cantaloupe Cherries Dried fruit Graprefruit (white or red) Grapes Honeydew melon Kiwi |
Lemon (for flavoring) Lime (for flavoring) Mango Nectarines Oranges Papaya Peaches Pears Pineapple Plums Pomegranates Raspberries Strawberries Watermelon |
| Barley Brown rice* Buckwheat* Corn Flour (all) Kamut |
Oats Quinoa Rye Spelt Triticale Wheat |
| Alcohol (especially beer & wine) Alcoholic cider Club soda Coffee Colas |
Fruit juice Green tea Herbal teas Water (1 1/2-2 1/2 liters) Yerba mate tea |
| Avocado oil Canola oil Coconut oil Corn oil Cottonseed oil Extra virgin olive oil |
Flax seed oil** Grapeseed oil Hempseed oil** Sesame oil Soy oil Walnut oil |
| Agave Aspartame Confectioners glaze Evaporated cane juice Erythiol Honey Lohan |
All type of syrup Saccharin Sorbitol Stevia Sucralose Sugar Xylitol |
Acceptable if you are not trying to lose weight.
| Cayenne pepper Chili powder |
Black pepper Sea salt |