Introdiction to blood groups

COMMON FOODS THAT SUIT ALL BLOOD TYPES

1  Breakfast and baking ingredients

Rice: puffed, rice cakes and rice flour

Oats for all (except O non-secretor*), millet flour or dehusked millet, spelt flour

Oat and rice bran, flaxseeds, especially ground up

Walnuts and almonds, raisins, sweet desulphured or blackstrap molasses

Olive oil and ghee: cold or for baking and cooking

Lemon juice and grated lemon rind & pith

Yellow pea flour, found at Indian spice shops

Liquorice powder: 50x sweeter than sugar

2  Fruit

Grapes, raisins and grape juice, grapefruit, lemon, lime, and their juices, peach, nectarine, plum

Pineapple and watermelon

Apples, apricots and pears suit all ( except O non-secretor*)

Blueberry, loganberry, mulberry, cherry, cranberry, red & black currant, figs, prunes, raspberry, youngberry, gooseberry, kumquat and granadilla

3  Vegetables

Spinach, onions, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, green beans, butternut, squashes of all types, beetroot (tops as well), carrots, parsnips, turnips, lettuce, endives, parsley, asparagus, green peas, courgettes (baby marrows), celery water chestnuts  pimentoes, and oyster or portabello mushrooms

Sweet potatoes suit everybody except blood type A

4  Herbs and spices

Look for fresh supplies of: ginger, garlic, horseradish, fennel, chives, watercress, basil, thyme, rosemary, majoram and sage for their unique flavours as well as healing benefits

5  Legumes and grains

Small white beans and broad beans, cannellini beans,  butter beans, millet, quinoa

Sprouted lentils 4 days old

All rice: noodles, health rice, puffed rice

6  Meat, fish and dairy products

Ostrich, turkey, cod, mackerel, monkfish, mullet, salmon, sardines, tuna, eggs

7 Beverages

Green tea, red wine, rooibos tea, cocoa, carob, lemon juice as well as juice from suitable fruits and vegetables

*Blood type variants: a saliva test can be ordered to determine your secretor status at: www.dadamo.com or you can take your own food-tolerance test at: test yourself , using the tables. Food lists for your blood type can also be downloaded, free of charge.