The oxalates and the oxalic acid are organic acids that come from: foods, some fungi and our own body. When the amounts of these substances are eaten in rich proportions, the kidneys can get badly affected. It’s very important, then to be aware of those foods rich in oxalates, because they are the main source of what we know as kidney stones. Those foods are commonly known as “high oxalate foods”

The main reason that people who suffer kidney stones have to change their food habits, is to eat foods with a low or average level of oxalates. High oxalate foods can complicate an already bad condition in the renal system or the kidneys, providing even more elements to the mixture of renal failure.

Generally, a low diet in oxalates pretends to limit the consumption of oxalates to approximately 50 milligrams (mg) per day. Because the oxalates are present in many different foods, it is important to become familiar with the foods good to eat with moderation and those foods that should be avoided.

Today we will detail to the readers about those foods that own a high level of oxalates so that they can balance the daily diet and take care of their health.

High Oxalate FoodsFoods with a high content of oxalates:

  • Vegetables: Green beans, yellow and dry, beet, tooth of lion, eggplant, endive, cabbage, leek, green mustard, parsley, pepper, potato, turnip, spinach, pumpkin, roots and sharp leaves of betabel, carrots, chicory, peppers, green cabbages, bell peppers, olives (green), beet, tomatoes, zucchini, soup.
  • Cereals: Plum white corn cake, semoline, cakes of soy bean, whole wheat and wheat based foods, amaranth, black wheat, corn semoline, pretzels, toasted bread, bread made of whole wheat, wheat flour.
  • Fruits: Blackberry, currant, raspberry, mill, bilberry, cocktail of fruits, black grapes, skin of lemon, skin of Lima and skin of orange, rhubarb, mandarins and juice of these fruits.
  • Fruit droughts and fats: Sesame butter, peanuts, almonds, hazelnuts, pecan nuts, pistachios, seeds, nuts of soybean.
  • Drinks: Beer out of barrel, tea, black tea, milk with chocolate, instantaneous coffee, ovaltine, milk of soybean.
  • Several: sauce of soybean, chocolate, jams, commercial tomato sauces, conserves made out of tomato sauce.

Foods that have significant amounts of oxalates (each 100 gr.)

  • Rhubarb 600 mgs
  • Spinach 600 mgs
  • Beet 500 mgs
  • Fruits droughts 187 mgs
  • Chocolates and products with cacao 117 mgs
  • Parsley 100 mgs
  • Tea 55 to 78 mgs

Article Resource: http://patientdiets.com/2010/high-oxalate-foods-avoid-renal-condition/

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