Introduction To Blood Groups
The best way to embark on blood type eating is to select food that suits all blood types, especially when you have O’s, B’s, AB’s and A’s at the same table. Here are some suggestions for you to get started with your healthy new lifestyle.
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, flax seeds, 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 pimentos, and oyster or Portobello 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.