Alkaline foods to combine with tomatoes

[gardeninglee]

This is one of my favorite dishes from a local thai restaurant. Tomatoes, okra, onions and ginger sauteed together with a little fish sauce and lemon! Unbelievable!

Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

I like the combination of tomatoes, okra, and onions. They seem to balance a dish and add a lot of good flavor. I really like Cajun and Mexican food. A local Asian restaurant serves tomatoes and cucumbers in Italian salad dressing/oil.

[dmforcier]

Alkaline foods to balance tomatoes?

Ummm... Lettuce and bacon ?

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by dmforcier

Alkaline foods to balance tomatoes?

Ummm... Lettuce and bacon ?

Bacon 5.5 - 6.2
All lettuce way under 7 and some in the 5's.

Just about all food is on the acid side.

[Worth1]

There are other players that cause heartburn besides acid or indigestion.
Foods that are hard to digest preservatives and caffeine are the big culprits.
Your body produces hydrochloric acid.
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Worth

[Captain Neon]

Originally Posted by peppero

When I had undiagnosed sleep apnea I had alot of problems with acid reflux. I got help from a sleep center. Ihave been using a CPAP machine for 25 years. It is an inconvenience but I can eat HOT spicy food with No PROBLEMS. As a bonus it also saved my life. If any of you snore and have little energy you might have sleep apnea and the accompanying reflux problem.

Jon

I went on CPAP a year ago. I fell asleep at work in the middle of a meeting. I didn't even feel myself getting drowsier. I had an AHI over 82, and was getting no REM. It didn't help my acid indigestion, but I am now better able to breathe through my nose during the day. Cucumbers are much more likely to cause me indigestion than tomatoes.

I still love my Mountain Dew and Coke, but I can now enjoy them as beverages rather than self-medication to stay awake. Were it not for CPAP, there is no way that I could work two jobs and grow tomatoes.

[oakley]

Avocado....cucumber, tomato, chopped apple, lots of cilantro and parsley including their finely chopped stems...
Lots of variations from the garden but key i believe is the avocado.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by oakley

Avocado....cucumber, tomato, chopped apple, lots of cilantro and parsley including their finely chopped stems...
Lots of variations from the garden but key i believe is the avocado.

It is also the parsley and one of the reasons it is used as a garnish on your plate but many people including cooks dont know this now.

[Father'sDaughter]

If you have regular and frequent heartburn and haven't already done so, make sure you get it checked out. My husband suffered with it for years thinking diet was the cause of it. He finally talked to his doctor about it and was diagnosed with a hiatal hernia. And while Nexium keeps it under control, his doctor orders an upper GI exam every 7 years or so just to make sure there has been no damage done to his esophagus.

And I don't know who loves his CPAP machine more, me or him!

[Gardeneer]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Bacon 5.5 - 6.2
All lettuce way under 7 and some in the 5's.

Just about all food is on the acid side.

That is mostly true. However according to the link that you provided (FDA list) there are few things that are almost neutral or slightly alkaline . Here are some ;
Tea, coffee, carrots (cooked, frozen ), egg white .corn (frozen)
Most see food are low acid ( pH 6 to 7. ). That is why you have to use them as fresh as you can get. Otherwise they will go bad fast if not frozen.

In the fruits category Honey Dew melon is the highest in pH ( my number one favorite fruit) 5.9 to 6.7
I never liked strawberry and pineapple, even before knowing what their acidity was. That burning tong sensation tells me something.

[AlittleSalt]

Originally Posted by gardeninglee

This is one of my favorite dishes from a local thai restaurant. Tomatoes, okra, onions and ginger sauteed together with a little fish sauce and lemon! Unbelievable!

That sounds really good.

My favorite way to eat tomatoes is my Tomatoville name - with a little salt. Yet, I cannot drink orange juice which is 3.3 - 4.5 on the PH scale reportedly. I actually like fresh squeezed orange juice, and love oranges. It makes me wonder - why is store bought orange juice so acidic?

[Gardeneer]

Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

That sounds really good.

My favorite way to eat tomatoes is my Tomatoville name - with a little salt. Yet, I cannot drink orange juice which is 3.3 - 4.5 on the PH scale reportedly. I actually like fresh squeezed orange juice, and love oranges. It makes me wonder - why is store bought orange juice so acidic?

There is a huge difference in acidity between pH 3.3 and 4.5.
I can give you an example based on household vinegar, which contains 5% Acetic Acid. That vinegar has a pH = 2.40.
If you want to get a vinegar / water solution wit a pH = 3 you have to dilute it 14.9 times . If you want a solution with pH = 4 then have to dilute household vinegar by a factor of 1490.
This example is on Acetic Acid and not all acids will be the same. But the point is that a little acid can go a long way. The fast and sure way to reduce acid is by adding alkaline to the solution to chemically neutralize it. That is what antacid tablets do.

ADDED>
Baking Soda has pH of 9
Sea Water has pH of 8
So a little salt on the tomato can go a long way to reduce acid..

[NarnianGarden]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

Me too. I can drink coffee all day, warm or cold.
Coffee has a high pH , over 6 to 6.5. And if you use dark roast it will be even less acidic. Very close to neutral. And that will also depend on the water that you brew with.
I use French Roast (medium Dark ). Taste robust with less acid.

French Roast preferred here too. Or even Espresso roast.
The challenge is to make it so strong that ice cannot over dilute it..

My flat is so hot that any liquid in the summer will soon become a breeding ground for molds, fungi and others
If I forget some coffee in my press-down coffee maker, in a few days it is all moldy

[Cole_Robbie]

I always thought it was odd that black coffee, which has zero calories, would grow mold. Apparently, from what I now read, it's the small amount of nitrogen that feeds the mold: http://web.extension.illinois.edu/dm...te/110109.html