According to Phyllis A. Balch, CNC and James F. Balch, M.D

A diet high in nutrients is the key to good health. Use the following table as a guide when deciding which types of food to include in your diet and which ones to avoid in order to maintain good health.

Type of food	Foods to Avoid	Acceptable Foods
Fruits	Canned, bottled, or frozen fruits with sweeteners added.	All fresh, frozen, stewed, or dried fruits without sweeteners, unsulfured fruits, home-canned fruits.
Vegetables	All canned or frozen with salt or additives.	All raw, fresh, frozen (no additives), or home-canned without salt (undercook vegetables slightly).
Nuts	All salted or roasted nuts; peanuts.	All fresh raw nuts (peanuts in moderation only).
Sprouts and seeds	All seeds cooked in oil or salt.	All slightly cooked sprouts (except alfalfa, which should be raw and washed thoroughly), wheatgrass, all raw seeds.
Grains	All white flour products, white rice, pasta, crackers, cold cereals, instant types of oatmeal and other hot cereals.	All whole grains and products containing whole grains: cereals, breads, muffins, wholegrain crackers, cream of wheat or rye cereal, buckwheat, millet, amaranth, oats, brown rice, wild rice. (Limit yeast breads to three servings per week.)
Beans	Canned pork and beans, canned beans with salt or preservatives, frozen beans.	All beans (especially soy), cooked without animal fat or salt.
Soups	Canned soups made with salt, preservatives, MSG, or fat stock; all creamed soups.	Homemade (salt- and fat-free) bean, lentil, pea, vegetable, barley, brown rice, onion.
Dairy products	All soft cheeses, all pasteurized or artificially colored cheese products, milk, dry milk, dry cream, ice cream.	Raw goat cheese, nonfat cottage cheese, kefir, unsweetened yogurt, goat’s milk, buttermilk.
Eggs	Fried or pickled.	Boiled or poached (limit of four weekly).
Fish	All fried fish, all shellfish, salted fish, anchovies, fish canned in oil.	All freshwater white fish, salmon, broiled or baked fish, water-packed tuna.
Meats	Beef; all forms of pork; hot dogs; luncheon meats; smoked, pickled, and processed meats; corned beef; duck; goose; spare ribs; gravies; organ meats.	Skinless turkey and chicken, lamb. (Limit meat to 3-oz servings per week.)
Oils (fats)	All saturated fats, hydrogenated margarine, refined processed oils, shortenings, hardened oils.	All cold-pressed, unrefined oils: flaxseed, rapeseed (canola oils), olive, soybean, walnut, pumpkin seed, sesame, sunflower, corn, safflower, eggless mayonnaise.
Beverages	Alcoholic drinks, coffee, cocoa, pasteurized and/or sweetened juices and fruit drinks, sodas, tea (except herbal tea).	Herbal teas, fresh vegetable and fruit juices, cereal grain beverages (often sold as coffee substitutes), distilled or mineral water.
Sweets	White sugar, corn syrups, chocolate, sugar candy, fructose (except that in fresh whole fruit), all syrups (except pure mapple syrup) all sugar substitutes, jams and jellies made with sugar.	Small amounts of natural, pure (organic), raw (not heated) bee honey, barley malt or rice syrup, pure mapple syrup, unsulfured blackstrap molasses, stevia.
Seasonings	Black or white pepper, salt, hot red peppers, all types of vinegar except pure natural apple cider vinegar.	Garlic, onions, red pepper, all herbs, dried vegetables, apple cider vinegar, tamari, miso, seaweed, dulse.