Phosphate Swap Shop
AVOID |
TRY INSTEAD |
|---|---|
| Meat
Liver, kidney, pate, sausages, salami, meat pastes |
Fresh Beef, Lamb, pork, chicken, turkey |
| Fish
Crab, sardines, kippers, whitebait, fish roe, monk fish, sea bass, prawns, bones of tinned fish |
Fresh Cod, Whiting, plaice, lemon sole, tuna, salmon |
| Bread, rolls and scones
Naan bread, soda bread, scones |
Ciabatta, garlic bread, pitta, white sliced bread, brown sliced bread, baguettes, croissants, granary rolls, soft & crusty white rolls. |
| Rice and Pasta
Brown Rice and brown pasta |
White Pasta, plain noodles, basmati rice, white rice |
| Breakfast Cereals
All Bran, Branflakes, muesli, cereals containing nuts or chocolate, Ready Brek, wheat germ. |
Porridge, Weetabix, Oatibix, Shredded Wheat, Cheerios, Rice Krispies, Special K, Cornflakes, Frosties*, |
| Biscuits, cakes, pastry, buns
Oat based biscuits, oatcakes, flapjacks, rye crispbreads, and biscuits containing nuts or chocolate, scones, cake mixes, waffles, cakes containing nuts or chocolate, instant dessert mixes. |
In moderation*, Gingernuts, custard creams, jammy dodgers, Jam rings, Shortcake, Shortbread, Madeira cake, pastry, doughnuts, jam tarts, crumbles, tarts, lemon meringue pie More suitable in moderation on a reduced sugar diet Rich Tea, Marietta, Lincoln, Digestives, water biscuits, cream crackers Please note: that a considerable number of the above suggestions are a source of added phosphates and should be considered as “treat foods”. |
| Sweets / snack food
Chocolate and foods containing chocolate such as cakes, bars or sweets, fudge, toffees, cereal bars, nuts |
In moderation*, Boiled Sweets, marshmallows, jellies, mints, Turkish delight (no chocolate)
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| Beverages
Horlicks, Ovaltine, Drinking Chocolate, Complan, Build Up, Cola Drinks
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Tea, lemonade, tonic water, lucozade, ginger ale. You can use most dilutible drinks – check the label and avoid those with a fruit juice content of more than 12% |