Worst foods for high Omega-6 and low Omega-3. This does not mean that these foods are not healthy, but rather it means you need to eat a lot more high Omega-3 foods to help balance it out.
For my own diet, I eat almost none of the high O-6 foods, although carrots, sweet potatoes and some of the fruits are often included on my diet, especially fruits in the summer time. I succumb to grits (shrimp and grits) occasionally, and I love hummus (which is made with chick peas) although I eat a lot less of it anymore.
Vegetables
Beets, and Beet greens
Carrots, raw
Okra
Parsnips
Sweet potato
Fruit
Avocado
Olives
Peach
Pear, Asian
Tomato
Grain
Amaranth
Corn
Corn grits
Oats
Brown rice, brown rice flour
Rye
Sorghum
Spelt
Sprouted wheat
Sweet corn
Hard red winter wheat
Legumes
Chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
Dry roasted peanuts
Peanut butter
Seeds
Cottonseed
Pumpkin
Safflower
Sesame
Sunflower
Nuts
Brazil nuts
Pine nuts
Meats/Seafood
factory grain-fed meats
Oils
Corn oil
Sunflower oil
Misc
Bread (whole grain is 3X higher in O-6 than white bread, go figure!)
Cheerios
Corn flakes
Ketchup
Marshmallows
Portabella mushrooms, raw
Oatmeal
Shredded wheat
Spaghetti (WW is worse than white)
Most of what I eat on that list was the veggies, and a few avocados and peaches. I was wondering about the ketchup. Is it because the tomato was on the list, or because commercially made has corn syrup?
ReplyDeleteAlso I noticed canned peaches were on the ok list, but apparently fresh peaches aren't ok? What about fresh frozen peaches w/o any sweetener? (That's what mine are.)
This is info for thought. Thanks for posting it all.
Sorry, that's all the info I could find without writing a book.
DeleteI don't know why canned peaches are okay if drained, but not fresh peaches. Cooking in syrup must somehow alter the O-6. I would guess frozen have the same profile as fresh peaches.
Now I think on it, heat destroys some of these oils, so the processed peaches would be ok, if that's the case. Freezing would not destroy the oils, I don't think, so I bet you are correct.
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