Citations:acid-ash

English citations of acid-ash

• 1930, D. Breese Jones, Acid-forming and Alkali-forming Foods, US Bureau of Chemistry and Soils: Protein and Nutrition Division, →OCLC, page 1:

  A satisfactory diet should contain enough of the alkaline-ash foods to balance the acid-ash foods. In health the body is always slightly alkaline.

• 1933, United States Tariff Commission, Dried Beans and Black-eye Cowpeas, U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, pages 25–26:

  An attempt has been made to market Lima beans as flour, and as “Lima bean toast” and “Lima bean wafers” to provide an alkaline substitute for similar products made from the bread grains, which are “acid-ash” foods.

• 2005 March 3, Frank Cerniglia Jr., Shirley W. Ekvall, “Myelomeningocele”, in Shirley W. Ekvall, Valli K. Ekvall, editors, Pediatric Nutrition in Chronic Diseases and Developmental Disorders, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 101:

  Urinary tract infections produce significant health problems. Acidification of the urine by dietary means helps decrease bacterial growth. Thus, the acid-ash diet, which is high in meats, poultry, seafood, eggs, fats, and cereals and low in vegetable and fruits, has been promoted. The acid-ash foods include all foods from the meat and bread groups; a few from the vegetable (corn hominy, and lentils) and fruit groups (cranberries, plums, prunes), cakes; cookies; and plain gelatin.