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Choose breads, rolls, cereals, and pastas made from refined flour, and white rice. Don't have wheat germ, bran cereals, or bran breads.
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Eat vegetables, but avoid vegetable juice cocktails, mushrooms, and potatoes with skin. Canned sweet potatoes are OK but not fresh sweet potatoes.
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Don't have beans, including peas, lentils, and lima, garbanzo, pinto, red, black, or soybeans.
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Don’t eat tofu.
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Don’t eat commercially dried fruit, fruit leathers, raisins, or prunes.
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Don't eat avocados.
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Limit mangos, papayas, pineapple, kiwi, and pears.
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Don't eat foods that contain chocolate or cocoa.
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Don't eat nuts, peanut butter, or other nut butters.
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Don't drink any soy or chocolate drinks, instant breakfast drinks, or meal replacement drinks or bars.
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You may drink milk and eat dairy products that don’t contain soy or chocolate. Choose milk, yogurt, cheese (including cream cheese and cottage cheese), custard, eggs, or coconut milk.
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Eat small portions of animal protein. Don't have pork, lamb, dark-meat turkey or chicken, or organ meats such as liver. Don't have shellfish.
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Don't drink alcohol. It can be harmful to your liver.
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Talk with your healthcare provider before taking a multivitamin. People who are or plan to become pregnant should talk with their healthcare provider before taking a prenatal vitamin, because they contain copper.
