Snack raw: 3 great alkaline snack ideas

Snacking is as important as breakfast or meals. You need to snack in between breakfast and lunch and lunch and dinner. It does not just make you feel healthy but also decreases your hunger, thereby reducing your craving for food. Alkaline foods are a great snack as they fill your stomach with food and your body with energy. Let’s take a look at some great alkalizing snack ideas:

Carrots: You can swear on them! They are great alkaline foods when taken raw. Organic and rich in alkalinity, they make you feel fuller anytime you grab a bite. Take carrot sticks of raw produce. Try local variety. Take only whole carrot sticks and avoid baby carrot produce. The baby carrots may have been nurtured with some preservatives. So, better to go with the fully-grown sticks. Whenever you hear your stomach rumbling, eat a fresh, energizing carrot.

Apples: Apple in juice forms or in raw fruit form – anything is good. High on alkalinity and rich in anti-oxidants, apples neutralize the acids in your body very easily. You can grab an apple and eat it anywhere -  when stuck in  traffic or on an elevator. Apples come handy for rejuvenating your body’s alkaline content.

Raisins: These are one of the most important sweet items on the alkaline food chart. Raisins  have phenols and borons that are highly beneficial to health. They also taste good to the palate. In fact, they can substitute many of your fatty, sugary acid items.

There are a lot of snack items other than listed here. Bananas, almonds and other fruits are some of them. You can choose what suits your palate. But before you do so, classify and identify to which of the below categories your snack belongs to. Weak acid foods or low alkalizing foods or fully alkaline foods.

Weak Acid Foods: Weak acid foods are not completely harmless. Of course,  they are low on acid and are not that acidifying. But they have a different effect based on your body’s metabolism. If you are already highly acidic, this will add up to your acid content and upset your pH more. One way to find out about the effects of these foods is to check your pH balance before and after the intake of such foods.

Low Alkaline Foods: These are not harmful. They have alkalinity in them, but again, they should not produce acid by-products when they digest. So, check before snacking on such foods.

Alkalizing Foods: All time best snack items. You can bank on them for energy also. If you are not a raw food eater or veggie, choose wisely. Eat what suits your palate. Check how your pH performs after intake of such foods and then make a snack diet plan for the week.