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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3891391, member: 27832&quot;]That&#039;s a cool graphic, but it looks like it&#039;s completely scrambled. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Grapefruit, a citrus, listed as <i>alkaline</i>? It&#039;s strongly acidic, pH less than 4. In fact, I&#039;m having a hard time thinking of <i>any</i> foods that are significantly alkaline, unless you count individual <i>ingredients</i> like baking soda or lime (the mineral, not the fruit).</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.clemson.edu/extension/food/food2market/documents/ph_of_common_foods.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.clemson.edu/extension/food/food2market/documents/ph_of_common_foods.pdf" rel="nofollow">Here&#039;s a table that cites actual academic sources</a>; it&#039;s not a graphic, but I think I trust it more.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know there are lots of people who are very concerned about maintaining an alkaline &quot;body pH&quot;, but as far as I can tell it&#039;s all based on complete misunderstandings about biology and chemistry. I see discussion about the pH of &quot;ash&quot; left when food is &quot;burned&quot; in your body, but that&#039;s more runaway metaphor than science.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your body works very effectively to maintain a stable pH, different for different tissues, but stable within each tissue. You can eat stuff to change your <i>urine&#039;s</i> pH, and you can eat or drink or breathe stuff to change your <i>blood&#039;s</i> pH (acidosis), but in general your body <i>neutralizes</i> anything excessively acidic or alkaline that you ingest.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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