Healthy eating foods during chemotherapy

Avoid the following foods:- alcohol (most types, except red wine and good malt whisky)
- bbq or burnt foods
- biscuits & cakes (when not home-made with good ingredients)
- doughnuts
- fast foods
- fizzy drinks
- grapefruit
- margarine: hydrogenated or partly hydrogenated
- processed foods, eg. cheese, sausages, hot dogs, ham
- sweeteners
- white bread
- white refined flour

Highly recommended foods:
- apricots
- artichokes
- asparagus
- avocados
- bananas
- beans
- beetroot
- berries
- blackcurrants
- brazil nuts
- brewer's yeast
- broccoli
- cabbage
- carrots
- Cauliflower
- cereals
- cherries
- citrus fruits including zest (except grapefruit)
- cod
- cranberries
- eggs
- fish
- flaxseed oil
- game
- garlic
- ginger
- grains
- grapes
- halibut
- herring
- kiwi fruit
- lean meat
- leeks
- linseed oil
- mackerel
- melons
- nuts
- oily fish
- olive oil
- onions
- organic food
- parsley
- peaches
- peppers
- pomegranate juice
- poultry
- pulses
- pumpkin
- rhubarb
- rosehip
- salmon
- sardines
- sea bass
- seeds
- sesame seeds
- shark
- shellfish
- shiitake mushrooms
- soya product
- spinach
- spirulina (available in health shops)
- squash
- sunflower seeds
- sweet potatoes
- tea: green and white, herbal teas, rooibos
- tomatoes
- tuna
- turmeric
- vegetables
- wheat germ