Banting Diet
Banting Diet
Banting Diet
All eggs
All meats, poultry and game
All natural and cured meats (pancetta,
parma ham, coppa etc)
All natural and cured sausages
(salami, chorizo etc)
All offal
All seafood (except swordfish and
tilefish - high mercury content)
Broths
Almonds
Flaxseeds (watch out for pre-ground
flaxseeds, they go rancid quickly and
become toxic)
Macadamia nuts
Pecan nuts
Pine nuts
Pumpkin seeds
Sunflower seeds
Walnuts
SWEETENERS
DAIRY
Cottage cheese
Cream
Cream cheese
Full-cream Greek yoghurt
Full-cream milk
Hard cheeses
Soft cheeses
VEGETABLES
FATS
Erythritol granules
Stevia powder
Xylitol granules
FRUITS
Apples 1.5
Bananas 1 small
Blackberries 3.5 C
Blueberries 1.5 C
Cherries (sweet) 1 C
Clementines 3
Figs 3 small
Gooseberries 1.5 C
Grapes (green) under 1 C
Guavas 2
Kiwi fruits 3
Litchis 18
Mangos, sliced, under 1 C
Nectarines 2
Oranges 2
Pawpaw 1
Peaches 2
Pears (Bartlett) 1
Pineapple, sliced, 1 C
Plums 4
Pomegranate
Prickly pears 4
Quinces 2
Raspberries 2 C
Strawberries 25
Watermelon 2 C
NUTS
Cashews, raw, 6 T
Chestnuts, raw, 1 C
SWEETENERS
Honey 1 t
VEGETABLES
Butternut 1.5 C
Carrots 5
Sweet potato 0.5 C
KEY
C = cups per day
T = tablespoons per day
t = teaspoons per day
g = grams per day
For example: 1.5 apples are all the carbs you
can have off the orange list for the day (if
you want to go into ketosis and make sure
you are under 50g total carbs for the day).
BEVERAGES
Beer, cider
Fizzy drinks (sodas) of any description other than
carbonated water
Lite, zero, diet drinks of any description
DAIRY / DAIRY-RELATED
FATS
GENERAL
MEAT
STARCHY VEGETABLES
Beetroots
Legumes
Parsnips
Peanuts
Peas
Potatoes (regular)
SWEETENERS
Agave anything
Artificial sweeteners (aspartame, acesulfame
K, saccharin, sucralose, splenda)
Cordials
Dried fruit
Fructose
Honey (except for 1 t on orange list)
Malt
Sugar
Sugared or commercially pickled foods with
sugar
Sweets
Syrups of any kind