List of High Oxalate Foods

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Oxalates are chemicals found in plant foods but not in most animal foods. Some people are more likely to form kidney stones if they eat foods high in oxalates. You may need to follow a low oxalate diet if you have gout, form kidney stones, do not absorb fat very well or have short bowel syndrome. 

  • Beans, baked in tomato sauce or canned
  • Beans, green, snap, waxed, dried, pod, runner
  • Beer: Lager draft, Tuborg, Pilsner
  • Beets: Tops, roots, greens
  • Bigelow Herbal teas (hot brew time of 4 minutes or longer)
  • Apple Orchard
  • Fruit & Almond
  • I Love lemon
  • Mint Medley
  • Orange & C
  • Orange Spice
  • Perfect Punch
  • Red Raspberry
  • Specially Strawberry
  • Sweet Dreams
  • Take-A-Break
  • Blackberries
  • Blueberries
  • Bread, whole wheat
  • Celery
  • Cheerios (1 cup)
  • Chocolate
  • Chocolate Milk
  • Cinnamon, ground (1 ½ teaspoon or more)
  • Cocoa
  • Cocoa powder
  • Collards
  • Currants, red
  • Dandelion greens
  • Dewberries
  • Eggplant
  • Escarole
  • Fig Newtons
  • Figs, dried
  • Fruit cake (1 slice)
  • Garbanzo beans, canned
  • Ginger (1 tablespoon)
  • Gooseberries
  • Graham crackers
  • Graham flour
  • Grapes, concord
  • Green Tea
  • Grits, white corn
  • Juices containing berries high in oxalates
  • Kale
  • Kamut
  • Kiwi
  • Leeks
  • Lemon peel
  • Lime peel
  • Marmalade
  • Oatmeal
  • Okra
  • Orange peel
  • Ovaltine
  • Parsley
  • Parsnips
  • Peanut Butter
  • Peanuts
  • Pecans
  • Pepper (in excess of 1 teaspoon per day)
  • Peppers, green
  • Pesticides (?*)
  • Pokeweed
  • Popcorn (Oroville Redenbacher, 4 cups)
  • Potatoes
  • Potatoes, sweet
  • Pumpkin (possible irritant)
  • Raspberries, red and black
  • Rhubarb
  • Rutabagas
  • Sesame Seeds
  • Sorrel
  • Soy Products (?)
  • Soy sauce
  • Soybean crackers
  • Soybean curd (tofu)
  • Spelt
  • Spinach
  • Squash, yellow and summer
  • Stone ground flour
  • Strawberries
  • Sunflower seeds
  • Swiss chard
  • Tangerines
  • Tea, black and indian
  • Tomato sauce, canned
  • Turnip Greens
  • Watercress
  • Wheat bran
  • Wheat germ
  • Whole wheat flour
  • Yams
  • Yellow dock

Foods marked with * may cause irritation although they are not high in oxalate.