| Foods Allowed | Foods to avoid – natural benzoates | Foods to avoid – added benzoates | |
| Rule | All fresh and frozen fruits or vegetables not listed on the right. | Stone fruit, Berries, and some other fruit. | Fruit and veg that have been altered through a production / manufacturing process and now have a shelf life. |
| Example | Examples of fruit include: apples, oranges, pears, bananas, satsumas, tangerines, melon, pineapple, grapefruit, lemon, lime, grapes, mango’s. Examples of vegetables include: broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, butternut, green beans, runner beans, broad beans spring greens, lettuce, cucumber, onion, garlic, peppers, bean sprouts, rhubarb,chili peppers and beetroot. | Avocado, pumpkin, kidney beans, soy beans’, spinach. Dried fruit and fruit sauce. berries e.g. blackberries, cranberries, blueberries, strawberries, Raspberries, prunes, peaches, papaya, nectarines. tomato puree, sun dried tomato and fresh tomato | Jams and marmalade’s fruit sauces tins or jars of fruit or fruit puree, glazed fruit and chutneys. |
Always try and get your fruit and vegetables in the most natural way possible. This helps to ensure that no production facility could of added sodium benzoate to the product to increase the self life of the product.
We encourage you to find additional ideas and ways of creating food that is fun and healthy to eat.
As we carry on we will be adding recipes to help you