Crisps, Chips, nuts and Savory snacks
| Foods Allowed | Foods to avoid – natural benzoates | Foods to avoid – added benzoates | |
| Rule | Any products that are in their natural form or do not have benzoates in them. READ THE LABELS | Any products that have had natural herbs and spices added | Items altered through a production / manufacturing process and now have a shelf life. Items with added flavorings |
| Example | Plain nuts, seeds and plain or ready salted chips and crisps without spices READ THE LABELS | Dry roasted nuts, Bombay mix, spicy nuts or flavored crisps and chips. READ THE LABELS |
Sweets and chocolates
| Foods Allowed | Foods to avoid – natural benzoates | Foods to avoid – added benzoates | |
| Rule | Any products that are in their natural form or do not have benzoates in them. READ THE LABELS | Any products that have had natural herbs and spices added | Items altered through a production / manufacturing process and now have a shelf life. Items with added flavorings |
| Example | All sweets, chewing gum with allowed ingredients, sugar, honey, ginger, apple and pear preserves, lemon curd, molasses, maple syrup, corn syrup and icing sugar. All other artificial sweeteners READ THE LABELS | Cocoa, cinnamon sticks | Chocolate and chocolate products, cake decorations. Cola cubes, cola chew-its etc. Liquid artificial sweetener e.g. Sweet-ex liquid. READ THE LABELS |
By far the one of the worst items to remove is chocolate. For the sweet tooth person we recommend you look at our crunchy recipe.