Candida Recipes: Prepare Your Candida Diet

Candida diets are the foods and drinks that are either eaten or avoided during a yeast infection. Candida recipes for the diet can be easily available in your kitchen but figuring out what to eat might be difficult. Below are some of the easy and healthy recipes for the diet. 

Some of the Candida fighting foods are coconut oil, garlic, onions, seaweed, almonds, ginger, olive oil, lemon and lime juice, pumpkin seeds and cayenne pepper. These foods, either consumed alone or cooked with other ingredients are beneficial to kill the yeast cells because of their anti-fungal and detoxification properties and support of digestive and immune system.  One of the simple Candida recipes is preparing ginger tea that helps in soothing the inflammation of the intestinal tract during an infection. Ginger also helps to stimulate body’s immune and digestive system. 

The ingredients required are 1 square inch piece of fresh ginger root, lemon, and 2 cups of water. Peel of the ginger cover, grate it and add to boiling water. After boiling the water for 20 minutes, strain it and serve it with a slice of lemon. Limes or lemons also increase the efficiency of digestion and can be used for seasoning meat and vegetables. Olive oil with lemon juice can be used to prepare easy and healthy salad dressings for Candida diet. One should also avoid soy sauce and salad dressings from the market during a yeast infection. The dressing can also be modified to add plain yogurt, garlic, pepper and salt to your taste in the dressing.

Anti- Candida tonic can be easily prepared using garlic. Crush 2-4 cloves of garlic, mix it with water, and drink every day. Pumpkin seeds are high in Omega-3 fatty acids that have anti-fungal properties and can fight depression or pain resulted from Candida infection. An easy recipe is adding pumpkin seeds to cereals, smoothies, salads or eating it alone as a snack is a great Omega-3 source. Cayenne pepper, that supports both immune and digestive system, can use to add spice to your food while fighting off Candida.

For Candida recipes, one should be careful about the ingredients being used. Using natural sweeteners such as Stevia and Xylitol instead of refined sugar can help reduce carbohydrate intake and control blood glucose level. Foods such as breads and pasta must also be avoided to reduce carbohydrate intake. Coconut bread is a good staple food for Candida diet. With careful ingredient choice and diet plan, recipes for Candida diet can be easily prepared with food from your kitchen.