Budwig Diet
Magnesium/Calcium Food Table
by copyright Wilhelm H © 2004 and Healing Cancer Naturally
The following information has been included in Healing Cancer Naturally's Budwig diet section for those who might be concerned about a possible surplus of calcium vs magnesium intake by the daily ingestion of dairy products such as cottage cheese.
The following listing shows, in descending order, common natural foods with a higher magnesium than calcium content, starting with the food boasting the highest magnesium to calcium ratio.
Calcium/magnesium ratio in mg per 100g of food
[For reference: cottage cheese - 61/5 (ca/mg ratio- 12 : 1)]
- Millet - 8/114 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 14.2)
- Pumpkin seeds - 43/535 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 12.4)
- Wheat, red spring - 25/124 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 5)
- Bananas - 6/29 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 4.8 )
- Rice, brown - 33/143 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 4.3)
- Wheat, Durum - 34/144 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 4.2)
- Cowpeas - 85/333 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 3.9)
- Avocados - 11/39 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 3.5)
- Oats - 54/177 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 3.3)
- Sunflower seeds - 116/354 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 3)
- Brazil nuts - 76/225 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 3)
- Lima beans - 81/224 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 2.8)
- Coconuts - 14/32 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 2.3)
- Lentils - 51/107 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 2.1)
- Nutritional yeast 66/130 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 2)
- Flaxseeds - 199/362 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 1.8)
- Pecans - 70/121 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 1.7)
- Walnuts - 98/158 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 1.6)
- Spirulina, dried - 120/195 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 1.6)
- Buckwheat -18/231 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 1.3)
- Potatoes, baked w.skin - 34/43 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 1.3)
- Chlorella, dried - 341/373 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 1.1)
- Hazelnuts - 149/160 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 1.1)
- Garbanzo beans - 105/115 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 1.1)
- Almonds - 248/275 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 1)
- Purslane - 65/68 (ca/mg ratio 1 : 1)
(Data gleaned from www.food-stats.com & www.nutritiondata.com)
Compare The Importance of Minerals and Trace Elements.
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