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23 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Number 6 in the Oxalate Dirty Dozen: rhubarb. Did you ever have a backyard rhubarb plant? If you did, you will have been warned not to eat the leaves. The leaves can actually kill you. What’s in the leaves? Oxalate!
The stalks can’t kill you in a single exposure - but you can definitely get a huge amount of oxalate from them! (Rhubarb makes spinach look like an amateur.) A single half cup of raw diced rhubarb (about 60g) is over 750 mg of oxalate.
Often rhubarb is combined with strawberries (which are low to medium oxalate) for a pie. My recommendation? Just have strawberry pie! Leave the rhubarb in the garden. (You’ll notice that even the bugs don’t eat it).
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Monique Attinger, Low Ox Coach 🇨🇦 Profile picture
25 Mar
Number 8 in the Oxalate Dirty Dozen: Swiss chard. Another leafy green that has received the stamp of approval, especially in the “green drink” world. Yet 1/2 cup raw Swiss chard is over 170 mg oxalate for just 18 grams (or just over 1/2 ounce)!
Chard is higher oxalate than spinach; the only reason it’s not higher in the Dirty Dozen count is that not as many people eat it. But it’s gaining popularity; so this ranking may change! Note that red chard is even higher than green chard with 1/2 cup raw at over 210 mg oxalate.
If you love chard and need a substitute, why not Dino or Lacinato kale? This variety has low oxalate but a great nutrient profile. (Avoid the curly kale generally; while not as high as other greens, you are still ratcheting up your oxalate.)
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24 Mar
Number 7 in the Oxalate Dirty Dozen is teff. Never heard of it? It’s the latest darling in the world of gluten free grains. While many GF grain options are high oxalate, teff is another over-achiever. Just 1/2 cup of teff flour is 130-150 mg of oxalate.
If you compare this to whole wheat flour (the “bad” guy), whole wheat is only about 40 mg oxalate for 1/2 cup. White wheat flour is even less, at about 15 mg per 1/2 cup. Could this explain why some feel better on SAD than a “healthy” eating plan?
It is a hallmark of my clients that need to reduce oxalate that they began eating “extra healthy”, and then got sicker. Then they gave up. They went back to a “bad” diet and felt better. If you have been in this situation, oxalate could be what’s affecting you under the radar.
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22 Mar
Number 5 in our Oxalate Dirty Dozen is the humble beet. This has also become a favourite in the juicing world, where beet juice is prized for its liver support as just one of the possible benefits. The challenge? One cup of beet juice is over 100 mg of oxalate.
And here's the irony: oxalate is moved on the same cell transporters that move sulphate. Your liver is one of the body's biggest consumers of sulphate. So while we believe beet juice supports the liver, it's taking the place of needed sulphate that the liver uses to detox.
Everyone is interested in improving liver detox and sulphation! But if we increase oxalate, we essentially increase the competition for those cell transporters; if oxalate is plentiful in the body, we can have cell transporters move oxalate into tissues, rather than out.
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21 Mar
Number 4 of the Oxalate Dirty Dozen: turmeric. This spice has just taken off, because of its reputation as an inflammation reducer. “Golden Milk” has taken the Internet by storm! But what if it’s reducing inflammation on one hand, and driving it on the other?
It turns out that just 1 teaspoon of turmeric is almost 50 mg of oxalate. If you are drinking Golden Milk just 2x day, you could be adding more than 100 mg of oxalate. But wait! There is a way around this - it’s called curcumin.
Curcumin is the extract from turmeric and you can buy it in bulk powder. Substitute this in your Golden Milk recipe and you lose about 99 mg of oxalate. Extracts are often the solution to high oxalate spices snd herbs, giving you the therapeutic benefits without the oxalate.
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20 Mar
Number 3 in the Oxalate Dirty Dozen: dark chocolate. Dark chocolate is so popular! Low to no sugar but extremely high in oxalate, people often believe they are supporting their magnesium levels. But the magnesium in chocolate likely ends up bound to oxalate and unavailable.
The most recent testing of dark chocolate from Lindt (90% cocoa) had 1 piece (10g) at over 40 mg oxalate; 3 pieces (30g or about 1 ounce) was over 120 mg oxalate. That’s more than a day’s worth of oxalate in a very small “treat”.
I recently got myself in trouble with a low carb ice cream that used dark chocolate bits. I thought the calcium in the ice cream would help to bind some of the oxalate. But at such high concentrations of oxalate, even someone who knows oxalate well got in trouble.
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19 Mar
Number 2 of the oxalate dirty dozen: spinach! Considered one of the healthiest greens but the problem is we aren’t looking at the anti nutrient that’s wrapped up with the nutrients. For instance, while spinach is high in calcium, it’s bound to oxalate. We can’t use it that way.
Just 1/2 cup of “baby” spinach (25 grams or 1/2 ounce) has over 150 mg of oxalate! That’s over 10 mg oxalate per gram of spinach leaves. We used to know this was a problem; spinach used for calcium in rat diets had catastrophic effects. academic.oup.com/jn/article-abs…
Note that rats fed spinach greens for their calcium content did not have bones develop properly. Animals entered the study at 21 days of age; by 90 days, 5 had died. They weighed only 60% of what the group getting turnip greens for calcium weighed. They also couldn’t reproduce.
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