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DIET INFORMATION

FRUCTOSE FREE DIET

Dairy

Foods Permitted: Any milk, cheese, eggs

Foods Prohibited: Milk products w/added sugar (sweetened yogurt, fruit yogurt, milkshake, chocolate milk)

Meat

Foods Permitted: Beef, veal, lamb, pork

Foods Prohibited: Ham, bacon, hot dogs, processed meats; any other meat where sugar is used in processing

Fish

Foods Permitted: All fish

Foods Prohibited: None

Poultry

Foods Permitted: Chicken, turkey

Foods Prohibited: None

Cereal

Foods Permitted: Cooked or ready-to-eat cereals (except sweetened & sugar-coated cereals)

Foods Prohibited: Sweetened/sugar-coated cereals

Fruit

Foods Permitted: None

Foods Prohibited: All fruits, fruit juices, incl squashes & cordials, & fruit extracts

Vegetables

Asparagus, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, green beans, green peppers, lettuce, nuts, onions, potatoes, spinach, wax beans

Foods Prohibited: All other vegetables, incl sweet potatoes

Bread

Foods Permitted: Breads prepared w/o fructose, sucrose, sugar, or sorbitol; soda crackers & saltines

Foods Prohibited: Any breads or crackers prepared w/fructose/sucrose/sugar/sorbitol

Fat sources

Foods Permitted: Butter, margarine, oil, mayonnaise/mustard prepared w/o sugar

Foods Prohibited: Mayonnaises, mustards, & salad dressings made w/sugar

Desserts & sweeteners

Foods Permitted: Dietetic jello, dietetic ice cream, dietetic puddings; natural yogurt; glucose, dextrose, dextrin, maltose & zero-calorie sweeteners

Foods Prohibited: All desserts containing sugar (cake, pie, cookies, candy, jello, ice cream, sherbet, honey, fruit juice); sugar, sucrose, sorbitol, fructose

Miscellaneous

Foods Permitted: Vegetable juices, coffee, tea, salt, pepper, broths/soups from permitted vegetables; some sugar substitutes; some dietetic beverages; pasta; rice; cinnamon, garlic, poppy seeds; peanut butter (when pure & w/o added sugars)

Foods Prohibited: Ketchup & any other sauces/condiments containing sugar, jam, jelly, preserves, carbonated beverages/soda; peanut butter if prepared w/added sugars; chewing gum w/sorbitol