SALICYLATE Chart
FOOD SALICYLATE CONTENT Please note: This is a list of salicylate content in foods, not phenol content. Salicylate is one type of phenol. Salicylate forms a problem for people with various forms of behaviour problem, known as Attention Deficit Syndrome, Hyperactive Syndrome and by other names. This list does not show the total phenol content of foods, and is therefore only of limited use to people with phenol intolerance, because salicylate is only one for of phenol. * Also high in monosodium glutamate % Also high in amines Salicylates are highest in unripened fruit and decrease as fruit ripens. They are often concentrated just under the skin of fruit and vegetables and in the outer leaves of vegetables. All fruit and vegetables should be ripe and thickly peeled. Do not eat the outer leaves of leafy vegetables. FRUIT ----- NEGLIGIBLE LOW MODERATE HIGH VERY HIGH Banana % Apple-golden Apple-red Apple-Granny Apricot Pear (peeled) delicious delicious Smith Blackberry Paw paw% Custard apple Apple-Jonathan Blackcurrant Nashi Pears Fig% Avocado% Blueberry Lemon% Grapefruit Boysenberry Loquat Kiwi fruit% Cherry Mango Lychee Cranberry Pear (with Mandarin% Currant peel) (dried) Tamarillo% Mulberry Date% Nectarine Grape*% Passionfruit% Guava Peach Loganberry Pomegranate Orange Suqar Banana% Pineapple Watermelon Plum Prune Raisin(dried) Raspberry Redcurrant Rockmelon Strawberry Sultana-dried Tangelo Tangerine Youngberry VEGETABLES