Table 1.

Low sucrose diet.

Foods to avoid

Cereals with added sugars Apple, apricot, banana, cantaloupe, grapefruit, melon, mango, orange, peach, pineapple, tangerine Carrot, potato Beans, chickpeas, green peas, lentils, peas, soy Yogurt sweetened with sucrose, sweetened condensed milk, sweetened cream Sugar (sucrose), ice cream, all desserts made with sugar, marmalade, candies, jellies, chocolate, licorice, commercial cookies and cakes with added sugar, sweetened drinks

Foods allowed

Wheat, rice, corn, einkorn, oats, kamut, spelt, rye, bread, pasta, flour, cereals with no added sugar * Avocado, berries, cherries, fig, grapes, kiwi, lemon, lime, olives, papaya, pear, pomegranate, prune, strawberries All vegetables Milk, dairy product, butter, cream, cheeses, yogurt sweetened with dextrose or fructose All meat, fish, and eggs All fats Fructose, honey, cocoa, unsweetened juice, homemade low-sucrose cookies and cakes

* In patients who can ingest starch at 40–50 grams per serving two to three times per day.