Table 2.

Category 2: Foods allocated without restriction.

2. Foods Allocated without Restriction or Measurement (Defined as Exchange-Free Foods)
(a) Fruits and Vegetables containing phenylalanine ≤75 mg/100 g (except potatoes and vegetable crisps)	Apples, apricots, avocado, bananas, banana chips, bilberries, blackberries, blueberries, candied angelica, candied peel, cherries, clementines, cranberries, currants, custard apples, damsons, dates, dragon fruit, fruit crisps (e.g., apple, pineapple), fruit pie filling, fruit mincemeat, fruit salad, glacé cherries, gooseberries, grapes, grapefruit, greengages, guavas, jackfruit, kiwi fruit, kumquats, lemons, limes, loganberries, lychees, mandarins, mango, medlars, melon, nectarines, olives, oranges, papaya (paw paw), peaches, pears, physalis, pineapple, plums, pomegranate, prickly pear, prunes, quince, raisins, raspberries, rhubarb, satsumas, Sharon fruit, star fruit, strawberries, sultanas, tamarillo, tangerines, watermelon. Artichoke, aubergine, baby corn, beetroot, cabbage, capers, caperberries, carrots, cassava, celeriac, celery, chayote, chicory, courgette, cucumber, dudhi, eddoes, endive, fennel, garlic, gherkin, ginger, green beans (dwarf, French, runner), karela, kohlrabi, leeks, lettuce, marrow, mooli, mushrooms, okra, onion, pak choi, parsnips, peppers, pickled vegetables (e.g., onion, gherkins, red cabbage), plantain, pumpkin, radish, salad cress, samphire, squash (butternut, acorn, spaghetti), swede, sweet potato, tomato, turnip, watercress, water chestnuts. Fruit and vegetable-based foods containing exchange-free fruits/vegetables and other exchange-free ingredients (e.g., frozen or canned fruit/vegetables, tomato puree/passata).
(b) Manufactured foods containing protein ≤0.5 g/100 g or exchange-free ingredients	Sugar (brown, cane, caster, demerara, fruit, glucose, granulated, icing, molasses, muscovado, white). Jam, honey, marmalade, syrup (agave, fruit, golden, maple, treacle). Fats (oils, oil sprays, ghee, lard). Baking ingredients (arrowroot, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, cassava/tapioca flour, cornflour/maize starch, cream of tartar, sago). Aspartame-free drinks (squash, fruit drinks, soft drinks, black/herbal tea and coffee). Artificial sweeteners (except aspartame). Condiments (mint jelly, mint sauce, salt, vinegar). Fibres/gums (e.g., psyllium fibre/husks, xanthan gum). Aspartame-free milkshake powders/syrups and custard powder containing exchange-free ingredients. Plants & cereals (konnyaku, sago, tapioca, cassava crisps).
(c) Manufactured food containing protein >0.5 g/100 g but used in small amounts	Fats (butter, margarine). Herbs, spices, condiments (e.g., pepper). Food colouring and flavourings/essences.
(d) Special low protein foods containing exchange-free ingredients or a phenylalanine content <25 mg/100 g	Low protein: bread (sliced, rolls, baguettes), biscuits, breakfast cereals, cereal bars, cakes, chocolate, chocolate spread, cheese sauce, crackers, cake mix, dessert/custard mixes, egg replacer, fish substitute mixes, flour, pizza bases, pasta, rice, sausage/burger mixes. Low protein milk replacement Prozero (Vitaflo). Includes most UK ACBS prescribed low protein products.