Group

Recommend

Avoid

Milk & milk products (2 or more cups daily)

all milk products

Low Residue Diet only 2 cups daily of all milk products

Vegetables
(3 or more servings daily)

lettuce; vegetable juice without pulp; the following cooked vegetables: yellow squash (without seeds), green beans, wax beans, spinach, pumpkin, eggplant, potatoes, without skin, asparagus, beets, carrots

vegetable juices with pulp, raw vegetables except lettuce, cooked vegetables not on Recommend list

Fruits (2 or more servings daily)

fruit-juices without pulp, canned fruit except pineapple, ripe bananas, melons

fruit-juices with pulp, canned pineapple, fresh fruit except those on Recommend list, prunes, prune juice, dried fruit, jam, marmalade

Starches-Bread & grains (4 or more servings daily)

bread and cereals made from refined flours, pasta, white rice

whole-grain breads, cereals, rice, pasta; bran cereal; oatmeal

Meat or meat substitutes (5 to 6 oz daily)

meat, poultry, eggs, seafood

chunky peanut butter, nuts, seeds, dried beans, dried peas

Fats and oils (servings depend on caloric needs)

all oils, margarine, butter

coconut

Sweets and desserts (servings depend on caloric needs)

all not on Avoid list

desserts containing nuts, coconut

Miscellaneous

all not on Avoid list

popcorn, pickles, horseradich, relish

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