Food - The Good and the Bad

A diet low in B6 may be helpful in lessening neuropathy symptoms and perhaps helping to reduce the amount of B6 in tissues.  

Foods High in B6 (avoid):

Avocado  Banana  Breadfruit  Cherimoya  Dates  Gooseberries  Grapes  Guava  Lychee  Mango  Passion Fruit  Pineapple  Pomegranate  Watermelon

Amaranth Leaves  Bok Choy  Broccoli  Brussels Sprouts  Butternut Squash  Celeriac  Corn  French Beans  Green Pepper  Kale  Lima Beans  Okra  Peas  Potatoes  Spirulina  Spaghetti Squash  Squash - winter  Sweet Potato  Taro

Chestnuts  Filberts/Hazelnuts Pistachios  Pumpkin Seeds  Rice Brown  Rye  Sunflower Seeds  Walnuts  Wheat - Durum  Wheat - Hard Red Wheat - Hard White

Chicken Breast  Chicken (dark meat)  Catfish  Cod  Herring  Pollock  Salmon  Sardines  Tuna  Pork  Soy Beans  Soy Milk  Turkey Breast Turkey Bacon Veal  Turkey Leg  Roast Duck  Hamburger  Beef Sausage Ground Turkey  Ground Chicken

Foods relatively low in B6:

Goat Yogurt Egg Whites Butter

Apples Pears Tangerine

Artichoke Asparagus Bamboo Shoots Beets Carrots Celery Eggplant Fennel Iceburg Lettuce

Olive Oil Extra Virgin Olive Oil Sunflower Oil Palm Oil Cottonseed Oil Sherbert Seaweed Oolong Tea

Foods with hidden B6:

B6 (Pyridoxine) is added to flour, corn meal, breakfast cereals, and many baked goods.  Vitamin B6 is in almost all foods, to some extent.  And, unfortunately, it's often hidden.  It's not on the nutritional label of processed foods, even though it is contained in it.  Potato chips, for example, are high in B6 (Pyridoxine), yet  not listed on the label.  This is a good reason to avoid processed food.

Links that provide B6 content in foods:

• Foods listed by low B6 content
• B6 Food Charts
• Complete nutritional content of individual food items