PRAL List

PRAL LISTS (Potential Renal Acid Load)

An important part of The Molecular Fitness Lifestyle™ is balancing your diet with alkalinizing and connexin-enhancing foods with the goal of consuming a net alkalinizing diet every day. 

The following food tables give you PRAL values (Potential Renal Acid Load) for major food groups to help you understand which foods are alkalinizing and which foods are acidifying in your body. Negative numbers indicate alkalinizing foods and positive numbers indicate acidifying foods.  You can also find more PRAL tables as well as lists of connexin-enhancing foods (such as capers, parsley, green tea and red wine) in Dr. Tanelian’s book Molecular Fitness: The Connexin Connection to Optimal Health (see chapters 7 & 8).

You can easily check the acidity of your diet by measuring your urine pH 3-4 hours after meals. The average American consumes an acidifying diet with an average urine pH of 5.5-6.0, whereas it is generally preferable to be at 7.0-8.0, an environment that enhances connexin function.

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