Though the process is simple, it is very long-winded, as you have to add up the values of everything you eat and drink everyday. This is why I want to automate the food diary to save you time. It may be a few months before I can make this happen.

You need to look at your entire diet not just one item. Even then, the food charts are only a guide, and you have to confirm the changes within your own body by testing the pH of your urine. This can give fantastic benefits as Christina noted above.

The process is only slightly related to gout, which is why I moved these food charts to this website.

At this stage, you would be best reading all my diet for gout information, then asking any questions in the gout forum related to that site.

If you want it back, please ask by way of a comment here, explaining why it is important, and I will see if I can retrieve it.

I am really pleased the charts have helped you. Parsley soup sounds interesting. Do you have a recipe?

I do not understand where your alternative formula for PRAL comes from. As I said in the article, I use the method from Remer & Manz. Are you suggesting there is an alternative PRAL calculation? If so, can you let me know the references to it?

I know there is a different formula called NEAP, however, this is a more complex calculation, and I do not see the benefit of over-complicating it.

The whole point of these charts is to give some pointers to where you might improve your diet to improve pH, but only testing will tell. As I wrote above:

Use PRAL values as a guide – the real measure of your progress can only be determined by measuring the pH of your urine. This is a simple process using widely available test strips or meters.

The whole point of the PRAL calculation is to keep things as simple as possible. It ignores the effects of less common nutrients, as their influence will be minimal. If you have an over-reliance on caffeine, alcohol, carbonated water, and aspartame, then you have a very bad diet indeed. No amount of juggling with items from PRAL tables is going to fix such a poor diet.

You could get the same approximate results using.

PRAL of Daily Values = 0.245A+.37P-.735K-.104M-.13C
The reason I want to show this formula is because if look at daily values this shows how alkalizing/acid forming each nutrient is.
However I think more should be involved in the formula. For example how acid forming is caffeine, alcohol, carbonated water, aspartame, and the other minerals are. caffeine, alcohol, carbonated water, and aspartame I read are very acid forming. However you site shows they are alkalizing because it only calculate nutrients.

That will have features that allow finding food items easier, as well as easy ways to assess recipes and different serving sizes. For the moment, there is an excellent search facility in the bar at the top of each page, which makes finding vinegar, or any other diet item, very easy.

I ran into two small problems. I was trying to find a value for vinegar and thought it would be under gravies and sauces, thinking it might relate to sauces. Later stumbled upon it under herbs and spices. Problem solved.

Then second problem. Since I’m trying to calculate recipes enough to adequately offset acid ingredients like meat, I need quantities in a recipe-friendly form. It could well be I just missed it, but didn’t see anything to tie vinegar to tablespoons.

Found your site after being made aware of the whole acid/alkaline problem by the book Building Bond Vitality by Lanou and Castleman. You might want to mention the book on your site. Now that I understand more about acid/alkaline and other bone-building issues I didn’t know about in time, I realize that osteoporosis is not a disease. It is a form of starvation, like scurvy, beri-beri, or goiter. And gout?

Thanks,
Donn Cole