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22 Alkaline Breakfast Foods So That Your Day Starts Well

May 27, 2023 by Food For Net
Home ‣ Breakfast ‣ 22 Alkaline Breakfast Foods So That Your Day Starts Well
Alkaline Breakfast Foods. Two glasses of an alkaline smoothie, fried mushrooms in a pan and a bowl of buckwheat porridge

These days, alkaline diets are often promoted as a way to improve health. This is based on the idea that the pH of your food can influence the way that your body functions. Modern diets are often highly acidic, which suggests that alkaline breakfast foods could be better for you than acidic ones. 

The underlying theory is based on the idea that metabolic waste may be neutral, acidic, or alkaline, and that the pH of this waste is directly related to the food that you eat. Excess acidic metabolic waste (or ash, as it is sometimes called), could then make your blood more acidic, causing flow-on effects throughout your body. 

The idea is controversial, there’s no denying that. 

While many people swear by an alkaline diet, others claim that the whole concept is nonsense. Our bodies keep a tight rein on pH, so it seems unlikely that our diet could directly influence pH. 

Still, the human body is complicated and there is a lot that we don’t know. Alkaline rich foods do tend to be good for you anyway, so you may see some benefits from focusing on this type of food, regardless of the evidence behind the diet. Some of these foods could even be relevant for vaginal pH.

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  • Alkaline Breakfast Foods (With Pictures!)
    • Avocados
    • Tomatoes
    • Leafy Greens
    • Eggs
    • Chia Seed Pudding
    • Alkaline Pancakes
    • Grain Free Granola
    • Smoothies 
    • An Alkaline Soup
    • Quinoa Porridge 
    • Buckwheat Porridge
    • Baked Beans
    • Mushrooms
    • Spelt Bread
    • Spelt Wraps
    • Sprouted Bread
    • Grapefruit Juice
    • Breakfast Salad
    • Quinoa Breakfast Bowl
    • Alkaline French Toast
    • Scrambled Tofu
    • Avocados On Alkaline Bread

Alkaline Breakfast Foods (With Pictures!)

Avocados

Various whole avocados on a green background with a branch from a tree and one avocado that has been cut in half

Many classic breakfast options are acid-forming, but thankfully avocados are an exception to this pattern. Avocados also happen to be a good source of healthy fats, along with a variety of other interesting nutrients. 

You can use avocados in many ways, with avocado on toast and guacamole being some of the most popular options. 

However, using avocados for breakfast does get trickier when you’re focusing on alkaline foods, as processed breads and grains tend to be acidic. Thankfully eggs, which we’ll talk about soon, can be viable on an alkaline diet, even though they’re not straightforward. This means that you can take approaches like baking an egg in the hole of an avocado.

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Tomatoes

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Tomatoes are another popular breakfast choice and, interestingly, they’re something that you can still enjoy on an alkaline diet. Like citrus fruit, tomatoes are acidic, but they are alkaline-forming, so the effect is similar to eating alkaline foods. 

There are plenty of ways to use tomatoes, like slicing them for a sandwich or including them as part of a salad. If you’re taking the sandwich approach, you’ll need to be careful about the bread that you use, as many types of bread are acidic. Thankfully, there are some exceptions. We highlight some of these later in the list.

Leafy Greens

A selection of brightly colored leafy greens on a wooden table

Leafy greens don’t have much protein or fat, so you can’t just rely on them for a satisfying breakfast. Even so, leafy greens can be a good addition to your breakfast. They provide you with important nutrients and can taste pretty good too. 

Including leafy greens in a smoothie is a classic way to take advantage of them. This way the flavors of the greens get buried somewhat, but you still get all the nutrients. You can also use leafy greens in other ways, such as including them in a salad or sautéing them.

Eggs

Sliced hard boiled eggs

Eggs are an interesting case, as they’re not vegan-friendly, while most other alkaline foods are. They’re often included in lists of acidic foods but are actually more complicated than they first seem. 

For one thing, eggs tend to be neutral when they are first laid, but the alkalinity increases with the age of the egg. This makes older eggs a better choice on an alkaline diet, as long as they are still safe to eat.

You can also choose to just focus on the egg white, as this tends to be naturally alkaline. Of course, the egg white isn’t as nutritionally rich as egg yolk, so it might not always be a good choice.

In fact, egg whites tend to be slightly alkaline and egg yolks tend to be slightly acidic – making the whole egg roughly neutral. This isn’t too bad for a filling and highly nutritious ingredient.

Regardless of whether you choose older eggs or not, eggs are still an important alkaline breakfast choice, simply because of their protein content. Many other alkaline breakfast foods aren’t very filling at all. This can be a problem first thing in the morning. You need to have enough energy to keep you going for the day. 

Chia Seed Pudding

Two glass jars containing chocolate chia pudding, with raspberries on the top

Chia seeds tend to have a moderate alkalizing effect on the body. This is good news, as these tiny seeds are a powerful source of many important nutrients. They’re also an easy way to increase your fiber intake. 

The seeds are small and don’t have much flavor at all, so you can eat them in many different ways. An easy approach is to simply sprinkle the seeds on your normal breakfast. 

You can also try a chia seed pudding. This is a fantastic all-in-one breakfast that doesn’t take much effort to create. A chia pudding relies on the way that chia seeds absorb liquid and become gelatinous.

This means that you end up with a pudding-like texture without needing any thickener at all. You can use almost any type of liquid, although a plant-based milk tends to be the most common choice. You can also include extra ingredients for flavoring, like cocoa powder. 

Alkaline Pancakes

A black dish with buckwheat pancakes and berries

Regular pancakes aren’t a great choice on an alkaline diet, but there are alkaline pancake recipes. These use a different combination of ingredients, so the result is much more alkaline than pancakes normally are. 

For example, this recipe from Ty’s Conscious Kitchen relies on spelt flour as a key ingredient, along with blueberries and nut milk. Indeed, spelt often turns up in alkaline pancake recipes. Some may take advantage of seeds as well. 

Spelt isn’t strongly alkalizing, but this isn’t a major problem. You can easily get strongly alkalizing foods elsewhere in your diet or even as another part of your breakfast. 

You can also use buckwheat to make alkaline pancakes. Despite the name, this pseudocereal isn’t a type of wheat and doesn’t contain gluten. 

Grain Free Granola

A glass jar with a lid containing homemade granola, with a parfait in the background

Here’s an alkaline version of another breakfast classic. The idea here is that you’re making a version of granola that doesn’t rely on grains at all. Doing so works well, as the grains are the main acidic aspect of granola. Cutting these out also means that your granola can be lower in carbs and perhaps richer in nutrients. 

Making granola without grains isn’t too difficult, as you can largely rely on nuts and seeds. However, you’ll need to be a little more careful when trying to make an alkaline version of granola, as many nuts and seeds aren’t alkaline. 

Pumpkin seeds, flax seeds, sesame seeds, and almonds can all be added into the mix, but steer clear of most other nuts and seeds. You can use fresh coconut too. Just be wary of dried coconut, as this can be acid-forming. 

Smoothies 

Two glasses of a green alkaline smoothie on a white plate with greens in the background

It’s easy to see why smoothies are still so popular as a breakfast food. They’re fast, easy to prepare, and taste good too. And, when made well, smoothies can be very good for you. 

The trick is to choose your smoothie ingredients carefully. You’re looking for healthy ingredients that will provide plenty of nutrients, but aren’t high in sugar. It’s particularly important to think about the sugar content of your smoothie. Otherwise, you risk ending up with a very sweet smoothie that is as bad for you as a candy bar. 

You’ll also need to be looking for alkaline smoothie ingredients. Doing so will often leave you with a green smoothie, one that heavily relies on leafy greens as a key ingredient. But, don’t worry, green smoothies can taste very good. 

If you want to make your own alkaline smoothie, the following recipes are a great place to begin:

  • Alkaline Electric Peach Berry Smoothie from Ty’s Conscious Kitchen
  • Minty Alkaline Kiwi Green Smoothie from Berry Sweet Life
  • Alkaline Blueberry Banana Smoothie from The Chic Life
  • Alkaline Green Smoothie from Foodaciously
  • Lime Alkaline Glowing Green Smoothie from The Blender Girl

An Alkaline Soup

A white bowl of miso soup with tofu and a spoon

While soup isn’t a traditional breakfast food for many of us, some people do regularly eat soup for breakfast. And, why not? Soup tends to be warming and delicious. 

You could make a light soup to complement the other parts of your breakfast or you could make a heartier soup instead. Either way, you’re starting your day well.

The trick is to rely on alkaline ingredients in your soups. To do so, you’ll need to focus on vegetables, as meat tends to be acidic. Soy-based products can be used too, such as miso and tofu.

In fact, miso soup is a good alkaline choice and an easy soup to enjoy for breakfast (it’s a common part of Japanese breakfast). While the soup is high in sodium, it is also probiotic rich and the benefits of the soup far outweigh any potential issues. 

Quinoa Porridge 

A white bowl with quinoa porridge and

Oatmeal is a classic breakfast choice. It’s also highly acidic, so you can’t eat it regularly on an alkaline diet. Quinoa, on the other hand, has a mild alkalizing effect.

This little seed also happens to be very good for you. It’s powerful as a source of protein and other important nutrients. 

While quinoa isn’t normally served as a porridge, doing so isn’t too difficult. It helps if you can rely on quinoa flakes, as these have a more suitable shape than the more common round quinoa seeds that you find. 

You can use plant-based milk, a little coconut oil, and some cinnamon to provide you with the texture and flavor profile that you’re looking for. Adding chia seeds can be useful too. These will absorb some of the liquid and help to bind your porridge together.

Buckwheat Porridge

A red brown bowl containing buckwheat porridge with mushrooms, next to a bowl of buckwheat groats

Buckwheat is a pseudocereal like quinoa and it’s another option for making an oatmeal-like breakfast. To do so, you’d rely on buckwheat groats.  These are hulled buckwheat seeds. They’ve often been toasted, which gives them a delicious flavor. 

The other ingredients to use are similar to making porridge from quinoa. The main difference is that it’s best to soak the buckwheat groats overnight before you make the porridge. You don’t need to take this step with quinoa. 

Baked Beans

Three wooden bowls containing baked beans

A classic English breakfast is baked beans on toast, where the beans come from a can and are in a tomato-based sauce. This is a surprisingly powerful choice for breakfast, as you’re getting something hearty that will keep you full for hours. 

It’s much healthier to make baked beans yourself using lima beans and tomato paste. We’re highlighting lima beans, as these are one of the few types of beans that are alkaline forming in the body. Most other beans are acid forming instead, so they can’t be part of your alkaline diet. 

Mushrooms

A black cast iron frypan containing cooked mushrooms

Mushrooms tend to be alkaline. They’re also common as a breakfast food anyway, so they’re a logical addition to this list. There are plenty of delicious ways to cook mushrooms, such as cutting them up and frying them, baking the mushrooms, or stuffing them. 

You can also combine mushrooms with other alkaline ingredients, such as quinoa. For example, you could create a type of risotto using quinoa, mushrooms, and other vegetables. This meal could easily be alkaline if you choose your ingredients carefully. 

Spelt Bread

A sliced loaf of spelt bread

Bread made with wheat tends to be acidic, but some less common flours will provide you with an alkaline product instead. Spelt is one of the most common examples. and many recipes for alkaline bread use spelt flour as a key ingredient. 

Spelt itself is considered an ancient grain. It is strongly related to wheat , which means that it does contain gluten. Even so, spelt tends to be seen as healthier than wheat, as it contains more nutrients and has additional fiber. 

Making spelt bread (or another type of alkaline bread) means that you can still enjoy some of your breakfast favorites, even when you are avoiding acidic foods. 

Spelt Wraps

A wooden bowl and spoon containing spelt

You can also buy or make wraps that use spelt rather than wheat. This allows you to create breakfast or brunch burritos. These will mostly need to be meat free to keep them alkaline, but you can still rely on tofu as a key ingredient. 

Fried mushrooms can be a good addition to the wraps too, along with leafy greens. You might even add some nutritional yeast to create a cheesy flavor in the meal.

Sprouted Bread

A loaf of sprouted bread that has been sliced

Seeds, legumes, and grains tend to be acidic or acid-forming. We’ve mentioned a few exceptions to that pattern already, but there’s also one other area to talk about – sprouting. Most of the time, seeds, legumes, and grains move from being acidic to alkaline once they have been sprouted.

This means that sprouted bread is a more alkaline choice than other types of bread. This includes sprouted bread that you purchase from the store, like Ezekial bread, and sprouted bread that you make yourself.

Even so, the alkalinity versus acidity of the bread is likely to vary depending on the recipe that is used and the amount of sprouted grains versus unsprouted grains. If the product uses mostly unsprouted grains and only a few sprouted grains, for example, the bread may end up more acidic than alkaline.

Grapefruit Juice

A glass of grapefruit juice on a wooden table, next to a juicer and some grapefruit halves

While citrus fruits are generally acidic, they’re also alkaline forming. This means they have alkaline effects in your body, where it matters the most.

As a result, many citrus juices will work well for breakfast, including grapefruit juice. This also means that you can have grapefruit halves as part of your breakfast.

Breakfast Salad

A large bowl containing plenty of alkaline ingredients, such as avocado, tomatoes, broccoli, and more

Salads don’t need to be boring. You can easily construct delicious and nutritious salads, ones that look good on the plate too.

Plenty of the alkaline ingredients we’ve talked about on this list could form part of an alkaline breakfast salad. Potential ingredients include avocados, leafy greens, tomatoes, and mushrooms.

You could also add cooked quinoa. Doing so bumps up the protein content of your salad and makes it much more interesting as well  Adding an egg helps as well, as the egg increases the protein content and makes the meal more filling. 

Quinoa Breakfast Bowl

A dark bowl containing an alkaline quinoa salad with mushrooms, spinach, and broccoli

Speaking of quinoa, what about making a quinoa breakfast bowl? This type of dish traditionally uses a grain or pseudograin as the base, then stacks other ingredients on top. Many of the ingredients we’ve already talked about work well here, including avocado and mushrooms.

Don’t forget about tofu either. Soybeans are alkaline forming, as are many soybean-related products (according to most references, at least). Tofu is also powerful because it’s an easy source of protein. That’s helpful, given that alkaline foods are often low in protein.

Alkaline French Toast

A small plate with a stack of alkaline French toast on a wooden table

What about French toast on an alkaline diet? Doing so is surprisingly easy. You just need to swap out regular bread for alkaline bread.

Spelt bread is an easy choice here, although there are plenty of other options as well.

Scrambled Tofu

A large bowl containing scrambled tofu with vegetables

Scrambled tofu is sometimes used as an alternative to scrambled eggs. While the flavor and texture aren’t quite the same, the two dishes are surprisingly close, especially if you choose a good recipe.

Scrambled tofu is perfect for vegans. It’s also an excellent choice if you’re not comfortable including eggs on your alkaline diet. After all, their acidity/alkalinity is more complicated than most other foods.

Avocados On Alkaline Bread

An avocado that has been cut in half, next to two pieces of mushroom toast

Avocado toast continues to be a popular breakfast choice. You don’t need to miss out when following an alkaline diet. Simply swap your regular bread for alkaline bread and you’re good to go.

This one is worth trying, as avocados provide important nutrients and plenty of healthy fats. They’re also delicious, which makes them even more perfect for breakfast.

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  1. Candy TinkhAm

    January 10, 2021 at 7:23 am

    Appreciate the good information!

    Reply
  2. Liz

    March 8, 2021 at 5:06 pm

    Eggs are very acid forming

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    • Food For Net

      March 11, 2021 at 5:06 am

      They are not “very” acid forming. They have some acidity, but there’s nuance, as outlined in the description.

      Reply
  3. Ever Marie James

    April 25, 2021 at 9:49 am

    I am 76 years old and retired. I have recently been diagnosed with an over active bladder. My doctor gave me a long list of foods that I can no longer eat. My favorite meal of the day is breakfast. I have not found a favorable alkaline breakfast. I really need assistance with finding delicious alkaline meals.

    Reply
    • E.L.F.

      April 28, 2021 at 8:17 am

      Go on http://www.amazon.com and buy an alkaline cookbook! It’s a lifesaver! I bought 2!

      Reply
      • Le

        June 17, 2021 at 1:36 pm

        I bought “The PH Miracle” which is mostly learning not recipes. Which ones did you get?

        Reply
    • Kristina

      July 19, 2022 at 3:40 am

      I used to have an OAB. I removed all processed food and only eat while food and my symptoms went away. Good luck.

      Reply
  4. Carla Martins

    November 24, 2021 at 12:06 am

    I dont understand why you remove oats and add eggs????!!!!

    Reply
  5. Patricia

    June 23, 2022 at 5:03 am

    Oats are acidifying.

    Reply
  6. Tusiya

    July 28, 2022 at 1:02 am

    Hi
    I SOOOOO appreciate your wonderful tutorial on alkalising breakfast foods! You have a solid knowledge base without any faddish and false expectations for alkaline dietary choices, like altering blood ph! I find the PRAL scores for foods to be the way to choose alkaline, and/ not versus acid forming foods. I am on uva ursi for uti and for duration of my course I need to alkalise my urine ph. And I am on HUGE learning curve which you have helped immensely! Thank you!
    Shalom to us only in Christ Yeshua returning soon to reign over the world government from Jerusalem.

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