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Candida Diet
Steamed Vegetables 3–5 Days
By eliminating grains, sugars, fruits, starches and alcohol from your diet for three to five days, you can make great headway in your fight against candida overgrowth.
Keep away from any starchy vegetables like carrots, radishes, beets, sweet potatoes and white potatoes, which may contribute to sugar levels and feed the candida. 

 Drink plenty of pure water, a minimum of 72 ounces per day, to help flush the candida.
Once you’re done with the cleansing stage, you can then move on to an antifungal diet  — it helps your body get rid of candida for good! 


Remove the Problem Foods
The top offenders include sugar, white flour, yeast and alcohol.  
Avoiding sugar in all of its various forms is truly key to fighting candida. The candida yeast cells need sugar to build their cell walls, expand their colonies and switch into their more virulent, fungal form. If you need some help, here’s how to kick your sugar addiction.
Your diet should be centered on vegetables, high-quality protein foods, and gluten-free grains like brown rice and millet. 

How long do I need to eat like this? 
It will take anywhere from a few weeks to several months. It really depends on 
  • how strictly you follow this diet
  • the intake and effectiveness of probiotics and antifungals
  • the severity of your candida

  Reintroducing Off-Limit Foods
Once you’re free of your candida symptoms and the candida itself, then what? As I’m sure you guessed, going back to your old habits and ways of eating will likely just bring the candida back all over again. However, you can gradually reintroduce certain foods into your new candida diet.
Low-sugar fruits like green apples are a great example of a smart choice. If the reintroduced foods don’t cause flare-ups of candida symptoms, you can move on to reintroducing more foods that you have been avoiding. I recommend doing this reintroduction slowly and one item at a time.
Here are some of the foods you should eat on the candida diet.

Candida Diet Foods to Eat & Avoid - Dr.Axe

8. Unsweetened Cranberry Juice
Cranberry juice, helps to correct the pH levels, helping to prevent the overgrowth of fungi like candida. (8)
9. Cultured Dairy
Preferably goat milk kefir, for healthy probiotic foods can effectively kill the candida in your system and increase your healthy flora. (9)
10. Spices like Turmeric & Cinnamon
Turmeric contains an active component called curcumin that has been shown to completely inhibit the growth of Candida Albicans (as well as lots of other fungal strains). (10) Cinnamon can heal oral thrush because studies have shown that people who supplement with cinnamon generally suffer from less candida overgrowth than those who don’t.
11. Cooked Vegetables
Non-starchy, cooked vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower and asparagus provide valuable nutrients that fight candida. (11)
12. Organic Meat
Protein plays a key role in candida. If you get your protein from factory farmed meats, you could actually feed candida, while foods high in healthy fats and protein protect against candida. (12) That’s why it’s so important to consume only organic, free-range meat.
13. Bone Broth
Bone broth benefits so many different aspects of our health, and you can add treating candida to the list. In fact it’s one of the best food sources to destroy candida due to its positive effects on gut health.
14. Pau D’arco Tea
Pau d’arco tea is probably the No. 1 thing to add to your candida diet. It helps the body fight candida the natural way. That’s because it has antifungal compounds like lapachol, which has been shown to combat candida. (13)

Foods to Avoid on the Candida Diet

Here are the foods to avoid on the candida diet. (14)
1. Sugar & Sugar Alternatives
These sweet items feed yeast, so you should avoid them at all costs.
2. Fruit & Fruit Juice
Even though fruit is generally healthy, it’s high in sugar and can make candida worse.
3. Alcohol
Most alcohol contains yeast so it’s not surprising that it produces more of it when consumed and should be avoided.
4. Grains
Grains break down into sugar and can feed candida, yeast and bad bacteria.
5. Vinegar
All types of vinegar should be avoided with candida overgrowth, except for apple cider vinegar. Apple cider vinegar is the only vinegar that provides an alkalizing benefit for the body and actually causes candida to die.
6. Peanuts
Peanuts can often carry mold, which only encourages the growth of candida. Plus, the peanut allergy is one of the most common food allergies on the planet, providing another reason to avoid peanuts.
7. Dairy
Unless it’s fermented, you ideally want to avoid dairy at least in the early stages of your cleansing. Milk contains lactose, which is a sugar.
8. Food Intolerances
Some yeast infections are due to food allergies. Try to avoid foods that cause negative reactions of any kind. If you think you have a food allergy or sensitivity, try an elimination diet to figure out what foods are causing intolerances.
Other foods to avoid include:
  • Dried Fruits
  • Bananas
  • Ice Drinks

Best Essential Oils for Candida

Some of the best oils to fight candida are:
These five all help to kill a variety of parasites and fungi, including candida, in the body. Lavender oil also inhibits the growth of candida and is effective at preventing the spread of the infection. (15, 16)
By mixing a couple of drops of clove oil or lavender oil with coconut oil during your cleanse, you can help to kill off the offending candida. However, since these essential oils are powerful, they should only be taken internally for 10 days or less. For oral thrush, you can use three drops of clove oil with one tablespoon of coconut oil and swish the mixture in your mouth for 20 minutes. This oil pulling is excellent for killing candida and overall detoxification of the body.

Top 5 Candida Supplements

  1. Probiotics (50 billion units daily): Will give your body healthy bacteria, which can help reduce the presence of yeast.
  2. Oregano oil (2 drops 3 times daily for 7 days then stop): Oregano oil is naturally antibacterial and antifungal.
  3. Garlic (2 caps or cloves daily): Helps fight fungal infections and boost the immune system.
  4. Vitamin C (1,000 milligrams, 3 time daily): Boosts immune function and helps fight off infections.
  5. Grapefruit seed extract (200 milligrams, 2–3 times per day): This herb has specific properties to fight candida.
In addition, you can use the following herbs to treat candida:
A 2003 study out of Israel proved that olive leaf extracts have an antimicrobial effect against bacteria and fungi. Olive leaf extracts killed almost all bacteria tested, including dermatophytes (causing infections on the skin, hair and nails), candida albicans (an agent of oral and genital infections) and Escherichia coli cells (bacteria found in the lower intestine). (17)