Those with type A blood should choose fruit, vegetables, tofu, seafood, turkey, and whole grains but avoid meat. For weight loss, seafood, vegetables, pineapple, olive oil, and soy are best; dairy, wheat, corn, and kidney beans should be avoided.
BENEFICIAL. BENEFICIAL or MEDICINE grains and starches for your type are mainly amaranth, buckwheat, soba noodles, oat, oat/bran, rice, rice cakes, rye, soy; flour: artichoke, rice, rye, soy, oat; breads: sprouted wheat, essene, 100-percent rye.
Grains. According to the Blood Type diet guidelines, the most beneficial grains for people with type A blood include sprouted wheat, cereals like kasha, buckwheat or amaranth and rice, oat or rye flour. All types of white or wheat flour should be avoided, along with semolina pasta.
ALLOWED or NEUTRAL dairy products for your type are mainly ghee, kefir, goat milk, sour cream, yogurt; cheeses: farmer, feta, mozzarella, paneer, quark, ricotta; eggs: duck, chicken, goose, quail. Soya milk and cheese are excellent dairy substitutes for type A's.
The blood type concept not only allowed gluten for these blood types but stated it was beneficial for blood types B and AB while allowing occasional gluten for types A and even O.
Blood Group: A
You should be largely vegetarian and follow a high carbohydrate, low fat diet. They should eat lots of rice, oats, rye, pasta, pumpkin, seeds, peanuts, apricots, figs, lemons, raisins, buckwheat, wheat, soy foods, walnuts, garlic, mushroom, pine apple, blueberries, ginger and green tea.
Coffee is slightly acidic (pH 5.0–5.1)—type A's need to increase stomach acid since they tend to have very low levels—and can have a stimulating effect because of its caffeine content. Drinking one to three cups per day has some health benefits.
Type A are very sensitive to the lectins in potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, cabbage, tomatoes and peppers. They aggravate the delicate stomach of Type A.
Eating seafood high in DHA and EPA omega-3 fatty acids—mackerel, salmon (wild has more omega-3s than farmed), sardines, sturgeon, lake trout, tuna—two to three times weekly is recommended.
The answer is yes! Dark chocolate can offer many health benefits to people with blood type A. Knowing your blood type is essential for understanding how your body reacts to food.
Furthermore, avocado is high in fat. People with blood type O are recommended to keep it away from their diet. People going on the blood type O diet should also keep away from certain types of meat and seafood, and most dairy products. This is because they include hard to digest animal protein.
For type A, this sugar is N-acetylgalactosamine, and for type B, it is the slightly smaller sugar galactose. This small difference, however, has a critical effect.
People with blood type A will be able to easily digest yogurt, kefir, goat milk products, and select cheeses (such as feta and goat cheese.) When it comes to healthy fats, most nuts are okay for blood type A.
Blood type A must consume soy proteins, grains and vegetables frequently during the day. Especially, eat fruits that are alkaline based like apple, dates, berries, peaches etc. Type A should strictly avoid papayas, mangoes and oranges as it will affect the digestive system.
In terms of supplements, Vitamin B12 is important especially since the Type A diet is low on animal proteins. As mentioned before, Vitamin C as well as E is important in protecting against stomach cancer and heart disease. Calcium, iron and small amount of zinc are helpful supplements.
Type A blood: A meat-free diet based on fruits and vegetables, beans and legumes, and whole grains -- ideally, organic and fresh, because D'Adamo says people with type A blood have a sensitive immune system. Type B blood: Avoid corn, wheat, buckwheat, lentils, tomatoes, peanuts, and sesame seeds.
Broccoli (also broccoli leaves and sprouts) is highly recommended for type A's. Broccoli is high-fiber, low-calorie, and high in sulforophane, a sulfur-containing compound present in cruciferous vegetables.
Type A: Tomatoes, eggplant (aubergine), lima beans and garbanzo beans (chickpeas) Type B: Soy, lentils, chicken and corn. Type AB: Bell peppers, corn, chicken and Fava beans (broad beans)
Salmon is beneficial for Blood Types A, AB and B and neutral for Type O, making it one of the most universally healthy seafood options for Blood Type Diet followers. Wild-caught salmon is a great source of nutrients, including Omega-3 fatty acids; a kind of nutrient that many people are deficient in.
Subsititute foods for avoids. There are very good substitutions for the foods you should avoid. For Type A and O, who should avoid all dairy products, there are many substitutes for cow's milk- Silk, goat's milk, rice milk, and almond milk that are good for all blood types.
Beneficial grains and cereals for blood type B
Avoid white bread, wheat flour and bran, corn flour, rye, barley, buckwheat, amaranth, wheat germ and cornflakes. Corn and buckwheat lead to weight gain when consumed by blood type Bs.