FAILSAFE elimination diet allowed foods list

REMEMBER TO CHECK ALL INGREDIENTS! If you’re not sure, avoid it. Also, keep in mind that some manufacturers are not obliged by law to disclose all ingredients under a certain percentage, so take all labelling with a grain of salt.

Call the manufacturer and ask – they will tell you what the item contains. The number is usually on the packaging.

Item
Agar Agar
Allergy Train Lollies - musk sticks, honeycomb, pear lolly pops
Amaranth & Rice pasta
Amaranth - flour, flakes, puffed, grain
Amaranth Breakfast Cereal
Anti-caking agents, bleaches, emulsifiers, mineral salts, propellants, food acids, thickening agents, sweeteners, vegetable gums, vitamins, antioxidants (not those on the avoid list)
Arrowroot
Arrowroot Flour
Ayam Instant Noodles
Bakery Yeast - when cooked in bread
Baking Powder
Baking Powder
Bamboo Shoots - tinned (Valcom)
Barley Flour
Barley pasta
Barley, Barley Bran
Bean Shoots
Bean Thread noodle
Beans - 3, 4 or 5 bean mix
Beef (fresh, not aged)
Beet red (162)
Bicarbonate of Soda (500)
Black Eye Beans - dried
Borg's Organic Puff Pastry
Borlotti Beans - dried, canned
Both McDonalds and Hungry Jacks soft serve Sundaes without topping, use a plastic cup instead of the cone.
Bread - Wholemeal or White bread, rolls or pita bread, croissants (no preservatives, additives, corn, dried fruits, honey, nuts, seeds except Poppy seeds)
Coles Sliced Bread Wholemeal / Coles Bakery Wholemeal
Coles Smart Buy White Bread
Mighty Soft White Sandwich
Sunblest Up White 25% Wholegrain Soft & Smooth
Woolworth's Bakehouse Wholemeal
Brown Rice Mochi
Brussel Sprouts
Buckwheat
Buckwheat flour
Buckwheat pasta, noodles
Buckwheat Puffs
Burghul
Butter - pure, salted, unsalted
Butter Beans - canned
Butter Puff Pastry (330, 306), Borg's Butter Puff Pastry
Butterscotch (Snow's Butterscotch, Werther's Original)
Cabbage - green, red
Calamari - fresh
Canellini Beans - dried, canned
Canola Oil Spray (check no antioxidant or sorbates)
Caramel (150a), Betacarotene (160a), Turmeric or curcumin, yellow (100), Riboflavin, lactoflavin, vitamin B2, yellow (101), Alkanet, pink (103), Chlorophyll (140), Chlorophyll-copper (141), Carbon black, vegetable carbon (153), Calcium carbonate, white (170), Titanium dioxide, white (171), Iron oxide - red, black, yellow (172), Silver (174), Tannic acid, brown (181)
Carob Powder
Cashew paste (lightly roasted)
Cashews - raw (Naytura Natural Cashew Kernels) or lightly roasted
Celery
Ceres Organic Quinoa Flakes
Chick pea flour (Besan flour)
Chick Peas - dried, tinned
Chicken - whole, pieces, skinless
Chives
Choko
Citric Acid (330)
Condensed Milk
Corn flour / Corn starch- from wheat or maize (not corn)
Cottage Cheese (fresh, not tubs, no 200-203)
Cous Cous
Crab - fresh
Cream - canned reduced fat cream
Cream - fresh, light, regular, rich
Cream - UHT
Cream Cheese
Cream of Tartar (334)
Crème Fraiche
Custard
Custard Powder
Danish Delight Vanilla Waffle Cones
De-caf coffee - instant or ground, by water filtration method
Egg Replacer
Eggs - whole
Evaporated Milk (Carnation Lite & Creamy Evaporated Milk)
Fish - fresh, white (Bream, Flathead, Ling, Perch, Snapper, Whiting)
Flour - plain, wholemeal, bleached, unbleached, self raising (wheat)
Freeze Dried Pear
Frozen Egg White and Egg White Mix
Garlic - fresh, minced (food/citric acid OK)
Gelatine
Ghee
Gin
Goat Milk
Golden Syrup
Green beans (fresh, frozen)
Gums - guar xanthan
Haricot Beans - dried
Honeycomb (check ingredients)
Ice Cream Cones
Ice-cream
Iceberg lettuce
Icing Sugar - pure
Jams - Pear and Vanilla Jam
Jersey Caramels - Famous Makers
Kamut (wheat)
Lamb
Le Rice Classic Vanilla
Leek
Lentils - red, green, dried, tinned
Lima Beans - dried, canned
Liquid Glucose
Lobster - fresh
Lupin
Malt Rye
Malted Milk
Maple Syrup
Marshmallows (white only)
Mascarpone
Milk - low fat, full cream, fresh, UHT, long life
Millet - flour, meal, flakes, puffed, hulled or unhulled
Millet Puffs
Mineral Water - plain
Mung bean sprouts
Musk, Vanilla, Vanillin
Mussels - fresh
Natural Flavouring - Caramel, Butterscotch
Natural Oysters - fresh
Nestle Milky Bar (original).
Nutelex Pulse margarine
Oat Bran
Oat Milk
Oat milk
Organic Puffed Kamut
Pancake Parlour - Buttermilk Pancake
Parsley (sprinkle, as a garnish)
Pasta (from wheat) - no colours, fillings or flavours
Pears - skin removed
Pears in Syrup
Peas - dried
Plain potato crisps
Plain Scone
Plain Toffee
Plain Toothpaste
Poppy seeds
Potato flour
Potatoes - large, dirty, peeled
Powdered Milk
Pretzel Snacks
Psyllium husks
Pure Malt Extract
Quark cheese
Quinoa - flour, flakes, puffed, grain
Quinoa pasta
Rabbit
Red Kidney Beans - dried, canned
Rice - , short, medium, long grain, aborio, white, brown, white glutinous rice, Quick cooking rice, Doongara clever rice
Rice Bran
Rice Bran Oil
Rice Bran Oil (no antioxidant or sorbates)
Rice Cream - tinned
Rice Crumbs
Rice drink/milk
Rice Flakes
Rice flour - brown, white
Rice Loaf
Rice Malt Syrup
Rice Milk
Rice Noodles, Vermicelli
Rice paper, Rice spring roll wrappers
Rice Pasta
Rice pasta, noodles, sticks, vermicelli
Rice Syrup
Ricotta
Rolled Oats
Rolled Rice
Rye flour
Rye pasta
Safflower Oil (check no antioxidant or sorbates)
Saffron (Master Foods)
Sago
Salt - iodised, sea, rock, table
Sausage Casing
Sea Scallops - fresh
Semolina
Shallots (spring onions/scallions - no bulb, same shape as leek)
Shortbread
Soda Water (no preservatives)
Sorghum Flour
Sour Cream - regular, reduced
Soy beans - dried, tinned
Soy cream cheese (no 160b, 200-203)
Soy custard ( (no 160b, 200-203)
Soy drink (no 160b, 200-203)
Soy Flour
Soy Life Vanilla Crème Yogurt
Soy milk
Soy Oil (no antioxidant or sorbates)
Soy yoghurt (no 160b, 200-203)
Soya Beans - dried, canned
Spelt (wheat)
Split peas, green & yellow (dried)
Spreadable Cream Cheese
Sugar - white, brown, castor, cane (not raw sugar)
Sunflower Oil (check no antioxidant or sorbates)
Swede
Tapioca
Tartaric acid
Tetrapak Milk
Tofu
Tofu - soft
Triticale (wheat)
Vanilla essence (Queen Natural Vanilla Extract), no preservative 202
Vanilla Pods, Vanilla Beans
Vanilla Tofu Ice-cream
Veal
Vodka
Wheat (Kamut, spelt, Triticale)
Wheat Bran
Wheat germ
Wheat noodles (Udon, Hokkien, Soba)
Wheat pasta
Whisky
White Beans - dried
Yogurt - Easiyo yoghurt starter - natural, vanilla
Yogurt - Fresh plain, natural, vanilla


Jessica Lloyd - Vulvovaginal Specialist Naturopathic Practitioner, BHSc(N)

Jessica is a degree-qualified naturopath (BHSc) specialising in vulvovaginal health and disease, based in Melbourne, Australia.

Jessica is the owner and lead naturopath of My Vagina, and is a member of the:

  • International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease (ISSVD)
  • International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health (ISSWSH)
  • National Vulvodynia Association (NVA) Australia
  • New Zealand Vulvovaginal Society (ANZVS)
  • Australian Traditional Medicine Society (ATMS)
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