Peas and Detoxification
Peas and Detoxification
Peas can be classed both as a vegetable and a legume. Peas contain many nutrients including: vitamins K, C, A and the B complex - B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), B6 (pyridoxine), folic acid. The minerals: manganese, magnesium, iron, zinc and potassium. Peas are also high in fibre (like their cousins in the legume family) but are more easily digested and non-gassy than other legumes. Peas also like other legumes contain the lipotrophic nutrients: betaine, choline, inositol and methionine.
Menu Plan
Day 1
Breakfast: grapefruit, bananas and strawberries plus a handful of pumpkin and sunflower seeds
Lunch Recipe: Cajun Pea and Potato Salad with Spring Onion Dressing
Dinner Recipe: Pea and Aubergine Curry
Snacks: fruit, nuts, seeds and sugar free fruit bars
Day 2
Breakfast: large slice of melon, some grapes, some dried dates, figs or prunes
Lunch Recipe: Clear Pea and Vegetable Soup with Brown Rice
Dinner Recipe: Thai Pea, Sweetcorn and Shiitake Mushroom Stir Fry with Steamed Fish
Snacks: crunchy salad - choose from carrot, celery, peppers, cashews and peanuts (unsalted)
Day 3
Breakfast: fruit salad - use apple, pear, orange, banana, grapes, raisins, dried apricots
Lunch Recipe: Japanese Miso-style Pea and Tofu Soup with Chives
Dinner Recipe: Vegetable Tagine with Peas, Squash, Carrots and Apricots
Snacks: orange juice whizzed in a blender with a banana. Dried/fresh fruit
Day 4
Breakfast: slice melon, banana, kiwi.
Lunch Recipe:Pea and Roasted Garlic Soup
Dinner Recipe: Pea, Tuna and White Bean Salad with Lemon Dressing
Snacks: half a fresh pepper, filled with grated carrot and sweetcorn
Day 5
Breakfast: banana, strawberry and grapes whizzed together to make a drink, a handful of nuts and seeds
Lunch Recipe: Pea and Brussels Sprouts with Hazelnuts and Orange
Dinner Recipe: Pea and Seafood Brown Rice Paella with Saffron
Snacks: plums, pears, peaches, banana, dried apricots, dates, raisins
What to Drink
Drink between two and three pints of liquid a day, choosing from filtered or mineral water, unsweetened fruit juices (dilute by half with water), organic vegetable juices, herb (peppermint, fennel, nettle) and fruit teas or dandelion root coffee (not the instant type). Don't drink, coffee tea or alcohol.
You may not eat
Dairy products (butter, milk, cheese, etc) anything containing dairy.
Wheat (bread, cereals, biscuits, cakes) anything containing wheat.
Red meat, smoked meats (bacon, ham) and smoked fish.
Fried foods.
Salt, artificial additives, colourings, preservatives such as sulphur dried fruits (this type of sulphur is not beneficial), instant/processed foods.
Sugar, sweets, chocolates, soft drinks.
Please check all labels carefully
Chemicals to avoid
Paint fumes
Exhaust fumes
Chemical ‘air fresheners’
Stress hormones – stress increases nutrient loss and limits blood flow so reducing the body’s detoxification ability. A rise in stress hormones will put an extra load on the liver as they need to be detoxified and prepared for elimination
