Foods to limit or avoid for breast cancer
Click on any food for information on how it affects breast cancer risk and survival
Beverages
- Alcohol
- Beer
- Coffee*
- Essiac™ tea
- Reishi tea*
- Sage tea
- Wine
- Yerba maté
Spices & herbs
- Lavender
- Meadow saffron
- Sage
- Salt
- Wild ginger
Condiments & sauces
- Gravy
- Guacamole
- Kimchi
- Pesto sauce
- Pickled papaya
- Salted shrimp paste
- Soybean paste
Vegetables
- Avocados
- Fermented vegetables
- Fried potatoes
- Green papaya
Beans
- Soy protein isolate
Oils & fats
- Corn oil
- Lard
- Mustard oil
- Partially-hydrogenated oil
- Safflower oil
- Sesame oil*
- Soybean oil
- Sunflower oil
Nuts & seeds
- Bitter almonds
- Papaya seeds
- Sesame seeds*
Sweets & desserts
- Brown rice syrup
- Persipan
- Red bean paste
- Sugar
* For some women