Food and Foodstuff Products Ph Values
Product |
Approximate Ph |
Abalone |
6.1 – 6.5 |
Aloe Vera |
6.1 |
Apples |
3.3 – 3.9 |
Apricots |
3.3 – 4.8 |
Apricots, canned |
3.4 – 3.8 |
Apricots, nectar |
3.8 |
Artichokes |
5.5 – 6.0 |
Asparagus |
6.0 – 6.7 |
Avocados |
6.3 – 6.6 |
Bananas |
4.5 – 5.2 |
Bass, sea, broiled |
6.6 – 6.8 |
Beans |
5.6 – 6.5 |
Beers |
4.0 – 5.0 |
Beets |
5.3 – 6.6 |
Blackberries |
3.9 – 4.5 |
Blueberries |
3.1 – 3.4 |
Bread, white |
5.0 – 6.2 |
Beets |
4.9 – 5.5 |
Broccoli, cooked |
5.3 |
Butter |
6.1 – 6.4 |
Buttermilk |
4.4 – 4.8 |
Cabbage |
5.2 – 5.4 |
Cactus |
4.7 |
Calamary (squid) |
5.8 |
Capers |
6.0 |
Carp |
6.0 |
Carrots |
5.9 – 6.3 |
Celery |
5.7 – 6.0 |
Cheese |
4.8 – 6.4 |
Cherries |
3.2 – 4.5 |
Chili sauce |
2.8 – 3.7 |
Cider |
2.9 – 3.3 |
Coconut |
5.5 – 7.8 |
Coconut milk |
6.1 – 7.0 |
Cod liver |
6.2 |
Corn |
5.9 – 7.3 |
Crab meat |
6.5 – 7.0 |
Crackers |
6.5 – 8.5 |
Cranberry juice |
2.3 – 2.5 |
Curry sauce |
6.0 |
Cuttlefish |
6.3 |
Dates |
6.5 – 8.5 |
Eell |
6.2 |
Eggs, fresh |
7.6 – 8.0 |
Flour, wheat |
5.5 – 6.5 |
Fruit cocktail |
3.6 – 4.0 |
Gooseberries |
2.8 – 3.1 |
Grapefruit |
3.0 – 3.7 |
Grapes |
3.5 – 4.5 |
Herring |
6.1 |
Hominy (lye) |
6.8 – 8.0 |
Horseradish |
5.4 |
Jams, fruit |
3.5 – 4.0 |
Jellies, fruit |
2.8 – 3.4 |
Ketchup |
3.9 |
Leeks |
5.5 – 6.2 |
Lemons |
2.2 – 2.4 |
Lemon juice |
2.0 – 2.6 |
Limes |
1.8 – 2.0 |
Lime juice |
2.0 – 2.4 |
Mangos |
5.8 – 6.0 |
Maple syrup |
4.6 – 5.5 |
Melons |
6.0 – 6.7 |
Milk |
6.4 – 6.8 |
Molasses |
4.9 – 5.4 |
Mustard |
3.5 – 6.0 |
Nectarines |
3.9 – 4.2 |
Olives, green, fermented |
3.6 – 3.6 |
Olives, black |
6.0 – 7.0 |
Oranges |
3.0 – 4.0 |
Oysters |
5.7 – 6.2 |
Peaches |
3.4 – 4.1 |
Peanut butter |
6.3 |
Pears |
3.6 – 4.0 |
Peas |
5.8 – 6.4 |
Pickles, sour |
3.0 – 3.4 |
Pickles, dill |
3.2 – 3.6 |
Pimento |
4.6 – 5.2 |
Plums |
2.8 – 3.0 |
Potatoes |
5.6 – 6.0 |
Pumpkin |
4.8 – 5.2 |
Raspberries |
3.2 – 3.6 |
Rhubarb |
3.1 – 3.2 |
Salmon |
6.1 – 6.3 |
Sardines |
5.7 – 6.6 |
Sauerkraut |
3.4 – 3.6 |
Sherry |
3.4 |
Shrimp |
6.8 – 7.0 |
Soft drinks |
2.0 – 4.0 |
Soyabean milk |
7.0 |
Soya sauce |
4.4 – 5.4 |
Spinach |
5.5 – 6.8 |
Squash |
5.0 – 5.4 |
Strawberries |
3.0 – 3.9 |
Strawberry jam |
3.0 – 3.4 |
Sweet potatoes |
5.3 – 5.6 |
Tea |
7.2 |
Tomatoes |
4.3 – 4.9 |
Tomatoes, juice |
4.1 – 4.6 |
Tomatoes, puree |
4.3 – 4.5 |
Tuna |
5.9 -6.1 |
Turnips |
5.2 – 5.6 |
Vegetable juice |
3.9 – 4.3 |
Vinegar |
2.4 – 3.4 |
Vinegar, cider |
3.1 |
Water, drinking |
6.5 – 8.0 |
Watermelon |
5.2 – 5.6 |
Wines |
2.8 – 3.8 |
Yams cooked |
5.5 – 6.8 |
Note that there exists a considerable variation between varieties, condition of growing and processing methods of the products.