What foods do not contain iodine?
Breads, cereals, and grains
- Plain cooked barley, oats, millet, buckwheat, bulgur wheat, and quinoa.
- Cereals, pastas, and rice made without ingredients that contain a lot of iodine.
- Homemade bread made without iodized salt.
- Plain unsalted rice cakes.
- Plain unsalted matzo.
- Plain unsalted popcorn.
What foods have radioactive iodine?
You shouldn’t eat these foods as they have high levels of iodine:
- fish, seafood, seaweed, kelp and laverbread.
- raw green vegetables such as spinach and broccoli.
- cakes and biscuits made with eggs or butter.
- milk chocolate and white chocolate.
What can you eat on radioactive iodine treatment?
For 2 hours before and after your dose, do not eat any solid foods or drink anything but water. You may have breakfast before you come to the hospital, if it is more than 2 hours before your I131 dose. Water is OK to drink. We encourage you to drink plenty of water to help flush the radiation from your body.
What can I eat for breakfast on a low iodine diet?
Eggs: egg whites only. Cereals and grains: oatmeal (excluding prepackaged or instant oatmeal), rice, quinoa, couscous, cornmeal, bulgur, buckwheat, plain wheat pasta or other salt-free pasta varieties. Crackers: salt-free varieties of matzo crackers, unsalted rice cakes, unsalted rice crackers.
Is potato rich in iodine?
Potatoes are a great source of iodine that is very commonly found and is cheap. When baked or cooked with its skin on a potato can supply you with 60/mcg of iodine. Any type of potatoes are fine but it is best to consume organic potatoes as they are a better source of iodine.
Is there iodine in chicken?
Other good sources include fish and other seafood, as well as eggs (see Table 2). Iodine is also present in human breast milk [2,5] and infant formulas . Dairy products contain iodine….Food.
|Food||Micrograms (mcg) per serving||Percent DV*|
|Chicken breast, roasted, 3 ounces||2||1|
|Apple juice, 1 cup||1||1|