Dietary list for iodine restricted preparatory diet
Group
Water
Salt
Bread
Butter, margarine, oil
For use on bread: cheese
For use on bread: cold
cuts/meats
Sweet spreads
Allowed
Mineral water for the preparation of tea, coffee,
broth, and soup and the boiling of pasta and rice.
Non iodized kitchen and table salt
Homemade bread using non-iodised salt or
homemade bread using a readymade bread mix.
Low-sodium bread.
Packaged biscuits, crackers, Swedish crisp bread,
gingerbread, matzos and rice cakes provided they do
not contain iodised salt.
All types of salted and unsalted butter, margarine
and oils.
Dutch cheeses. One slice of cheese per day at most
or one slice of bread with cheese spread.
At most 2 slices of cold cuts per day. All types of cold
cuts or meats, both from the butcher or prepackaged with the exception of restricted products.
All types of jam, honey, syrup, and apple or pear
syrup.
Eggs
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Beverages
Coffee and tea made with mineral water.
All soft drinks including diet soft drink, fruit
concentrate diluted with mineral water.
Beer, at most 2 glasses per day.
At most two portions per day of the following types:
strawberries, apricots, apples, blackberries, lemons,
grapes, raspberries, grapefruit, tangerines, cherries,
gooseberries, mangoes, melons, pears, peaches,
plums, oranges.
At most 1 glass of milk or butter milk or one bowl of
yoghurt, custard, cottage cheese, fromage frais,
porridge per day.
Condensed milk.
Homemade broth or soup using mineral water and
the allowed vegetables, meat, herbs and spices and
non-iodised salt.
At most 100 grams of meat (raw weight) per day. All
types of pork, beef, veal, lamb, chicken and horse
meat, either fresh, packaged and/or seasoned, with
the exception of liver or products containing liver.
As a substitute for meat at most 100 grams. All types
based on soy, cereals, rice, allowed vegetables and
potatoes, tofu, tempeh.
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Beverages (alcoholic)
Fruit and fruit juice
Milk and dairy products
Broth, soup
Meat
Meat substitutes
(vegetarian products)
Fish, fish products,
shellfish, seaweed and
algae.
Gravy and sauces
Homemade gravy using mineral water, homemade
sauces using mineral water and the allowed
vegetables, meat, herbs, spices, non-iodised salt and
other allowed items.
Restricted
Tap water for drinking
Sea salt, dietary salt
Bread from a bakery or factory (white,
brown, wholemeal, rye bread, raisin
bread or rolls)
Unpackaged baked good including
biscuits, cake or pastry.
--Foreign cheeses
All types of meats containing liver such
as liver pâté, liverwurst, liver paste.
Peanut butter, chocolate sprinkles,
chocolate or hazelnut spread.
Sweet spreads containing red dye E127.
Eggs and products containing eggs
such as pastry, cakes, egg salad,
omelette, eggnog, mayonnaise.
Fruit concentrate containing the red
dye E-127
All other alcoholic drinks
All other types of fruit
Coffee creamer.
All other types of brothand soup.
Liver and products containing liver
All other types
All types
All other types
Vegetables
Raw vegetables
Pulses
Potatoes, rice, pasta
Health food products
At most 3 vegetable spoons. Only the following
products are allowed, either fresh, frozen or tinned:
eggplant, beets, celery, cauliflower, Chinese
cabbage, courgette, peas, lettuce, celeriac, garlic,
cucumber, turnips, kohlrabi, corn, horseradish,
peppers, parsnip, pumpkin, leeks, rhubarb, red
cabbage, green beans, tomatoes, broad beans,
onions, cabbage, sauerkraut.
Products can be cooked in tap water.
Only the allowed types of vegetables
Brown beans and soy beans
Cooked, roast or (deep)fried potatoes.
Homemade mashed potatoes using non-iodised salt.
Potatoes can be cooked in tap water
Rice and pasta.
Cook rice and pasta in mineral water
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Snacks
Factory-made biscuits (packaged, not containing
eggs), raisins, hazelnuts, crisps, chewing gum.
Various
Sugar.
All fresh and dried herbs, spices and spice mixes,
meat seasonings, aromatics.
Garlic, vinegar, mustard, soy sauce, ketchup, tomato
puree.
Potato flour, cornstarch, flour.
A sauce made from the cooking liquid.
All types of creamed vegetables and
other vegetables.
--All other types
Wholegrain pasta, brown rice.
Health food products can contain sea
salt, algae and seaweed. Carefully read
the label.
Fishmeal, shrimp crackers, shrimp
paste, tahini.
Cakes and other types of pastries
containing eggs, peanuts, cashew nuts,
walnuts, beer nuts, prawn crackers,
chocolate, sweets containing E-127.
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Example menu
Breakfast
 2 slices of low sodium bread or homemade bread with non-iodised salt
 or crackers, crisp bread or biscuits
 spread with margarine or butter
 1 slice of meat/cold cuts, 1 portion of sweet spreads
 tea or coffee made with mineral water
Morning snack
 tea or coffee made with mineral water
 biscuits, gingerbread
Lunch
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3 slices of low sodium bread or homemade bread using non-iodised salt.
or crackers, crisp bread or biscuits
spread with margarine or butter
1 slice of cheese, 1 slice of meat/cold cuts, 1 portion of sweet spreads
raw vegetables (optional)
tea or coffee made with mineral water
Afternoon snack
 tea or coffee made with mineral water
 biscuits
 1 portion of fruit or 1 glass of fruit juice
Dinner
 soup or broth made using mineral water(optional)
 100 g (raw weight) of meat or chicken with gravy
 at most 3 serving spoons of vegetables
 potatoes, rice, pasta or pulses
 1 bowl of yoghurt, custard, cottage cheese, fromage frais or porridge
Evening snack
 tea or coffee made with mineral water
 biscuits
 1 portion of fruit or 1 glass of fruit juice