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If you don’t eat dairy, how do you get enough calcium? You get lots of calcium from various vegetables, especially green leafy vegetables such as kale, sea weeds as well as broccoli and sesame seeds. Calcium is readily available in many foods. Better yet, these foods are alkaline producing, so the body can actually use the calcium it gets from them.
Dairy products actually do not provide sufficient calcium. The countries with the highest dairy consumption are also the ones with highest osteoporosis levels! Dairy is one of the most acidic foods on the pH scale and calcium is the number one mineral the body uses to buffer against excess acidity.
There is just never enough calcium in any dairy product to offset the acid-producing effect it has. So you actually end up losing calcium when you eat dairy products, not gaining it! Shocking, right?
Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need to drink your milk in order to get your calcium.
Here are Non Dairy Foods High in Calcium that don’t come from a cow:
Sesame seeds and seaweeds bear calcium quantities by far greater than those of all other foodstuffs, including dairy.
In 100 grams of sesame seeds (whole) the calcium content is 1,160 milligrams.
Wakame (seaweed) and hiziki (seaweed) supply more even than sesame — hiziki, 1,400 milligrams per 100 grams, and wakame, 1,300 milligrams per 100 grams.
Milk does not supply calcium as much as seaweeds, sesame seeds, onion, garlic, turnip root, turnip greens, radish, romaine lettuce, cabbage (green or red, and napa cabbage and bok choy), broccoli (and Chinese broccolis), dandelion green, collard greens, Swiss chard (and red chard), parsley, leek, celery, watercress (and other cresses), frisee, and kale.
Sesame seeds and seaweeds bear 10 times the calcium of milk. Parsley, kale, collard green, turnip green, garlic, dandelion green, and watercress bear more than twice milk’s calcium. Cabbage, chard, celery, and broccoli provide more than milk does — some nearly twice as much.
Watercress contains 270mg calcium per 100g & parsley 203mg calcium per 100g
Ref: Dr. Ragnar Berg, Dr. Henry Sherman, Dr. J. Koenig, Dr. E. Wolff, Prof. E.P. Forbes.
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