Worst Foods for Your Teeth

Cavities are formed by the bacteria that are normally in your mouth… they will consume the sugar and then excrete acid… the bacteria don’t care what kind of sugar it is. for example something like a saltine cracker, or white bread, or a hamburger bun those starches are basically long chains of sugar

starchy foods tend to cling around the gum line and stick in-between teeth … I would advise you to avoid anything really sticky, gummy, chewy…extremely sweet…full of refine carbohydrates… Dried fruit is better nutritionally than candy definitely…However, the sugars are now in a more concentrated form and the dried fruit is chewier, stickier, gummier, so it sticks to the teeth more readily

You wouldn’t think ketchup is very sweet, but there’s a good amount of sugar added to something like that Soft drinks tend to be very acidic as well and that acidity adds to the problem because you have acidity that weakens the minerals in the teeth and then the sugar as well. So it’s sort of a one-two punch.

You know chewable vitamins…tend to be a little acidic because vitamins are acidic and they’re also sweetened so then the chewable vitamin tends to get sort of imbedded in the grooves in the teeth as its being chewed… There are things that you can eat like nuts or popcorn kernels or ice that could cause a crack in the tooth—could actually cause the tooth to split

or cause a piece of the tooth to split. Then you’ve got an area where the enamel’s damaged, rougher and easier for bacteria to adhere to. so it’s an area that’s just waiting for something else to happen to it.