Foods allowed in the Cretan diet

- Replace butter and margarine oils rich in monounsaturated fatty acids that reduce the rate of cholesterol and olive oil, rapeseed or soybean.
- Replace sugar with honey.
- Replacing red meat, rich in saturated fatty acids for poultry and rabbit meat.
- If you can, substitute milk products based on cow’s milk cheese from goat and sheep-fat yoghurt and skimmed milk.
- Fresh fruit, cooked or dried (400 g per day).
- Fresh and lightly cooked vegetables, lettuce, legumes and cereals, wholemeal bread or yeast.
- Fish, at least three times per week, rather oily fish.
- 1 or 2 glasses of red wine a day to the polyphenols.
- Fresh Herbs, which are good for health and pleasant to taste.