Sorry to be jumping into this with both feet...

The legumes and beans have a fairly high carbohydrate content, which yeasts love. Carbohydrates are not just starches they are also include dietary fiber. Yeasts are very good at digesting fiber as well as starch. The thing about candida imbalances is that once candida is not ruling the roost, so to speak, in the GI tract, a person can go back to eating higher carbohydrate foods like beans and potatoes and fruits. You are not going to have to give these foods up forever!

Candida is a part of the micro biome of the gut; it works with other yeasts in the digestive tract as part of the fermentation process of food digestion. When it becomes one of the more dominant micro organisms, then it causes problems. So by reducing the foods it loves (sugar and carbs) and with the help of coconut oil, candida can go back to being a member of the micro biome team, instead of trying to be the captain of the team :-)

Catherine, my suggestion is that you are probably going to want to listen to your intuition on miso. Many candida cleanses recommend not using it. Again, once you get candida under control, which can take a few days or a few weeks depending on your diet leading up to the imbalance, then you can return to eating foods like miso and legumes. If your diet is already pretty clean it should not take very long to re-gain gut balance.

tigger