It is
better to get the Ph over to the alkaline side by the post-digestive effect of food.
The solution of baking soda is from the frontier days, in the american west, during smallpox and flu epidemics that killed entire village settlements of people. No hygiene. Unsafe drinking water. No balance of electrolytes. Principally all-meat diet (post digestive effect acid Ph).
For example, the post-digestive effect of tangerine juice is alkaline. Go figure.
I got Tangerine juice by the half gallon at Trader Joe's, when I had the flu this year.
There are charts, found in books about ayurveda. I think I first saw the food charts in Ayurvedic Healing: A Comprehensive Guide by David Frawley. Maybe Ayurveda, Nature's Medicine. It has been some years since I first ran across this age-old science of nutrition.
Here is a nice
overview of food energies, according to ayurveda.
Here is
an ayurveda explanation - there are non-English terms and terminology - and much further down the page
dietary recommendations and indications describing achieving full balance. The information there, however, is specifically to overcome dis-ease.
It is sufficient to select one food from the appropriate category: for example, I purchase organic key lime juice and add a little to purchased drinking water, avoiding public drinking water in flu season and public paces. I did not; I got the flu.
Raspberries have alkaline post-digestive effect.
For example, by selecting the foods listed for post digestive effect alkaline Ph the human system is Ph alkaline.
Here are the foods in her one list:
Beets, celery, zucchini, sweet potato, avocado, okra, summer squash, turnip greens.
broccoli, wheat grass, spinach (only when cooked with the spice mixture), olives, lemon, asparagus, cabbage, swiss chard, kale
Mung dahl, tapioca, barley, millet, oat bran, buckwheat, semolina
French lentil. Soaked almonds, sesame seeds. Quinoa, amaranth, millet, wild rice, oats.
Strawberries, cranberries apricots, oranges, guava, pineapple, papaya, prunes. Raw honey, maple syrup. Lime and lemon juice.
Sweet grapes, dates, kiwis, sweet berries, raisins. Lime juice.
Nectarines, raspberries, honeydew, pineapple and/or papaya after lunch. Lime juice.
There are more comprehensive lists in the book by Vasant Lad.
It isn't necessary to do everything. It is important to do something.