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Foods to be avoided by Hypothyroid Patients. Millet. Patients with hypothyroidism should avoid millet, which may be contained in cruciferous vegetables. Millet interferes with your body's iodine uptake, which is already damaged due to your thyroid condition.
In addition, there are a few other foods not included in these categories such as peaches, strawberries, peanuts, radishes, spinach and millet that also contain goitrogens. Isoflavones such as genisten in soy products block thyroid hormone by blocking an enzyme responsible for adding iodine to the thyroid hormone. A second category of foods associated with low thyroid production is the cruciferous food family.