Blood tests can detect low protein levels. Photo Credit Comstock/Comstock/Getty Images. When a blood test reveals that your total protein and albumin levels are low, this can be an indication of certain underlying health conditions. Although the two main proteins are albumin and globulin, albumin is the major protein found in blood plasma.
Check packages of prepared baked items and avoid any with soy protein, casein, wheat gluten, malted barley, and non-fat dried milk as an ingredient. Avoid aspartame, Nutrasweet, diet drinks and artificially sweetened desserts - ESPECIALLY gelatin.
Some foods and substances that you should try to limit, rather than completely avoid, include the following: 1  nuts (cashew, peanut, walnuts). 2  seeds (pumpkin, sunflower). 3  most legumes. 4  fruits (blueberry, cranberry, plum). 5  corn oil.6  sweeteners (sugars, molasses, maple syrup, processed honey, aspartame). 7  salt.ome foods and substances that you should try to limit, rather than completely avoid, include the following: 1  nuts (cashew, peanut, walnuts). 2  seeds (pumpkin, sunflower). 3  most legumes. 4  fruits (blueberry, cranberry, plum). 5  corn oil.