While spicy food, like hot curries or anything with hot peppers, doesn't affect the LES in the way that other foods do, many patients with GERD are recommended to cut spicy foods out of their diet.

Alcohol (particularly white wine) can cause the valve muscle to relax more and increase acid reflux. In some people caffeine and chocolate can also be triggers. “Some people find spicy foods ...

Patients with GERD are usually treated with once-daily PPIs; however, studies have shown that 25–42% of patients treated with a standard-dose PPI continue to experience symptoms of GERD ...

By Kerry Torrens – Nutritionist Is acid reflux ... foods may lessen the effects of reflux when combined with lifestyle ...