you can’t sleep, it could be a result of what you are eating and what you are not eating.  Tryptophan is a precursor of sleep-inducing serotonin and melatonin.  Below see our comprehensive list of foods containing high levels of tryptophan.  Each week, the editors of SleepBetterTips.com will give you new recipes that will hopefully help you combat insomnia.

Each recipe will be a combination of foods high in tryptophan and foods with high amounts of carbs.  The combination of combine foods high in tryptophan with high amounts of carbs has been shown to help people fall asleep faster.

According to Wikipedia, foods with considerable amounts of tryptophan include: chocolate, oats, bananas, durians, mangoes, dried dates, milk, yogurt, cottage cheese, red meat, eggs, fish, poultry, sesame, chickpeas, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, spirulina, and peanuts. See our complete list below:

• Almonds
• Aramanth
• Asparagus
• Beets
• Broccoli
• Brussel sprouts
• Bananas
  • Warm Milk and Banana Smoothie
• Berries
• Beef
• Buckwheat
• Cantaloup
• Caribou
• Carrots
• Cauliflower
• Celery
• Cheese, Cheddar
• Cheese, Parmesan
• Cherries
  • Cherry Mango Smoothie Recipe
• Chicken
• Chickpeas
• Chocolate
• Cod, Atlantic
• Corn
• Cottage Cheese
• Couscous, whole wheat
• Cucumbers
• Dried Dates
• Durians
• Egg
• Fish
• Grapefruit
• Grapes
• Greens, leafy
• Ice cream
• Kale
• Lamb, Chop
• Lemon
• Mango
  • Thai Mango Sticky Rice Recipe
  • Mango Lassi Recipe
    
• Milk
  • Warm Milk Recipe
  • Warm Milk and Banana Smoothie
• Oatmeal
• Oats
• Onion
• Oranges
• Papaya
• Peas
• Peanuts
• Peanut butter
• Perch, Atlantic
• Potatoes
• Plums
• Pork, Chop
• Potatoes, Russet
• Poultry
• Pumpkin
• Quinoa
  • Tomato, Feta and Artichoke Quinoa Salad Recipe
• Red Meat
• Rice, White
• Salmon
• Scallions
• Sesame
• Sesame Seed
• Shallots
• Shrimp
  • Shrimp With Bok Choy and Corn
• Soy sausage
• Soybeans
• Spinach
• Spirulina
• Squash
• Sunflower Seed
• Tomatoes
• Turkey
• Watermelon
• Wheat Flour, White
• Yam
• Yogurt
• Walnuts