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High potassium fruits and vegetables list

Posted By rajivmishra40 on Jul 30, 2009 FROM: buzzle.com report abuse

Potassium is a mineral that controls nerve and muscle function. It is a mineral found in many of the foods you eat. It plays a role in keeping your heartbeat regular. It is the work of kidneys to keep the right amount of potassium in your body.

The best potassium rich food sources must be high in potassium but low in sodium because sodium makes the body hold water. Natural plant foods are usually high sources of potassium compared to many processed foods. If your potassium becomes too high, it can cause an irregular heartbeat or a heart attack.

If there is potassium in the blood very low then it refers to the condition called Hypokalemia. Hypo means low, Kal means Kalium and emia means "in the blood."

You can know safe level of potassium in your blood by asking your doctor or dietitian about your monthly blood potassium level and check here:

3.5-5.0-You are in the SAFE zone
5.1-6.0-You are in the CAUTION zone
More than 6.0-You are in the DANGER zone

You can see here the list of Low and High fruits and vegetables:

Low potassium foods
General foods	Vegetables	Fruits
Bread (bread products) Cake – angel, yellow Coffee ( maximum 8 ounces) Cookies (without nuts or chocolate) Noodles Pasta Pies (without chocolate or high-potassium foods) Rice Tea (maximum 16 ounces)	Alfalfa sprouts Asparagus – 6 spears Beans (wax or green) Cabbage (red and green) Canned Chestnuts Carrots (cooked) Celery (1 stalk) Corn (Fresh - ½ ear, Frozen - ½ cup) Cucumber Eggplant Fresh mushrooms Green Peas Kale Leached potatoes Lettuce Mixed vegetables Okra Onions Parsley Peppers Radish Rhubarb Water Watercress	Apple – 1 medium/juice/sauce Apricots, canned in juice Blackberries Blueberries Cherries Cranberries Fruit cocktail Grapes (juice) Grapefruit, ½ whole Mandarin oranges Peaches – Fresh (1 small), Canned (½ cup) Pears – Fresh (1 small), Canned (½ cup) Pineapple (juice) Plums – 1 whole Raspberries Strawberries Tangerine – 1 whole Watermelon – 1 cup
High potassium levels
General foods	Vegetables	Fruits
Bran (products) - ½ cup Chocolate – 1.5 to 2 ounces Granola - ½ cup Milk - ½ cup of any type Molasses – 1 tablespoon Nutritional supplements Nuts and seeds – 1 ounce Peanut butter – 2 tablespoons Salt substitutes - ½ cup Salt free broth - ½ cup Snuff or chewing tobacco Yogurt - ½ cup	Acorn squash Artichoke Bamboo shoots Baked beans Butternut squash Beets (fresh or boiled) Black beans Brussels sprouts Chinese cabbage Carrots (raw) Dried beans and peas Greens (excluding Kale) Hubbard squash Kohlrabi Lentils Legumes Mushrooms (canned) Parsnips Potatoes (white and sweet) Pumpkin Refried beans Rutabagas Spinach (cooked) Tomatoes (products) Vegetable juices	Apricots (Raw – 2 medium, Dry – 5 halves) Avocado - ¼ whole Banana - ½ whole Cantaloupe - ½ cup Dates – 5 whole Dried fruits - ½ cup Figs (dried - ½ cup) Grapefruit juice ( ½ cup) Honeydew (½ cup) Kiwi (1 medium) Mango ( 1 medium) Nectarine (1 medium) Orange ( 1 medium or ½ cup juice) Papaya (½ whole) Pomegranate (1 whole or ½ cup juice) Prune (½ cup or ½ cup juice) Raisins (½ cup)