Think You Want A List Of Foods High In Potassium? Oh, Really?

August 20, 2009 | By In General Articles |

Researching and finding a worthwhile list of foods high in potassium these days, has nearly become a joke. Much of the information spreading across the Internet is regurgitated rhetoric, juxtaposed, repackaged and ultimately redone to be showcased as brand, spankin’ new. Handing over a list of foods high in potassium, without first presenting the bigger picture, is anything, but helpful, or healthy.

It is my desire that my genuine effort to help you, make the truth known and hopefully put words to my experiences that have resulted in my healthy lifestyle, disease free, or pain. Before we detail the high potassium foods and their specificities, let us first discuss how vital potassium is in your human body, blood, and how it could be a contradicting force if it is not properly maintained.

Experiencing High Potassium Or Low Potassium?

It is unfair to just assume a deficiency or excess of potassium in one’s body must be countered by radical, opposite measures to bring potassium levels back inline. This is a predictable ‘cure-all’ on so called ‘health’ web sites on the Internet. Often the prescribed remedy, a correct solution or not, is to just do the reverse that ultimately resulted in either having high potassium or low potassium.

In other words, although it might be logical at least in theory when the human body is depleted by a mineral can be resolved by adding or subtracting the consumption of said mineral, or nutrient, potassium in this situation until your ailment lessens or disappears entirely.

And that is exactly why so many clamor to online in order to diagnose and get information previously warned about from often completely preposterous web sites (the advice from just anybody with a computer and an internet connection found on Wikipedia presented as medical fact could kill you) that skew facts, misinterpret medical definitions, and overtly lie in a shameful display of manipulation to coax you to buy into an agenda, often the result of you parting with your funds.

Foods the boast higher concentrations of potassium include, but aren’t limited to: bananas, dates, black strap molasses, brewer’s yeast (not to be confused with baking yeast - brewer’s yeast is an natural supplement that you can find in most health stores, or online), potatoes, dulse (a type of seaweed, usually sold in flat sheets dried and in the ethnic sections at natural grocers - think sushi), garlic, dried fruit, winter squash, wheat bran, nuts, figs, yams and herbs such as: hops, horsetail, nettle, plantain, red clover, skullcap and sage.

That list of foods high in potassium is just the starting point. I will be adding more to this list in the next couple weeks, addressing the low in potassium foods list and expanding upon it as time permits.

Also of note before you go diving in to your high potassium or low potassium diet; keep this in mind.

If any of your symptoms or health conditions have anything to do with kidneys, you experience frequent bouts of vomiting, or you regularly smoke cigarettes, or you drink coffee regularly, each and / or in combination will directly effect your potassium levels negatively.