Potassium

michaelsl8
michaelsl8 Posts: 2 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Trying to check if I'm getting enough potassium in my diet. I thought wild salmon was supposed to have potassium, but I tried various sources of wild salmon in the food diary at this site and they all show 0 potassium levels. Just wondering what's going on. Also, would like to know some good food sources of salmon that are safe on a low histamine diet. Thanks.

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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    The database is 99% crowd-sourced. In the U.S. potassium is not a required labeling nutrient.

    Most of the database is going to be wrong on potassium.

    Solution: go to your country's nutrition website. In the US it's the USDA nutrition database. Grab the info on potassium and enter your own entry into Myfitnesspal's database.


    If you're eating a variety of fruit and vegetables, you're probably fine. Potassium deficiency is rare.
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,887 Member
    edited March 2022
    100 g of raw sockeye salmon has 367 mg of potassium, according to the current USDA data. The best option is to learn the way those entries are structured (fish, salmon, sockeye, raw) and type them in so as to find the entries from the USDA MFP put in a while back (the numbers are slightly difference since I think they are revised regularly by the USDA), as they will have the full nutrition data (as well as numerous different unit options). I found an entry with potassium included easily doing that.

    But otherwise what cmriverside said -- it's really hard to track potassium on MFP bc many entries are missing it. It's now on US food labels but that's really recent and thus most entries in the database here won't have reliable numbers. You'd really need to use either foods with labels that have it (and add them if they need to be updated) and USDA type entries for whole foods to track at all accurately.
  • perryc05
    perryc05 Posts: 226 Member
    Potatoes are high in potassium but yeah there isn't much potassium info in the MFP database in a lot of the ingredient profiles so it always looks like you're short.
  • paints5555
    paints5555 Posts: 1,233 Member
    cmriverside wrote: »
    In the U.S. potassium is not a required labeling nutrient.

    Most of the database is going to be wrong on potassium.

    Potassium is a required nutrient now (last compliance date was 1/1/2021) but was voluntary prior to that. That means newer entries should have the information but only some of the older ones will have it.

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