Potassium

Clinno

Hello, I'm having trouble getting my potassium levels up. I found out that yogurt and milk have a good amount of potassium so I checked some of the yogurts on the list and they tend to have 0mg or N/A for potassium?
Does this mean they don't have any potassium?
or - the manufacturer has not supplied a guideline as to how much is in the product? in which case we could be getting the right amount of potassium but it not being shown in our nutrients window?

Any help would be much appreciated

Cheers, Clint.

dbnelson1203

I am having the same problem....not nearly enough potassium.

ShannonMpls

Potassium is not required to be listed on American nutrition labels. Therefore, many foods on the database don't have potassium listed even if the food contains it. You're probably getting a lot more than you think.

Pandorian

if you mean foods in the database without potassium listed that may not be an important nutrient for the person who entered it so even if it was supplied they didn't enter.
But you can also go for bananas or potatoes or sweet potatoes for potassium

paigele

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK307/

mbmorse1011

I had the same issue. I also read that in vitamins they are only allowed to put in 80-90g because an over dose on potassium is really bad.

jsjaclark

I checked the labels on the yogurt that I have and it has potassium. Like another poster mentioned, if you are looking in the MFP database, it could be that the member that input the food didn't include the potassium even though it was listed on the label.

Bananas are good for raising potassium.

Something I found out a few years ago, high sodium levels can lower potassium (and cause swelling). My doctor put me on potassium pills and told me to avoid salt. I am no longer on the potassium pills, but continue to avoid salt and buy reduced sodium products.

janf15

You should get a fair amount of potassium from yogurt. Check out http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/dairy-and-egg-products/106/2 and go to the mineral section 635 mg. Alternatives are kiwi fruit and coconut water, sweet potato, and bananas.

I am assuming you have had blood work to confirm the low potassium and had conversations with your health care provider about it.

AZmarce

Lots of potassium in tomatoes, avocados, spinach, orange juice, artichokes, mushrooms. Milk is pretty high, too. I know all this because my husband has chronic kidney disease and has to limit his potassium intake.

Clinno

Excellent, Such quick responses, I'm only 3 days into this gig and very impressed.
I am in Australia, not many products have potassium info. here either. I guess so long as I eat foods known to have good levels of potassium moderately I don't need to worry too much then.

Love this app.

thanks all, Clint