Researching and finding a worthwhile list of foods high in potassium these days, has almost become a joke. The majority of the information spreading across the web is regurgitated rhetoric, juxtaposed, repackaged and ultimately redone to be displayed as new. Sharing a list of foods high in potassium, without first presenting the bigger picture, is anything, but ideal, or healthy.

It is my desire that my genuine effort to help you, make the truth known and ultimately transform my experience into words you can use that have led to my healthy lifestyle, free from disease, or pain. Before we detail the potassium rich foods and their specificities, let us first discuss how vital potassium is in the human body, cells, and how it could be a dangerous force if it is not properly maintained.

Is It High Potassium Or Low Potassium?

It is often completely wrong to simply assume 'potassium deficiency' in your body must be dealt with, by extreme, opposite actions to regulate potassium levels. This is the common thinking on so called 'health' web sites online. Often the prescribed remedy, the right 'fix' or not, is to simply do the reverse that ultimately resulted in either having too much potassium in your body or not enough.

Another way of saying it, although it might be logical at least in theory when the human body is depleted by a mineral can be remedied by adding or subtracting the consumption of said mineral, or nutrient, potassium for this example until your ailment lessens or disappears completely.

And that is exactly the reason so many scurry to online in order to diagnose and get more 'research' previously warned about via often absolutely preposterous web sites (the 'reporting' found on Wikipedia represented as medical fact could kill you) that misrepresent factual statements, misinterpret medical meanings, and blatantly lie in a distasteful display of manipulation to persuade you to buy into an agenda, often resulting in you departing with your money.

Foods the boast high potassium include, but are not limited to: bananas, dates, black strap molasses, brewer's yeast (not the same as baking yeast - brewer's yeast is an over the counter supplement that you can find in most health stores, or on the internet), potatoes, dulse (a type of seaweed, usually sold in flat sheets dried and in the ethnic sections at even conventional grocery stores - 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.

And that list of foods high in potassium is only a starting point. I'll 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.

A couple last notes before you go diving in to your high potassium or low potassium diet; keep this in mind.

If you have any issues with your kidney function, participate in any activity that encourages diarrhea, or you regularly smoke cigarettes, or you drink coffee regularly, each and / or in together will directly effect your potassium levels negatively.