Researching and discovering a worthy list of foods high in potassium these days, has nearly become a insult. Much of the information currently spread across the web is regurgitated rhetoric, rearranged, reworded and ultimately redone to be showcased as brand, spankin' new. Giving a reader a list of foods high in potassium, without first presenting the bigger picture, is anything, but ideal, or best for your health, in fact.

My hope is that my genuine attempt to help people, make the truth known and hopefully transform my experience into words you can use that have led to my healthy lifestyle, free from disease, or discomfort. Before detailing the high potassium foods and their components, let us first discuss the importance of potassium in the human body, blood, and how it could be a contradicting force if it is not properly handled.

Experiencing High Potassium Or Low Potassium?

It is often completely wrong to just assume 'excess potassium' in one's body should be countered by extreme, opposite measures to bring potassium levels back inline. This is a predictable 'cure-all' on 'health sites' online. Silly as it seems, the right 'fix' or not, is to just do the reverse that ultimately caused 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 resolved by adding or subtracting the consumption of said mineral, or nutrient, potassium for this example until one's ailment lessens or disappears completely.

And that is exactly the reason so many run to the internet in order to diagnose and get information previously warned about from often completely dangerous online sites (the 'reporting' found on Wikipedia represented as medical fact could kill you) that misrepresent facts, misinterpret medical meanings, and overtly lie in a distasteful display of manipulation to persuade you to buy into an agenda, often the result of you parting with your funds.

Foods the boast higher potassium include, but are not limited to: bananas, dates, apricots, brewer's yeast (not the same as the yeast you bake with - brewer's yeast is an over the counter supplement that can be found in most health stores, or on the internet), potatoes, dulse (a type of seaweed, often sold in flat sheets dried and in the ethnic aisle at natural grocers - think sushi), garlic, dried fruit, winter squash, wheat bran, nuts, figs, yams.

And that list of foods high in potassium is just the starting point. I will be adding more to the list in future weeks, detailing the low in potassium foods list and growing it as time permits.

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

If any of your symptoms or health conditions have anything to do with kidneys, participate in any activity that encourages diarrhea, or you regularly smoke cigarettes, or you drink coffee regularly, each and / or in combination will directly effect your potassium levels negatively.