Researching and finding a worthy list of foods high in potassium these days, has almost become a insult. Much of the information currently spread across the Internet is recycled rhetoric, juxtaposed, repackaged and ultimately redone to be displayed 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.

It is my desire that my humble attempt to help readers, make the truth known and ultimately transform my experience into words you can use that have resulted in my optimal health, disease free, or pain. Before we detail the high potassium foods and their components, let us first discuss the importance of potassium in your human body, blood, and how it could be a dangerous result if it is not properly handled.

Experiencing High Potassium Or Low Potassium?

It is unfair to simply assume a deficiency or excess of potassium in one's body must be countered by extreme, opposite measures to regulate potassium levels. This is the common thinking on so called 'health' web sites online. Often the prescribed remedy, whether all natural or not, is to simply do the reverse that ultimately caused either having too much potassium in your body or not enough.

In other words, although it might be logical at least in theory a human body depleted in a mineral can be remedied by increasing or decreasing the consumption of said mineral, or nutrient, potassium for this example until your ailment lessens or disappears entirely.

Which is exactly why so many race to the internet in order to 'self-medicate' and get more 'research' previously warned about via often completely fictional sites (the information found on Wikipedia represented as medical fact yes, actually could harm you more than help) that skew factual statements, misinterpret medical definitions, and overtly lie in a distasteful display of manipulation to seduce you to buy into a hidden agenda, often resulting in you parting with your cash.

Foods the boast higher potassium include, but aren't limited to: bananas, dates, apricots, brewer's yeast (not the same as baking yeast - brewer's yeast is an natural supplement that you can find in most health stores, or online), brown rice, potatoes, dulse (which is a form of sea weed, often sold in flat sheets dried and in the ethnic aisle at natural grocers - picture what sushi is wrapped in), garlic, dried fruits, winter squash, wheat bran, nuts, figs, yams and herbs such as: hops, horsetail, nettle, plantain, red clover, skullcap and sage.

This list of foods high in potassium is just the starting point. I will be adding more to the list in the next couple weeks, addressing 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 diet; keep this in mind.

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