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Doing the research and finding a worthwhile list of foods high in potassium these days, has nearly become a joke. Much of the information currently spread across the web is recycled rhetoric, juxtaposed, repackaged and ultimately redone to be showcased as new. Handing over a list of foods high in potassium, without first presenting the bigger picture, is anything, but ideal, or healthy.

My hope is that my humble effort to help readers, set the record straight and ultimately transform my experience into words you can use that have resulted in my optimal health, disease free, or pain. Before detailing the high potassium foods and their components, let us first discuss how vital potassium is in your human body, blood, and how it could be a contradicting force if it is not properly handled.

Have High Potassium Or Low Potassium?

It is often completely wrong to simply assume a deficiency or excess of potassium in your body must be countered by radical, opposite actions to bring potassium levels back inline. This is a predictable 'cure-all' on so called 'health' web sites on the Internet. Often the prescribed remedy, the right 'fix' or not, is to simply do the opposite 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 solved by adding or subtracting the intake of said mineral, or nutrient, potassium in this situation until one's ailment lessens or disappears entirely.

And that is exactly the reason so many run to the internet in order to 'self-medicate' and get more 'research' previously warned about from often absolutely dangerous sites (the advice from just anybody with a computer and an internet connection found on Wikipedia represented as medical fact could kill you) that misrepresent factual statements, misinterpret medical meanings, and overtly lie in a shameful display of manipulation to persuade you to buy into a hidden agenda, often resulting in you departing with your funds.

The food that boasts higher potassium include, but aren't 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 you can find in most health stores, or on the internet), brown rice, dulse (a type of seaweed, often sold dried, in a package and in the ethnic aisle at natural grocers - think sushi), garlic, dried fruit, winter squash, wheat bran, nuts, figs, herbs.

That list of foods high in potassium is just the starting point. I will be adding more to this list in the next couple weeks, addressing the low in potassium foods list and growing it as time permits.

Also of note before diving in to your high potassium or low potassium foods; keep this in mind.

If you have any issues with your kidneys, you experience frequent bouts of diarrhea, or you regularly smoke cigarettes, or you drink coffee regularly, each and / or in combination will effect your potassium levels adversely.