Evening Garnet, At 08:30 PM 3/8/04, you wrote:
Watermelon, apricots and dates are all pretty high in Potassium. I can look up the values if anyone wants them from the USDA charts.
I would consider watermelon to be average or low, depending on what you compare it with.
The concentration of a given food has a direct bearing on the potassium content per 100 grams. Some foods are highly concentrated while others are lowly concentrated. No one eats a few pounds of raisins, almonds, or other nuts or seeds. Eating several pounds of fruit and produce is possible and probably within a day.
Most of this academic stuff is irrelevant to most people because they do not eat enough of the food for it to be of value.
Counting K mg is a lot like counting calories and playing Russian roulette with the glycemic index. It is not going to make us healthy or provide us with adequate nutrients.
One must eat good food, regularly, continuously, for the amounts to add up enough to provide health.
I eat pounds of tomatoes per day and many pounds of watermelon because I have them, I like them, and I consider them good food.
Most people never eat 2 to 4 pounds of tomatoes per day in their lifetime. They never eat half of a 40 or 45 pound watermelon. Talk about potassium ..... how many eat 50 figs per day?
The mickey mouse meals many people eat indicate they might as well give up and hit the supplements several times per day.
Of course I know the people here are not the average people I am talking about.
I say again, I have asked many friends, how much potassium do we need per day, and how much do you get? No one has given me an answer yet.
I am about tired of telling them my secrets of nutrition and health which have been suppressed from the public all their life and mine as well.
We have to hunt and search, and search and hunt for the truth. Some of us have found a small percent of it.
Potassium, like many other things has been a sore subject with me because everyone ignores it and expects the cells to keep working like a fine swiss watch.
As far as I am concerned all fresh raw produce has the same amount of potassium. Average about 300 mg per 100 grams. The nuts and raisins I eat daily are some of the highest, about 700 mg per 100 grams.
All I can get and all I can eat should give me enough. And.... I still pop a supplement from time to time.
Wayne
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