Researching and discovering a worthwhile list of foods high in potassium these days, has almost become a insult. The majority of the information currently spread across the Internet is recycled rhetoric, juxtaposed, repackaged and ultimately redone to be showcased as brand, spankin' new. Sharing a list of foods high in potassium, without first presenting the bigger picture, is anything, but ideal, or healthy.

My hope is that my genuine attempt to help those seeking potassium help, 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 pain. Before detailing the high potassium foods and their components, let us first discuss the importance of potassium in the human body, blood and cells, and the reasons why it could be a contradicting result if it is not properly handled.

Do You Suffer From High Potassium Or Low Potassium?

It is unfair to just assume high potassium or low potassium in one's body should be dealt with, by extreme, opposite measures to regulate potassium levels. This is a predictable 'cure-all' on so called 'health' web sites online. Silly as it seems, the right 'fix' or not, is to just do the exact opposite that ultimately resulted in either having high potassium or low potassium.

Another way of saying it, logic states a human body depleted in a mineral can be resolved by adding or subtracting the intake of said mineral, or nutrient, potassium for this example until one's deficiency or excessive potassium levels lessens or disappears entirely.

And that is exactly the reason so many race to online to diagnose and get information previously warned about from often completely dangerous sites (the advice from just anybody with a computer and an internet connection found on Wikipedia represented as medical fact yes, actually could harm you more than help) that twist factual statements, misinterpret medical meanings, and blatantly lie in a shameful display of manipulation to seduce you to buy into a hidden agenda, often the result of you departing with your money.

Foods the boast high potassium include, but are not limited to: bananas, dates, apricots, brewer's yeast (not to be confused with baking yeast - 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, usually sold in flat sheets dried and in the ethnic sections at grocery stores - picture what sushi is wrapped in), garlic, dried fruits, winter squash, wheat bran, nuts, figs, yams.

This list of foods high in potassium is only a starting point. I will be adding more to the list in future weeks, addressing the low in potassium foods list and expanding upon it as time permits.

Also of note before diving into 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 consume caffeine regularly, each and / or in combination will directly effect your potassium levels negatively.