Researching and discovering a worthy list of foods high in potassium these days, has nearly become a joke. The majority of the information currently spread across the Internet is regurgitated rhetoric, rearranged, repackaged and ultimately redone to be presented as brand, spankin' new. Sharing 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 you, make the truth known and ultimately transform my experience into words you can use that have resulted in my optimal health, without disease, or pain. Before detailing the high potassium foods and their specificities, let us first discuss the importance of potassium in the human body, blood, and how it could be a dangerous result if not properly handled.

Showing High Potassium Or Low Potassium?

It is often completely wrong to simply assume a deficiency or excess of potassium in the body must be countered by extreme, opposite measures to regulate potassium levels. This is a predictable 'cure-all' on so called 'health' web sites on the Internet. As obvious as poorly researched information usually is, a correct solution or not, is to simply do the reverse 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 remedied by increasing or decreasing the consumption of said mineral, or nutrient, potassium in this case until your 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 absolutely bogus sites (the 'reporting' found on Wikipedia represented as medical fact could kill you) that twist facts, misinterpret medical definitions, and overtly lie in a shameful display of manipulation to persuade you to buy into a hidden agenda, often the result of you parting with your money.

The food that boasts higher concentrations of potassium include, but aren't limited to: bananas, dates, black strap molasses, brewer's yeast (not to be confused with baking yeast - brewer's yeast is an over the counter supplement that can be found in most health stores, or on the internet), brown rice, potatoes, dulse (a type of seaweed, usually sold dried, in a package and in the ethnic aisle at even conventional grocery stores - think sushi), garlic, dried fruit, 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 only a starting point. I'll be adding more to this list in the next couple weeks, detailing the low in potassium foods list and expanding upon it as time permits.

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

If any of your symptoms or health conditions have anything to do with kidneys, you experience frequent bouts of diarrhea and or vomiting, or you smoke, or you consume caffeine regularly, each and / or in combination will effect your potassium levels negatively.