Researching and discovering a worthwhile list of foods high in potassium these days, has almost become a joke. Much of the information spreading across the Internet is regurgitated rhetoric, juxtaposed, reworded and ultimately redone to be displayed as brand, spankin' new. Giving a reader a list of foods high in potassium, without properly putting such information into real world context, is anything, but helpful, or healthy.

My hope is that my genuine attempt to help you, set the record straight and ultimately put words to my experiences that have resulted in my healthy lifestyle, free from disease, or pain. Before we detail the high potassium foods and their specificities, let us first discuss the importance of potassium in your human body, cells, and how it could be a contradicting result if not properly maintained.

Have High Potassium Or Low Potassium?

It is unfair to just assume high potassium or low potassium in your body must be dealt with, by extreme, opposite actions to bring potassium levels back inline. This is the common thinking on 'health sites' online. Often the prescribed remedy, a correct solution or not, is to just do the reverse that ultimately caused either having too much potassium in your body or not enough.

Another way of saying it, logic states a human body depleted in a mineral can be solved by increasing or decreasing the intake of said mineral, or nutrient, potassium for this example until your ailment lessens or disappears entirely.

And that is exactly why so many clamor to online in order to 'self-medicate' and get information previously warned about from often completely bogus web sites (the information found on Wikipedia presented as medical fact yes, actually could harm you more than help) that skew facts, misinterpret medical meanings, and blatantly lie in a distasteful display of manipulation to persuade you to buy into an agenda, often the result of you departing with your funds.

Foods the boast high 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 natural supplement that can be found in most health stores, or online), potatoes, dulse (a type of sea weed, usually sold dried, in a package and in the ethnic aisle at grocery stores - think sushi), garlic, dried fruits, winter squash, wheat bran, nuts, figs, herbs.

That list of foods high in potassium is only a starting point. I'll be adding more to this list in future weeks, addressing the low in potassium foods list and growing it as time permits.

Also of note before you go diving into 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 vomiting, or you smoke, or you drink coffee regularly, each and / or in together will effect your potassium levels negatively.