Doing the research and finding a worthy list of foods high in potassium these days, has nearly become a joke. Much of the information currently spread across the Internet is recycled rhetoric, juxtaposed, reworded 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 humble attempt to help people, set the record straight and hopefully put words to my experiences that have led to my optimal health, without disease, or discomfort. Before detailing the high potassium foods and their specificities, let us first discuss the importance of potassium in your human body, blood, and how it could be a contradicting force if it is not properly handled.

Do You Suffer From High Potassium Or Low Potassium?

It is often completely wrong to just assume high potassium or low potassium in the body must be dealt with, by extreme, opposite measures to regulate potassium levels. This is the common thinking on 'health sites' on the Internet. As obvious as poorly researched information usually is, whether all natural or not, is to just do the exact opposite that ultimately caused either having high potassium or low potassium.

In other words, logic states when the human body is depleted by a mineral can be resolved by adding or subtracting the intake of said mineral, or nutrient, potassium for this example until your ailment lessens or disappears completely.

Which is exactly why so many race to online to diagnose and get information previously warned about from often completely preposterous web 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 misrepresent facts, misinterpret medical meanings, and overtly lie in a shameful display of manipulation to coax you to buy into an agenda, often the result of you departing with your money.

The food that boasts high potassium include, but aren't limited to: bananas, dates, apricots, brewer's yeast (not the same as baking yeast - brewer's yeast is an natural supplement that you can find in most health stores, or online), potatoes, dulse (a type of sea weed, usually sold in flat sheets dried and in the ethnic sections at grocery stores - think sushi), garlic, dried fruit, winter squash, wheat bran, nuts, figs, yams.

That 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 diving in to 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 and or vomiting, or you regularly smoke cigarettes, or you drink coffee regularly, each and / or in combination will effect your potassium levels adversely.

For a continual resource dedicated to potassium levels and list of foods high in potassium go to the potassium health site dedicated to just that.