Low potassium foods and meals

Question
My dad is 63 he has high blood pressure and high collesteral 3 years ago he had a valve replacement and now has high pottassium I am trying to find out what foods he can eat he is a meat and potato and vegtable kind of person my mother dont know what too cook any more ,everything the doctors tell him that is good for his heart is bad for pottassium please help thank you Mike

Answer
Hi Mike,

Unfortunately your Dad's doctors are right: Meats must be excluded on a low potassium diet. As to plant-originated foods, below is a list list of low potassium foods. You'll see that some beans, pastas, eggplant, mushrooms, many salad greens are OK, so you can take a food from the list and search Internet for recipes using that food. For example, try this  black bean dip.

15.5 Oz.  can black beans, drained
0.5 cup  plain low fat yogurt
0.75 cup  mild salsa
Baked tortilla chips
Carrot and celery sticks

Place beans in food processor with metal blade. Process until fairly smooth, add yogurt, process 30 seconds.

Mix in salsa quickly.Place in an attractive bowl and serve with baked tortilla chips and/or carrot and celery sticks.

LOW POTASSIUM FOODS

Alfalfa sprouts
Apple (1 medium can be considered "low potassium")
Asparagus
Apricots
Blackberries
Beans
Blueberries
White cabbage
Carrots, cooked
Cauliflower
Celery (1 stalk)
Corn, fresh (0.5 ear can be considered "low potassium")
Cucumber
Cherries
Cranberries
Fruit Cocktail
Grapes
Grape Juice
Grapefruit (0.5 whole can be considered "low potassium")
Eggplant
Kale
Lettuce
Mushrooms
Noodles
Okra
Onions
Parsley
Pasta
Peas, green
Peppers
Radish
Rhubarb
Rice
Mandarin Oranges
Peaches, fresh (1 small can be considered "low potassium")
Pears, fresh (1 small can be considered "low potassium")
Pineapple
Pineapple Juice
Plums (1 whole)
Raspberries, Strawberries
Tangerine (1 whole can be considered "low potassium")
Watermelon (1 cup can be considered "low potassium")
Water Chestnuts
Water cress
Yellow Squash
Zucchini Squash  

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