Potassium can regulate the appropriate osmotic pressure within the cells and the acid-base balance of body fluids, and participate in the metabolism of intracellular sugar and protein. It helps to maintain nerve health, normalize heartbeat, prevent stroke and assist normal muscle contraction. Potassium has a blood pressure-lowering effect when high sodium intake leads to high blood pressure.

Potassium deficiency in the body can cause an irregular and accelerated heartbeat, abnormal electrocardiograms, muscle weakness and irritability, and eventually cardiac arrest. Generally speaking, people in good health will automatically excrete the excess potassium out of the body. However, people with kidney disease should pay special attention to avoid consuming too much potassium.

The daily intake of potassium for adults is 2000 milligrams. The minimum daily requirement of potassium for infants and young children is 90 milligrams. Potassium is found in abundance in dairy products, fruits, vegetables, lean meats, organs, bananas, and raisins.

Fruits with high potassium content are:

1, banana

The types of nutrients contained in bananas are not special compared with other fruits, but the content of certain nutrients is somewhat special:

High sugar: the carbohydrate (sugar) content of bananas is particularly high. Sugar content per 100 grams of fruit, bananas about 28. 9 grams, other fruits such as apples, pears, watermelon and other sugar content of about 10 grams. Sugars contained in bananas are mostly monosaccharides and disaccharides.

High potassium: bananas are also particularly high in potassium. The potassium content per 100 grams of fruit, bananas about 330 mg, other fruits are lower, such as apples about 119 mg, pear 92 mg, peach 166 mg, grapes 104 mg, watermelon 87 mg.

2, cinnamon

Cinnamon in the fruit belongs to the higher calorie food, carbohydrate content and potassium content is high, vitamin C content is comparable to oranges.

Cinnamon contains a variety of nutrients, blood and tranquility, brain health, nourishing the heart and spleen effect; cinnamon on the uterine cancer cells inhibition rate of more than 90%, women menopause is a gynecological tumors occurring in the stage of appropriate to eat some of the longan is conducive to health; cinnamon has a complementary effect on the need for post-disease recuperation and physical weakness of the people with auxiliary therapeutic effects.

3, mango

To the Chinese medicine point of view, mango taste sweet and slightly acidic, there is a thirst, diuretic, vomiting, etc., can be said to be one of the most natural cure for motion sickness prescription. From a modern nutritional point of view, mango is rich in vitamin A, C, carotene, potassium, crude fiber, etc. Vitamin A content in all fruits is one of the highest, vitamin C is bananas, pineapples, twice; and vitamin A, C are important antioxidant nutrients.

Foods with low potassium content: Commonly used foods that contain less than 150 mg of potassium per 100 grams of food include pumpkin, zucchini, winter squash, eggplant, grapes, apples, sago, duck pear, Beijing White Pear, Red Shaw Pear, pineapple, and so on.

High potassium fruit list:

Fruit potassium content (mg/100g)

Dried cinnamon 1300, jujube 597, durian 420, Sakura 390, peach 300, banana 290, kiwi 290, mulberry 271, cinnamon 260, plum 240