High or Low Potassium Foods

To minimize potassium build-up, a person with chronic kidney disease should stick to a low potassium content diet between 1,500 and 2,000 milligrams (mg) per day. Limiting phosphorus, sodium and fluids can also be important for people with renal dysfunction.Most foods have potassium. To keep your levels low, avoid or eat less than half a cup a day of these potassium-rich foods:

Potassium Rich Fruits:

• Apricots
• Bananas
• Yellow watermelon
• Dried fruit
• Yellow watermelon
• Kiwi
• Mango
• Nectarine
• Oranges and orange juice
• Papaya
• Pomegranate and pomegranate juice
• Plum and plum juice
• pumpkin
• raisins

Vegetables with High Potassium

• Acorn squash, butternut squash, Hubbard squash
• Avocado
• Artichoke
• Beets
• Baked beans, black beans, refried beans
• Cooked broccoli 
• Brussels sprouts
• Lentils
• Okra
• Fried onions 
• Parsnips
• Potatoes (white and sweet)
• Rutabagas
• Cooked spinach 
• Tomatoes, tomato sauce, and tomato paste
• Vegetable juice

Other High Potassium Foods

• Bran Products
• Chocolate
• coconut
• Creamed soup
• French fries
• Granola.
• Ice cream
• Milk 
• Miso
• Nuts
• Peanut butter
• French fries
• Salt substitute.
• Badge
• Tofu
• Yogurt

Low Potassium Fruits:

• Apples (plus apple juice and apple sauce)
• Blackberries
• blueberries
• blueberries
• Fruit cocktails
• Grapes and grape juice
• Grapefruit
• Mandarins
• peaches
• Pere
• Pineapple and pineapple juice
• Plums
• raspberries
• strawberries
• Tangerine
• Watermelon

Low potassium vegetables:

• Alfalfa sprouts
• Asparagus (6 raw spears)
• Broccoli (raw or cooked from frozen)
• Cabbage
• Carrots (cooked)
• Cauliflower
• Celery (1 stem)
• Maize (half an ear if it is on the cob)
• Cucumber
• Aubergine
• Green beans or wax beans
• cabbage
• Lettuce
• White mushrooms (raw)
• Onion
• Parsley
• Green peas)
• peppers
• Radish
• Water chestnuts
• Watercress
• Yellow pumpkin and zucchini

Other Low Potassium Foods

• Bread (except whole grain)
• Cake (angel or yellow)
• Coffee (8 ounces)
• Biscuits (no nuts or chocolate)
• noodles
• Pasta
• Cakes (without chocolate or fruit with a high potassium content)
• Rice
• Tea (maximum 16 ounces)