Controlling potassium intake

Lower in Potassium

Higher in Potassium Suitable portion sizes shown

High in Potassium Try to avoid

Starchy

Try to include something starchy at each meal

Bread
Chapatti
Noodles
Pasta,  
Rice
Cereal eg. Weetabix, puffed rice, cornflakes etc

Potatoes, cassava, yam (boiled)
- 150g (6oz)
Once boiled can be mashed, roasted, chipped or sautéed

Do NOT steam, microwave or use a pressure cooker. Throw cooking water away

Chips (unless pre-boiled)

Roast Potato, Croquette potato, Jacket potatoes Potato waffles,

Cereal with dried fruit, chocolate or nuts e.g. fruit & fibre, muesli, coco pops

Meat and Poultry

4oz for a main meal
2oz for snack meal

Fish

6oz for a main meal
3oz for a snack meal

Beans / pulses / dahl

Can be taken instead of meat / fish as a meal – up to 3tbsp

Dairy Products

Eggs ( /week)

Cheese ( /week)

Yogurt up to 2 pots / week

Soup

All soups – packet, tinned & homemade

Snacks

Snacks may be high in fat and sugar or salt

Corn, Maize & wheat snacks e.g. Tortillas or Quavers

Bread sticks

Popcorn, Plain biscuits, shortbread, Madeira, sponge cake

Potato crisps

Nuts -all

Gathia & Sev

Bombay mix, Chocolate, dried fruit or nut biscuits or cake

Sweets

Sugar free sweets for those with diabetes

Boiled sweet
Jelly sweets
Mints

Chocolate
Toffee
Fudge
Asian sweets – e.g. Burfi

Condiments/ Seasoning

Fresh Herbs
Pepper
Vinegar
Salad cream
Mayonnaise
Mustard

Pinch of Dried Herbs
1tbsp mint/apple sauce
1 tsp Sweet pickle/ cranberry sauce

Salt Substitutes eg Ruthmol, LoSalt or Selora
Tomato sauce
Brown Sauce

Drinks

Sugar free drinks for those with diabetes

Diluting squash/ cordial
Fizzy drinks
Spirits
Tea

Milk up to 1/3 pint/ 200ml /day
Coffee 1 cup /day
1 glass of wine/ stout/ beer/day if taken and allowed by medical team

All fruit juices
High Juice drinks
Blackcurrant juices
Chocolate/ Cocoa
Malted milks

Lower in Potassium

High in Potassium

Avoid

Vegetables

Up to 2 portions / day from lower in potassium list

Vegetables should be boiled and the water thrown away

DO NOT steam, use a microwave or pressure cooker

Asparagus – 4 spears, Aubergine

Beansprouts, Broccoli, Carrots, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Cucumber, Courgette, Green beans, Green or red pepper, Leeks, Mangetout, Marrow, Mixed vegetables (frozen), Mushrooms (canned), Onion, Peas, Runner beans, Spring greens, Swede, Sweetcorn (baby), Turnip

Artichoke, Baked beans, Beetroot (raw/boiled), Broad beans, Brussel sprouts, Butternut squash, Celeriac, Chard, Karela, Mushrooms, Okra, Parsnips, Red kidney beans, Spinach, Sweetcorn,

Taro tuber, Vegetable juices, Water chestnuts, Okra, Karela

Tomatoes

Tomatoes are quite high in potassium – a couple of slices in a sandwich or salad is fine. However dishes made with tomatoes should be served with rice, pasta or bread instead potatoes (no potatoes should be taken on that day).

Fruit

Up to 2 portions / day from lower in potassium list

Apples (1), Bilberries/Blueberries (20),
Blackberries (15), Cherries (12)
Clementines (2),Cranberries (20),
Fig (1 fresh), Gooseberries (12),
Grapes (15)Grapefruit (half), Kiwi (1),
Melon (water and galia – 1 small slice (100g),
Nectarines (1small), Oranges (1 small),
Peaches (1), Pears (1 small)
Pineapple (2 small slices),
Plums (1), Raspberries (15),
Strawberries (8),Tangerines/satsumas (1)
Tinned fruit (1 small tin-Juice drained).

Apricot, Avocado, Bananas,
Blackcurrants,
Damsons, Dried fruit –ALL
(e.g. sultanas, prunes, raisins),
Elderberries, Guava,
Loganberries, Mangoes,
Melon – Cantaloupe/Honeydew
Papaya, Pomegranate,
Redcurrants, Rhubarb,
Sharon fruit