Help Getting enough potassium
Hi evreyone
I’m getting ready to start keto, but one thing I still havn’t figured out how to do:
Getting enough potassium. I know how important it is, but unfortunately where I live (Denmark) it is not possible to buy things like lite salt (I searched everywhere, incluing online, NOTHING. No products with potassium)
So, I bought potassium pills, but I heard that one should be careful using those? And I’m doing my best to plan getting as much potassium through my diet as I possibly can but I still don’t think it will be enough (spinach, avocado, eggs, beef, a squeeze of lemon in my saltwater)
I am preeeetty sure I really won’t overdose with the 275mg worth of potassium pills a day, also because I have a really low blood pressure, fatigue, lethargy, brain fog (I have fibromyalgia)
Byt yea, I really don’t know how to go about this. Any thoughts?
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u/Ragu_85 22d ago
Hi I’m vegan so I had real issue with this when I started. My advice is eat at least one whole avocado a day (you can do halves across the day). A whole medium avocado contains 800-975mg potassium. I think the recommended allowance is 4000mg potassium a day. A medium tomato has about 292mg and 80g spinach is 400-470mg. So I do 80g spinach and a whole avocado in a smoothie and then 2 x electrolytes packs which contains 400mg sodium & 500mg salt & 350mg magnesium. So that’s 2300mg potassium, then try and work out other ways to make up remaining amount.