V-8

[Guest guest]

I don't often buy processed foods/drinks. We shop mostly in an organic

foods store. The question is, I have a juicer of my own and I'm

wondering what vegetables in the V-8 provide the high potassium. I'm

thinking I could make something comparable myself (probubly not as

tasty though).

[Guest guest]

I did some research for you. Amazingly, there are many, many sources of

potassium, not just bananas! For juicing, add a small potato, I found out

it's high in potassium. Also carrots, beets and celery are good. When I

juice I juice a whole bunch of carrots, 1 beet, 2 sm. or 1 very large

apple, celery (now that I found out it's high in the RIGHT kind of sodium),

a piece of celery root (celeriac), a jerusalem artichoke or sunchoke (if

the store has some at the time), a zucchini (don't peel it, the peel is

high in vitamin K), a small bunch of parsley, and, in the growing season, I

raid the peppermint/spearmint patches for a few leaves, and also the weed

chickweed is excellent and tastes great (of course, make sure the lawn

hasn't been " treated " ). I sometimes juice white turnips (the sweet kind)

when they're available. Another food high in potassium is canned

tomatoes..............so that's why I've been craving eggplant parmesan and

had it twice recently!! I also juice organic oranges and grapefruit, also

high in potassium. This page here has a FABULOUS recipe for a potassium

broth made with potatoes: http://www.diagnose-me.com/treat/T154575.html

Here are more terrific pages, with lists of high potassium foods:

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/potassium-rich-foods-list-of-foods-high-in-potass\

ium.html

http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/food/potassium-foods.htm

http://www.fpnotebook.com/Renal/Pharm/FdsWthHghPtsmCntnt.htm

http://www.wisegeek.com/which-foods-are-good-sources-of-potassium.htm

As you can see, a varied diet should provide plenty of potassium.

Ellen

mmcandmcc wrote:

> I don't often buy processed foods/drinks. We shop mostly in an organic

> foods store. The question is, I have a juicer of my own and I'm

> wondering what vegetables in the V-8 provide the high potassium. I'm

> thinking I could make something comparable myself (probubly not as

> tasty though).

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