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Low Potassium Guide
Potassium is a mineral found in the blood. Your levels of potassium are currently too high, which can affect the muscles and the heart. Potassium is found in all foods, so one of the ways to help reduce your levels is to cut down on those foods which are high in potassium.
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Foods to Avoid
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Foods Allowed |
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Drinks |
Coffee Pure Fruit Juices e.g. orange, apple, tomato Malted drinks e.g. Horlicks / Ovaltine Hot chocolate
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Water Tea Squashes Fizzy drinks Milk (up to 1/2 pint per day) Camp Coffee
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Fruit |
Bananas Apricots Rhubarb Dried Fruit |
5 portions of fruit & vegetable max Apples, pears, peaches, nectarine, small orange, mandarins, Handful of grapes, cherries, raspberries, strawberries Melon - 1 slice |
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Vegetables |
Spinach Mushrooms Parsnips Tinned tomatoes Jacket potato Chips |
Boiled or mashed potatoes Boiled vegetables e.g. Carrots, broccoli, courgette, swede, turnip. Cucumber, lettuce, peppers
1 fresh tomato per day |
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Others |
Vegetable based soups e.g. tomato, mushroom Low salt substitutes e.g. LoSalt, Ruthmol, Solo, Saxa Balance
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Chicken, beef or oxtail soups
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Snacks |
Potato crisps Chocolate Fruit Cake Nuts
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Maize/wheat/corn based crisps (1 pack per day) e.g. Skips, tortilla, Wheat Crunchies, Wotsits. Plain biscuits e.g. shortbread, digestives, rich tea, hobnobs Plain cake e.g. plain sponge, plain scones.
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This list is a short-term guide to reducing your potassium levels. If you are given this list by a specialist nurse/doctor, then please ask to be referred to a dietitian.
The dietitian can give you further advice on the need to continue this diet long term and details of other foods that are high in potassium. The dietitian will also help you to individualise this to your usual diet, and can answer any questions you may have about potassium.