A Comprehensive List of Foods Low in Potassium
This post was created to help anyone following a low potassium diet identify the foods they can safely eat. Understanding what foods are low in potassium is the first step to creating an easy and delicious low potassium meal.
1: Fruits and Vegetables Low in Potassium
The portion size is ½ cup unless otherwise stated. For an in-depth database of fruits and vegetables and their potassium levels, check out our nutrition lookup tool.
Fruits
- Apple (1 medium)
- Apple Juice
- Applesauce
- Apricots, canned in juice
- Blackberries
- Blueberries
- Cherries
- Cranberries
- Fruit Cocktail
- Grapes
- Grape Juice
- Grapefruit (½ whole)
- Mandarin Oranges
- Peaches, fresh (1 small)
- Pears, fresh (1 small)
- Pineapple
- Pineapple Juice
- Plums (1 whole)
- Raspberries
- Strawberries
- Tangerine (1 whole)
- Watermelon (limit to 1 cup)
Vegetables
- Alfalfa sprouts
- Asparagus (6 spears raw)
- Beans, green or wax
- Broccoli (raw or cooked from frozen)
- Cabbage, green and red
- Carrots, cooked
- Cauliflower
- Celery (1 stalk)
- Corn, fresh (½ ear) frozen (½ cup)
- Cucumber
- Eggplant
- Kale
- Lettuce
- Mixed Vegetables
- White Mushrooms, raw (½ cup)
- Onions
- Parsley
- Peas, green
- Peppers
- Radish
- Rhubarb
- Water Chestnuts, canned
- Watercress
- Yellow Squash
- Zucchini Squash
2: What drinks are low in potassium?
- Apple juice ½ cup (4 ounces) 150mg
- Cran-apple juice ½ cup (4 ounces) 35mg
- Cranberry juice cocktail ½ cup (4 ounces) 25mg
- Cran-grape juice ½ cup (4 ounces) 30mg
- Grape juice ½ cup (4 ounces) 40mg
- Ginger ale 1 can (12 ounces) 12mg
- Root beer 1 can (12 ounces) 5mg
- Tea, brewed 1 cup (8 ounces) 85mg
- Tea, instant 1 cup (8 ounces) 50mg
- Tea, herbal 1 cup (8 ounces) 20mg
- Crystal Light 1 cup (8 ounces) 65mg
- Nectar, apricot ½ cup (4 ounces) 140mg
- Nectar, peach ½ cup (4 ounces) 50mg
- Nectar, pear ½ cup (4 ounces) 40mg
3: Other Foods High in Potassium
Coming Soon
