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Subject: as a dialysis patient i need to specific amounts of potassium in foods

Date: Mon Sep 6 10:50:37 1999
Posted by tom phillips
Grade level: grad (non-science) School: No school entered.
City: san diego State/Province: california Country: No country entered.
Area of science: Medicine
ID: 936629437.Me
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HI!  potassium is usually not listed on product labels, and dialysis 
patients are usually given only "rough" ideas of the amounts of potassium 
in foods. For example, i know that bananas are "high" and that toms fruits 
can be taken in moderation, such as apples and grapes.  I would like to 
know specific amounts of potassium in (more or less) precise abouts of 
food, especially fruit.  How much potassium is in, say, a peach "slice", a 
mango "spear" or a pear "slice."  I have tried contacting Del Monte--as an 
example--but neither their label nor their web "product nutritional" 
listing gives potassium amounts.  Please help!  Tom Phillips


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