High Potassium Food

This high potassium food list shows the common Canadian food with the serving size and the amount of potassium in milligrams.

If you are a foreign trained registered nurse preparing to take the Canadian Registered Nurse Exam use this list to familiarize yourself with Canadian food values.

Go through the list and note any Canadian food you are not familiar with and look them up.

If you want to pass the Canadian Registered Nurse Exam you need to be familiar with the nutritional value of common Canadian food.

food	serving size	amount of potassium (mg)
apricots	10 dried halves	407
Avocados	raw 1 ounce	180
banana	raw - 250 mls	594
beets	cooked - 250 mls	519
brussel sprouts	cooked - 250 mls	504
canteloupe	250 mls	494
dates	5 dried	271
figs	2 dried	271
kiwi fruit	1	252
lima beans	250 mls	955
honeydew melon	250 mls	461
milk	250 mls	407
nectarine	1	288
orange juice	250 mls	496
orange	1	237
pear	1	208
roasted unsalted peanuts	1 ounce	187
baked potato	1	1081
raisins	250 mls	1089
prune juice	250 mls	707
prunes	dried 250 mls	828
spinach	250 mls	839
winter squash	250 ml ( mashed)	896
yogurt (plain)	250mls	579

Salt Substitutes

Salt subsitutes are often purchased by those people who are trying to follow a low sodium diet, however, since they are high in potassium content they should not be recommended to patients who must restrict potassium intake

More information for Internationally Educated Nurses preparing to write the Canadian Registered Nurse Exam

More about Canadian food

a recipe for Nanaimo Bars!

Read about the Canadian Food Label

Read about the DASH diet

Go from this list of high potassium food to the article on a low sodium diet

Current Nursing Shortage

Some provincial health authorities have decreased the number of nursing positions because of funding shortfalls. These are some of the political nuances of nursing in Canada.

The various career sections on health authority websites still show a wide variety of positions, but many of them are not entry level.

This is most likely a temporary situation and all predictions still forcast a nursing shortage for the future.

I will be monitoring this situation over the longer term.

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