@Holly Saunders Sorry about that! I did not realize there was a link posted, until I scrutinized more closely. Still, it does not explain the large discrepancy. Frank
@Frank Sanoica Apparently it has more to do with the actual website a person checks than the size of the fruit. Google has a banana at 422 mg. Who knows which one is right? It's very confusing.
Today I learned how Haiti and the Dominican Republic became two different worlds on a single island. (Video is 16 minutes.)
@Gloria Mitchell I know we don't like taking medication unless absolutely have to, hopefully the meds will help get you back to feeling like yourself again. Take care.
I found out how to clean the space on your oven door between the two pieces of glass. You just need a wire coat hanger & rubber band holding in place a piece of cloth or thin sock over the wire handle part. Squirt down with cleaner. Pull out the pan drawer. Lay on the floor. There is an opening UNDER the stove door. You can slide your hanger with cloth right in. I did it today. It was amazing. Daughter said I needed therapy.
Thanks, Good info on the opening. Did you know oven doors come off easily. I'm not sure which is more trouble, getting up off the floor or getting the door back on.
@Frank Sanoica I found more than one source that states 544 mg for a large banana. One source, Livestrong .com: Extra-large bananas, 9 inches or longer, have a whopping 544 milligrams of potassium in them.
@Emma Smith Thank you! While we all know nothing on the 'Net can be taken at 100% correctness, I try to use sources that seemingly ought to be reliable, such as Mayo Clinic. My point was, that if bananas were one's sole source daily for adequate potassium intake, by those numbers 9 would have to be eaten daily, which would add 1080 calories to the diet! Lot of calories for potassium alone. I've used potassium chloride for salt for well over 20 years now, against my doctor's wishes while living in Missouri, gotten NO calories from it, and blood potassium level right where it should be. Ever the rebel-rousing fool, I once bought a 40 lb. bag of potassium chloride in chunk form intended for use as a salt substitute in water softeners, after reading up on it's source in Canada: 99.8% pure potassium chloride. I ground them up into powder when my shaker was low, ate the stuff for years! My wife said I was crazy. I asked her where she thought the folks making "No-Salt" got their potassium chloride? Frank
Most post-workout formulas are pretty much complete when it comes to electrolyte replacement. I outfit a gallon and sometimes 2 gallons of water each day with the electrolytes and then add whatever else I wish to put in it, e.g. branch chain aminos, essential aminos, vitamin C, l-glutamine etc which I buy in bulk form and measure on the scale. The one I am presently using has 180 mg of potassium in just one scoop for a 14 oz glass but to make a gallon I put in 3 scoops. Any more than that and it gets too sweet. It seems a little spendy at about 15 beans for a 12 oz container of it but it’s natural and does the job. Oh yeah, if one looks up the name “Scivation”, the company has a number of products just for hydration purposes. The thing is that I get ALL the necessary electrolytes without any calories, carbs or fats so I do not have to adjust the rest of my diet because of my “drinking habit”.
For all those discussing the different amounts of potassium in foods-- It depends on where it was grown who grew it when it was picked and who's reporting it
I learned Johnny Crawford at 73 has Big Al and real bad. And supposedly is struggling financially because of the disease. I told me hubby.... you could have talked all day without telling me that
To tell the truth, I wasn’t at all aware of who he is. Anyone with Alzheimer’s has a long road ahead but to hear that someone we’re familiar with has it makes it even worse. All that said, I now know who he is and even know that, after I blew up the picture, he wears not only a bow tie, but a clip on bow tie which might be better stated in another thread recently published. Not only did I not know who he is, but that he is an accomplished musician and made the hit charts a few times. He’s had a heckova career and it is indeed sad to read that he’s probably sitting in the seat of past memories instead of making very many new ones.