Most Americans don’t get the recommended 3,400 milligrams of potassium a day for men and 2,600 for women. A small box of raisins provides 320 milligrams of potassium, which is just shy of 10% of the daily value for men and 12% for women. What’s more, you’ll only find 11.2 milligrams of sodium in your box of nature’s candy. The average American eats more sodium than the recommended 2,300 milligrams a day. Too much sodium draws water into your bloodstream, which puts pressure on your blood vessels.
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Many dietary recommendations say you should get all your necessary nutrients from food – but often neglect that this can be very difficult, particularly while satisfying their other demands to each more of X and less of Y.
If raisins are your primary source, which is sort of what the linked article is about, you’d need to eat 10 boxes of raisins per day. Another story I read, suggested eating broccoli for a certain nutrient – but you would have to have eaten 8 cups per day! Still another said to eat cashews, but to meet their target, you’d have to eat so many that it would amount to 2/3ds of your daily calories!
You might already know that bananas are a good source of potassium, but a large banana offers less potassium than that small box of raisins with just 243 milligrams of potassium.
So eat 14 bananas per day?
Are nutritionists daffy? What explains this?
