Where to get Potassium?

I've been trying to get enough of ALL vitamins/minerals and my only challenge is getting enough potassium. The suggested amount is 2-2.5 grams which I am finding a difficult time getting by dieting. All other vitamins/minerals I have been able to find in pill form at 100%
RDA but potassium is usually in just 3% RDA amounts.

Anyone know of foods or supplements that can supply near 100% but with minimal calories/carbs?

It was widely reported last month. Here's an article from the Arizona Star
http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/...ticles/9548.php

I don't think so. I'm looking at a recently purchased container of Morton
"Salt Substitute". There is no mention of iodine in the ingredients (potassium chloride, fumaric acid, tricalcium phosphate, and monocalcium phosphate).

The problem with the potassium pills, as I see it, is that they contain very little potassium.

Each 99 mg pill only contains 2.1% of the new recommendation for daily potassium intake (4700 mg). According to the article I read, most women get less than half of the recommended amount each day via diet. So, you would need to take 24 pills to consume the balance of the new requirement.

For calories halfway between celery (6) and avocado (250), try bananas
A medium size one is about 122 calories and can contain 500 mg. of potassium.

Try a "Salt Substitute". It's straight Potassium Chloride, and contains no
Sodium or Iodine. The only non-zero ingredient is Potassium - 610 mg per 1/4 oz serving.

Note: the US National Academy of Sciences recently recommended that people consume a lot less Sodium (no more than 1500 mg per day), and a lot more
Potassium (4700 mg per day, nearly twice the previously recommended level).
They've modified the previous recommendations to help reduce the prevalence of high blood pressure. See http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/...ticles/9548.php for more on this.

As far as I can tell, the only good source of potassium supplements is in salt substitutes. Potassium pills are limited to only 99 mg per pill, for reasons I'm not clear on.

For a list of potassium-rich foods, see http://www.lowcarb.org/potash.html

People rarely need to supplement more than 100 to 400mg, as they get most of their potassium needs from various foods. Potassium supplements aren't available in higher amounts than about 100mg, because too much can be very dangerous, even fatal.

Other easy options are Lite salt (half sodium, half potassium) and no-salt type salt substitutes. The Lite salt is usually very much cheaper than the no salt, though.

Morton brand is iodized.

Try a "Lite Salt". It's 50-50 sodium-potassium chloride. Some folks who can detect an aftertaste with salt substitute can't with lite salt. My
MIL *claims* she can tell with lite salt, but claims aren't facts. The salt shakers at home have held lite salt for years and she has never noticed.

The limit is because of interactions with some old diuretic BP meds.

This is true of my husband as well. His doctor didn't prescribe the potassium initially, but after a few months on Lasix he became quite depressed -- something that had never happened to him before. The doctor then tested his potassium level and prescribed the supplement, and it cleared up the depression immediately. (And in two years after this he has continued to feel fine.)

I don't think so. The National Academy of Sciences recently raised the recommended daily amount of potassium to 4700 mg. According to their study, most Americans get a lot less than this (especially women).