Tropical Fruits and CKD: Potassium Ratings from Rambutan to Pineapple

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What to know about CKD and tropical fruit

Tropical fruit reads exotic on the shelf and lands friendly in the database more often than not: canned rambutan in syrup runs 42 mg potassium, pineapple sits at 104-127 mg across raw and canned builds, and the fruit-salad mixes rate 131 mg. The exceptions are the dried builds — dried longans climb to 658 mg from the fresh fruit's 266 mg, which is the dehydration effect in one line.

Reading the tropical shelf

The pattern to carry: fresh and canned-in-water or juice tropical fruits rate friendly; anything dried concentrates potassium several-fold, and syrup-pack cans trade a little potassium for added sugar. Guava nectar runs 33-39 mg, which makes the juice aisle's tropical end safer than its citrus end for most stages.

Ratings for tropical fruit potassium kidney disease

Kidney-friendlyFrozen novelties, ice type, pineapple-coconutK 17 · P 9 · Na 35 mgKidney-friendlyPapaya nectar, cannedK 31 · P 0 · Na 5 mgKidney-friendlyGuava nectar, with sucralose, cannedK 33 · P 3 · Na 6 mgKidney-friendlyGuava nectar, canned, with added ascorbic acidK 39 · P 2 · Na 6 mgKidney-friendlyToppings, pineappleK 43 · P 3 · Na 42 mgKidney-friendlyBeverages, pineapple and orange juice drink, cannedK 46 · P 4 · Na 3 mgKidney-friendlyRambutan, canned, syrup packK 42 · P 9 · Na 11 mgKidney-friendlyBeverages, pineapple and grapefruit juice drink, cannedK 61 · P 6 · Na 14 mgKidney-friendlyPapaya, canned, heavy syrup, drainedK 67 · P 6 · Na 9 mgKidney-friendlyBabyfood, fruit, bananas and pineapple with tapioca, strainedK 68 · P 5 · Na 0 mgKidney-friendlyBabyfood, fruit, guava and papaya with tapioca, strainedK 74 · P 6 · Na 4 mgKidney-friendlyBabyfood, fruit, applesauce and pineapple, juniorK 76 · P 6 · Na 2 mgKidney-friendlyBabyfood, fruit, bananas and pineapple with tapioca, juniorK 78 · P 5 · Na 0 mgKidney-friendlyBabyfood, fruit, applesauce and pineapple, strainedK 78 · P 6 · Na 2 mgKidney-friendlyBabyfood, fruit, papaya and applesauce with tapioca, strainedK 79 · P 5 · Na 5 mgKidney-friendlyFruit salad, canned, water pack, solids and liquidsK 78 · P 9 · Na 3 mgKidney-friendlyFruit salad, canned, extra heavy syrup, solids and liquidsK 80 · P 9 · Na 5 mgKidney-friendlyFruit salad, canned, light syrup, solids and liquidsK 82 · P 9 · Na 6 mgKidney-friendlyPineapple, frozen, chunks, sweetenedK 100 · P 4 · Na 2 mgKidney-friendlyPineapple, canned, extra heavy syrup pack, solids and liquidsK 102 · P 7 · Na 1 mg

Practical tips

• Canned-in-juice beats canned-in-syrup on sugar without moving the potassium column much.
• Treat dried tropical fruit as a different food — the dehydration concentrates potassium several-fold.
• The fruit-salad mixes rate friendly and cover the variety argument in one can.

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