RE: Bananas (K-40)

["Lamothe, Emelie" <lamothee@aecl.ca>]

Bananas are common and eaten in vast quantities.  I think that a lot more
people  associate potassium with bananas than with nuts (allergies), beans
(terrible gas), meat (vegetarians don't eat it) and a lot of other things.  

Many of my relatives where told by their MDs to eat more bananas in order to
increase their K levels rather than take some obnoxious tasting liquid
(K-lyte ???) or to eat bananas since it was a wholesome "natural" source of
K to help them not bruise as much.

Emelie Lamothe
lamothee@aecl.ca

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> From: 	Mike McNaughton[SMTP:mcnaught@lanl.gov]
> Sent: 	Thursday, July 30, 1998 4:05 PM
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> Subject: 	Re: Bananas (K-40)
> 
> Why do we select bananas as our K-40 example? Most food (except sugar and
> salt) has from about 1/3 to twice the concentration of K-40 as bananas.
> Meats have about the same K-40 as bananas; nuts and beans have more K-40
> than bananas.
> 
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> mike (mcnaught@LANL.GOV)
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