Dietary Potassium Overview Hypertension Potassium Potassium Consumption in Canada 1

Potassium Consumption in Canada The most recently available data shows that Canadians consume too much sodium and too little potassium.10 This is similar to comparable nations: the National Diet and Nutrition Survey in the United Kingdom and various surveys leading to the U. [...] Department of Health and Human Service’s 2015–2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans show low potassium intake among their populations, driven by diets lacking in fresh fruits and vegetables and high in processed foods, or the spread of the “western diet”. [...] The United Kingdom’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN), in 2013, in collaboration with the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) extensively reviewed the benefits and risks of potassium-based sodium replacers to population health, and subsequently recommended the food industry to consider the same as a means to reduce sodium content. [...] soy) and low-fat dairy products, and low in saturated fat, and integrate natural sources of potassium such as: ▪ Fruits such as apricots, bananas, guava, kiwifruit, and nectarines ▪ Vegetables such as cooked broccoli and spinach, and potatoes ▪ Milk and yogurt, bran cereals, cooked halibut and salmon ● Consciously reduce your sodium intake toward 2,000 mg per day to achieve or maintain healthy blo. [...] • Monitor and publicly report industry compliance at the individual product level with the sodium levels set out in the 2012 Guidance Report for the Food Industry on Reducing Sodium in Processed Foods.12 • Support population-level potassium consumption data collection to enable analysis and recommendation of potassium intake levels to reduce blood pressure.