What has more potassium than bananas?
Bananas are New Zealand's favourite fruit and often eaten for the valued potassium they hold. Potassium is a vital mineral and electrolyte that your body needs to maintain normal blood pressure, support healthy nerve and muscle function and transport nutrients to your cells. It is not produced by your body so must be found in the foods you eat.
Watermelon is also a great source of potassium, better than bananas in fact. It also contains vitamin C, vitamin A, magnesium and lycopene and its high-water content will keep you hydrated as we continue to enjoy this extraordinary New Zealand Summer.
Here are 15 other foods that contain more potassium than a banana; avocado, kumara, spinach, coconut water, fresh beans, legumes, tomato paste, butternut squash, potatoes, dried apricots, silverbeet, beetroot, pomegranate, fish and yams. How many of these do you eat? You'll find most of them at Crazy Pumpkin in season.
Watermelons are in season now and you can buy them, Taranaki grown, whole and by the slice at Crazy Pumpkin over the next couple of weeks. Pick a wedge for yourself or a whole watermelon to share (or for yourself!). Some of the jumbo watermelons weigh over 10kgs!
Watermelon is also a great source of potassium, better than bananas in fact. It also contains vitamin C, vitamin A, magnesium and lycopene and its high-water content will keep you hydrated as we continue to enjoy this extraordinary New Zealand Summer.
Here are 15 other foods that contain more potassium than a banana; avocado, kumara, spinach, coconut water, fresh beans, legumes, tomato paste, butternut squash, potatoes, dried apricots, silverbeet, beetroot, pomegranate, fish and yams. How many of these do you eat? You'll find most of them at Crazy Pumpkin in season.
Watermelons are in season now and you can buy them, Taranaki grown, whole and by the slice at Crazy Pumpkin over the next couple of weeks. Pick a wedge for yourself or a whole watermelon to share (or for yourself!). Some of the jumbo watermelons weigh over 10kgs!