What’s not to love about a cold salad served in a chilled bowl with your favorite salad dressing? Today’s kidney diet tips will help if you’re following a low potassium diet but love salad greens. As you can see from the chart below, all the salad greens listed are less than 200 mg potassium for a 1 cup portion. Mix and match the ones you like best. The goal is to stay below 200 mg potassium for one salad. If you want a larger portion, select the lowest potassium greens, arugula and green or red leaf lettuce.
| Salad Greens | Portion | Potassium | Phosphorus | Sodium | Protein |
| Arugula | 1 cup |
74 |
10 |
5 |
.5 |
| Butterhead | 1 cup |
131 |
18 |
3 |
.7 |
| Endive | 1 cup |
157 |
14 |
11 |
.6 |
| Green leaf | 1 cup |
70 |
10 |
10 |
.5 |
| Iceberg | 1 cup |
102 |
14 |
7 |
.7 |
| Looseleaf | 1 cup |
108 |
16 |
15 |
.8 |
| Red leaf | 1 cup |
52 |
8 |
7 |
.4 |
| Romaine | 1 cup |
116 |
14 |
4 |
.6 |
| Watercress | 1 cup |
112 |
20 |
14 |
.8 |
Unfamiliar with some of these greens? Go to Cooks Thesaurus foodsubs.com, to see pictures.
Salad greens are naturally low in sodium, but the wrong dressing can really boost the sodium content. When selecting a salad dressing buy low sodium commercially prepared dressing. Better yet, homemade salad dressings are easy to make, inexpensive and contain no additives. Try one of these DaVita.com salad dressing recipes:
