Patient was educated on choice of foods for consideration on dialysis diet as follows:
- While picking meat, choose to have your meat fresh versus canned/processed/cured/smoked/cold cut deli. Among fresh meat, prefer lean meats of chicken, beef, lamb, and fish, as they are low in salt content compared to fresh sodium rich meat from turkey, pork, and veal. Make sure no extra salt is added to your meat products.
- While picking nuts and seeds, pick the products with the label low salt or no salt added. Select from the products that are raw or roasted.
- While picking fruits, depend on sources low on potassium content, such as, apples, pineapple, pears, peaches, grapes, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and cranberries.
- On vegetables, include string beans, green beans, garbanzo beans, carrots, cucumbers, eggplant, green peas, asparagus, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, celery, corn, mushrooms, onions, and radish for their lower potassium content.
- Observe strict moderation with consumption of dairy products, such as, whole milk, reduced fat milk, almond milk, soymilk, and yogurt due to their rich potassium content. With cheese, you can choose to pick from pepper jack cheese, cheddar cheese, cream cheese, blue cheese, swiss cheese, which are considered healthier choices for patients on low potassium diet recommendation.
