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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 ,  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 ÑÇÖÞÎÞÂë.com salad dressing recipes:

Basic Salad Dressing

Cranberry Dijon Vinaigrette

Creamy Vinaigrette

Italian Dressing

Oil and Vinegar Salad Dressing

Tarragon Vinaigrette