[Retracted] Ghanaians Might Be at Risk of Inadequate Dietary Intake of Potassium

Table 1

Estimated 2010-2011 average food supply and potassium composition of 46 edible Food Balance Sheet (FBS) items for Ghana.

Food category	Commonly eaten food/product in Ghana	K (mg)	Kg/cap/yr	K/cap/yr	K/cap/day
Wheat & products	Bread, wheat, white	117.00	17.64	2063.30	5.65
Rice (milled equivalent)	Rice, white, polished, boiled (without salt)	20.10	32.40	651.01	1.78
Maize &  products	Maize, white, stiff porridge (without salt)	40.00	27.11	1084.20	2.97
	Oats, regular and quick, unenriched, cooked with water (including boiling and microwaving), without salt	70.00	0.16	10.85	0.03
Millet & products	Millet, whole grain, boiled (without salt)	124.00	6.11	757.02	2.07
Sorghum & products	Sorghum, whole grain, boiled (without salt)	122.00	8.24	1004.67	2.75
Cassava & products	a	418.58	230.35	96417.12	264.16
Potatoes &	Snack, potato chips, made from dried potatoes, plain	637.00	0.21	130.59	0.36
Sweet potatoes	Sweet potato, yellow, boiled (without salt)	369.04	5.10	1880.25	5.15
Yams	Yam tuber, boiled (without salt)	687.00	147.48	101318.76	277.59
Roots, other	b	313.43	36.99	11593.86	31.76
Sugar (raw equivalent)	Sugar	2.00	11.60	23.19	0.06
Beans/	c	300.49	0.72	215.60	0.59
	d	573.26	0.02	8.60	0.02
Groundnuts (shelled eq)	e	723.74	5.97	4317.13	11.83
Coconuts including copra	f	379.88	5.86	2224.17	6.09
Tomatoes & products	g	616.00	22.66	13955.48	38.23
Onions	h	133.95	6.23	834.49	2.29
Vegetables, other	i	241.43	8.65	2088.33	5.72
Oranges, mandarins	Orange, raw	121.18	21.46	2599.92	7.12
Lemons, limes &	j	114.34	1.67	190.95	0.52
Grapefruit &	k	96.18	0.03	2.89	0.01
Bananas	l	238.40	1.99	474.42	1.30
	m	524.20	131.24	68793.39	188.48
Apples and	n	101.00	1.03	103.53	0.28
Pineapples and products	Pineapple, pulp, raw	104.65	0.99	103.61	0.28
Fruits, other	o	151.06	12.89	1946.39	5.33
Coffee &	Coffee, instant, powder	3640.00	0.06	200.20	0.55
Cocoa beans &	Beverages, cocoa mix, powder	712.00	3.68	2616.60	7.17
Tea	Tea, infusion	18.00	0.05	0.90	0.002
Spices,	Spices, mix, ground	1040.00	0.05	52.00	0.14
Beer	p	31.33	4.31	135.05	0.37
Beverages, fermented	Ovaltine beverage with skimmed milk (without sugar; fortified)	204.00	14.05	2866.20	7.85
Pigmeat	Pork, meat, approx. 40% fat, boiled (without salt)	230.77	1.04	240.00	0.66
Bovine Meat	Beef, meat, 15–20% fat, (without salt)	254.00	1.23	312.42	0.86
Mutton & goat meat	Goat, meat, boiled (without salt)	316.04	1.75	553.08	1.52
Poultry meat	Chicken, light meat, flesh and skin, boiled (without salt)	128.00	7.09	906.88	2.48
Meat, other	Game meat, dried	923.00	4.86	4481.17	12.28
	q	114.50	0.02	2.29	0.01
Butter, ghee	Cheddar	82.30	0.10	7.82	0.02
Fats, animals, raw	Margarine, fortified	18.00	0.20	3.60	0.01
Eggs	r	133.64	1.17	156.36	0.43
Milk excluding butter	Milk, cow, canned, evaporated	303.00	8.67	2627.01	7.20
Fishes	s	258.05	6.28	1619.89	4.44
	t	204.00	0.08	16.32	0.04
	u	454.50	0.10	43.18	0.12
Total					908.60

a: cassava, tuber, boiled (without salt) & cassava, tuber, dried. b: cocoyam, tuber, boiled (without salt) & taro, tuber, boiled (without salt). c: beans, liquid from stewed kidney beans; beans, baked, home prepared; peas, edible-podded, boiled, drained, without salt; peas, edible-podded, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, with salt; peas, green, raw & cowpea, boiled (without salt). d: soya bean, boiled (without salt) & soya bean, combined varieties, boiled (Ghana) (without salt). e: groundnut, shelled, dried, raw & groundnut paste. f: coconut, mature kernel, fresh, raw; coconut, immature kernel, fresh, raw; coconut, kernel, dried, raw & coconut water. g: tomato, red, ripe, boiled (without salt) & tomato paste, concentrated. h: onion, raw & onion, boiled (without salt). i: cocoyam, leaves, (without salt); amaranth leaves, boiled (without salt); cabbage, raw; carrot, raw; eggplant, boiled (without salt); garlic, raw; lettuce, raw; okra fruit, boiled (without salt); peppers, chilli, raw; pepper, sweet, red, raw; pepper, sweet, red, boiled (without salt); pepper, sweet, green, raw & pepper, sweet, green, boiled (without salt). j: lemon, raw & juice, lemon, unsweetened. k: juice, grapefruit, canned, unsweetened & grapefruit, pulp, raw. l: banana, white flesh, raw & banana, yellow flesh, raw. m: plantains, cooked; plantains, green, fried; snacks, plantain chips, salted; plantain, ripe, boiled (without salt) & plantains, ripe, fried. n: sweet apple, fruit, raw; juice, apple, canned, or bottled; apple, with skin, raw & apple, without skin, raw. o: avocado, pulp, raw; mango, deep orange flesh; mango, orange flesh, raw; papaya, fruit, ripe, raw & watermelon, fruit, raw. p: beer European (4.4% alcohol); beer, millet (est. 3% alcohol) & beer, sorghum (est. 3% alcohol). q: cream, whipping, 38% fat & cream, 13% fat. r: egg, chicken, boiled (without salt) & egg, chicken, fried. s: anchovy, fillet, steamed (without salt); mackerel, grilled (without salt and fat); mudfish, grilled (without salt and fat); sardine, steamed (without salt); tilapia, grilled (without salt and fat) & tuna, grilled (without salt and fat). t: spiny lobster, mixed species, cooked, moist heat & crab, queen, cooked, moist heat. u: octopus, common, cooked, moist heat & squid, mixed species, cooked, fried. composition was sourced from USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference Software v.2.6.1. and the rest were from the FAO West African Food Composition Table. The K composition is presented as mg per 100 g edible portion.