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A reader got me started on tomatoes ripening, and I am glad for it. Now the tomatoes are all over the vines but green, with another day of rain shutting down the supply of ripening sun. On the other hand, I know ripe tomatoes are tempting for slugs and fur creatures. Putting green ones on the window sill has not worked out very well.
The answer is - ethylene gas from apples or bananas. Sunlight will ripen them from the outside, but they ripen from the inside out using gas. This morning Sassy and I picked a large cardboard box of green tomatoes, put in our banana supply, and closed the lid. A paper bag can be used but where will I find one?
I had an interest in eating more cherry tomatoes - besides the taste. They are high in potassium and low in sodium Table salt tends to increase blood pressure, a problem I have, and potassium tends to lower it. Fast foods are long on sodium, short on potassium. Here are some natural high potassium, low sodium sources:
- Oranges
- Cherry tomatoes
- White beans
- Pork
- Yogurt
- Kiwi
- Peaches and nectarines (also low glycemic)
- Bananas
- Kale
- Red bell pepper
- Broccoli
- Sweet potatoes
- Quinoa
- Avocado
This list is a ration of sodium (first figure) to potassium (second one) in common foods,
- Spinach, 1 cup cooked 11:1004
- Plain yogurt 172:531
- Sweet potatoes 36:475
- Broccoli 1 cup cooked 64:457
- Cantaloupe 1 cup 26:427
- Cherry Tomatoes 1 cup 7:353 Kale 1 cup cooked 30:296
- Orange 1:232
- Grapefruit ½ 0:166
- Orange juice ½ cup 2:232
- Romaine lettuce 1 cup 4:162
- White bread 256:50
- Bacon 2 slices 384:93
- Hot dog 513:70
- Pepperoni Pizza 2 slices 1354:372
I am growing sweet potatoes for the first time ever, and the regular potatoes are done growing. Potatoes are a vitamin pill and comfort food rolled into one.
Mrs. I likes all the high potassium foods on their own merit.
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