Less than 2% of adults in the US consume enough potassium. Here's how to avoid a potassium deficiency with foods like sweet potatoes and bananas.

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Potassium does more in the body than you know. This important electrolyte helps maintain overall fluid balance in the body, keeps your kidneys functioning properly, enables optimal nerve function, and ...

What is potassium? Aside from the broad strokes knowledge you may know, like it's naturally found in bananas and it's great post-workout when you've worked up a good sweat. Do you really know what ...

When it comes to healthy plant growth, potassium is one of the three essential nutrients (along with nitrogen and phosphorus). While all plants need this supplement, quite a few benefit from larger ...

1. Effects of potassium deficiency were studied in sunflower plants grown in sand cultures. The first symptom observed was a deeper-green color of the leaves. Later, lower leaves became chlorotic, the ...

University of Illinois crop specialist Fabian Fernandez says over the last two weeks he’s observed several fields and received numerous reports of potassium (K) deficiency symptoms in corn and soybean ...

Potassium is the most important yield-limiting nutrient in soybeans, and the plants can suffer a deficiency of it at multiple stages of growth. A new video produced by the University of Arkansas ...

When it comes to stressed corn plants, pictures can help explain what you’re seeing in the field better than the proverbially thousand words – especially this time of year, says Ken Ferrie, Farm ...