is now 4.5 grams. (as per a CE I attended last year by a nutritionist)

In our hunter gatherer days, it has been estimated at 7 -8 grams.

The amount of potassium in an OTC supplement is FDA controlled at 99 mg. So OTC supplements can be next to useless.

V8 juice just reformulated their low sodium version.
It has 1180 mg of potassium per 12 oz can. That is equal to just about 11 OTC tablets.

Regular V8 is at about 700mg potassium.

When people don't eat well, or eat alot of junk food they miss potassium typically.

One RX potassium K-Dur 20meq is equal to about a can of V8.

1/2 of a cantloupe is about 1,400 mg!

If you would like a good food resource with amounts of magnesium, potassium, calcium, protein, etc this link is very good:

http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/v...roducts/2357/2
This one for broccoli for example says,
820 mg potassium/280 grm vegetable or one large stalk
58.8 mg magnesium (not bad)

This site also lists foods' inflammatory index!
Broccoli shown, is moderately anti-inflammatory as well.

I love this new site.... it has some really great stuff on it!