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food and drink healthy cooking and eatingCan kidney patients eat zucchini?
When eating vegetables: Choose broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, eggplant, green and wax beans, lettuce, onion, peppers, watercress, zucchini, and yellow squash. Limit or avoid asparagus, avocado, potatoes, tomatoes or tomato sauce, winter squash, pumpkin, avocado, and cooked spinach.
In this regard, what foods should be avoided with kidney disease?
Here are 17 foods that you should likely avoid on a renal diet.
- Dark-Colored Colas. In addition to the calories and sugar that colas provide, they also contain additives that contain phosphorus, especially dark-colored colas.
- Avocados.
- Canned Foods.
- Whole-Wheat Bread.
- Brown Rice.
- Bananas.
- Dairy.
- Oranges and Orange Juice.
In this regard, is squash good for kidney disease?
Potassium. Healthy kidneys keep the mineral potassium in a very tight range in your blood. Some foods (like potatoes and squash) can be cut into small cubes and cooked to reduce the potassium.
A DaVita Dietitian's Top 15 Healthy Foods for People with Kidney Disease
- Red bell peppers. 1/2 cup serving red bell pepper = 1 mg sodium, 88 mg potassium, 10 mg phosphorus.
- Cabbage. 1/2 cup serving green cabbage = 6 mg sodium, 60 mg potassium, 9 mg phosphorus.
- Cauliflower.
- Garlic.
- Onions.
- Apples.
- Cranberries.
- Blueberries.