Last updated: June 25, 2026
What’s not to love about a cold salad served in a chilled bowl with your favorite salad dressing? Today’s kidney diet tips will help if you’re following a low potassium diet but love salad greens. As you can see from the chart below, all the salad greens listed are less than 200 mg potassium for a 1 cup portion. Mix and match the ones you like best. The goal is to stay below 200 mg potassium for one salad. If you want a larger portion, select the lowest potassium greens, arugula and green or red leaf lettuce.
| Salad Greens | Portion | Potassium | Phosphorus | Sodium | Protein |
| Arugula | 1 cup |
74 |
10 |
5 |
.5 |
| Butterhead | 1 cup |
131 |
18 |
3 |
.7 |
| Endive | 1 cup |
157 |
14 |
11 |
.6 |
| Green leaf | 1 cup |
70 |
10 |
10 |
.5 |
| Iceberg | 1 cup |
102 |
14 |
7 |
.7 |
| Looseleaf | 1 cup |
108 |
16 |
15 |
.8 |
| Red leaf | 1 cup |
52 |
8 |
7 |
.4 |
| Romaine | 1 cup |
116 |
14 |
4 |
.6 |
| Watercress | 1 cup |
112 |
20 |
14 |
.8 |
Unfamiliar with some of these greens? Go to Cooks Thesaurus , to see pictures.
Salad greens are naturally low in sodium, but the wrong dressing can really boost the sodium content. When selecting a salad dressing buy low sodium commercially prepared dressing. Better yet, homemade salad dressings are easy to make, inexpensive and contain no additives. Try one of these Â鶹Դ´.com salad dressing recipes:
