4. Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes are one of the best sources of potassium in terms of pure numbers. A single sweet potato will provide you with an impressive 649mg of potassium.
Sweet potatoes also definitely belong on this list for being ‘healthy foods’. Sweet potatoes are a source of ‘complex carbohydrates’. This is means that they release sugar more slowly than a ‘simple carb’. Simple carbs include the likes of regular potatoes, pasta, and of course anything sweet.
These types of carbohydrates release their sugar immediately into the bloodstream, which causes it to experience a sudden spike. This excess sugar then needs to go somewhere and if you do not use it right away through exercise or exertion, then it will instead be stored as fat.
When you consume complex carbs, those sugars release more slowly into the body – providing a steadier stream of energy and lessening the likelihood that you might store that energy as fat.