My first question is does anybody ever actually get the recommended daily intake of potassium/how do you do it? It seems so difficult, especially without consuming too much oxalates.
Which brings up the second question of in your experience, has high oxalate food been an issue/are there ways through diet to avoid issue of high oxalates, for example I’ve been told lemon juice.
On how-to get my daily potassium:Potassium chloride. Mixed in my protein shake.Gives it a taste like subway cookies. But too much is horrible. That is why I only add as much as I am lacking, after I estimated my intake for the day.
The best way to avoid issues of oxalates is to avoid high oxalates foods.
There are reports of people getting oxalates poisoning with amounts easily achieved in a few days of drinking a green juice cleanse. So we’re not talking about astronomical amounts. But its not going to happen in a single meal either.
Oxalates do bioaccumulate though. So even medium to low quantities over time may become too much for your body to detox and begin to collect in your organs, and especially the kidneys (something like >80% of kidney stones nowadays are comprised of oxalic acid).
That being said, if you are going to eat something like spinach that is very high in oxalates, the least you can do is to cook/boil it in water; then dump the water and perhaps pan fry it with whatever you want (so its not just soggy and flavorless) and eat it. That helps to detoxify some of the oxalates, but not all. The worst way to consume it, in terms of oxalates, is raw or in juice (since you use even more volume that way).
Hope that helps.