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Oven Temperatures
Fahrenheit (f) - Celsius (C) (Approx)
- 250F - 120C
- 300F - 150C
- 325F - 165C
- 350F - 180C
- 375F - 190C
- 400F - 200C
- 425F - 220C
- 450F - 230C
Measurements & Conversions
Volume Equivalents (Dry)
Us Standard - Metric (Approx)
- 1/8 tsp - 0.5ml
- 1/4 tsp - 1ml
- 1/2 tsp - 2ml
- 3/4 tsp - 4ml
- 1 tsp - 5ml
- 1 tbsp - 15ml
- 1/4 cup - 59ml
- 1/3 cup - 79ml
- 1/2 cup - 118ml
- 2/3 cup - 156ml
- 3/4 cup - 177ml
- 1 cup - 235ml
- 2 cups or 1 pint - 475ml
- 3 cups - 700ml
- 4 cups or 1 quart - 1ltr
- 1/2 gallon - 2ltr
- 1 gallon - 4ltr
Volume Equivalents (Liquid)
US Standard - US Standard (ounces) - Metric (approx)
- 2 tblsp - 1floz - 30ml
- 1/4 cup - 2floz - 60ml
- 1/2 cup - 4floz - 120ml
- 1 cup - 8floz - 240ml
- 1 1/2 cups - 12floz - 355ml
- 2 cups or 1 pint - 16floz - 475ml
- 4 cups or 1 quart - 32floz - 1ltr
- 1 gallon - 128floz - 4ltr
Weight Equivalents
US Standard - Metric (approx)
- 1/2oz - 15g
- 1oz - 30g
- 2oz - 60g
- 4oz - 115g
- 8oz - 225g
- 12oz - 340g
- 16oz or 1lb - 455g
UK Standard - Metric (approx)
- 1oz - 25g
- 2oz - 50g
- 4oz - 100g
- 8oz - 200g
- 12oz - 350g
- 16oz or 1lb - 450g
Monounsaturated Fats - (healthy fatc, liquid at room temperature)
- Avocados
- Olive Oil
- Peanut oil
- Some Safflower oil (high in oleic acid)
Polyunsaturated Fats
- Corn Oil
- Fish (such as salmon, mackerel, herring, albacore tuna and trout)
- Flaxseed or Flax Oil
- Some Safflower Oil (high in linoleic acid)
- Soybean Oil
- Sunflower Seeds
- Walnuts
High-Fiber Foods
Fruits - 1-4g fiber
- Apple raw with skin, 25g
- Applesauce, 3g
- Apricot halves, 1.5g
- Blackberries, 4g
- Blueberries, 1.8g
- Cherries 1 cup, 3g
- Cranberries raw, 2.5g
- Grapes red or green, 2.5g
- Peach 1 large, 2.6g
- Pear raw with skin, 3g
- Pineapple 1 cup, 2.3g
- Raspberries, 4g
- Strawberries sliced, 1.7g
- Tangerine, 1.8g
Vegetables - 1-4g fiber
- Asparagus, 1.4g
- Beans green/yellow, 3.4g
- Broccoli, 1.1g
- Cabbage raw, 1.1g
- Carrots, 1.8g
- Cauliflower cooked, 1g
- Corn cooked, 1.8g
- Peas frozen/cooked, 4g
- Zucchini cooked 1 cup, 1.8g
Breads & Grains - 1-8.5g fiber
- Air-popped popcorn 1 cup, 1.2g
- Barley pearled cooked, 6g
- Bread white 2 slices, 1.6g
- Buckwheat cooked, 8.5g
- Bulger cooked, 4.1g
- Corn grits yellow cooked 1 cup, 1g
- Corn flakes 1 cup, 1g
- Flaxseed whole 1tbsp, 2.8g
- Grape-nuts flakes 3/4 cup, 3g
- Plenta cooked, 1.5g
- Rice brown cooked, 1.7g
- Rice long-grain white cooked, 1g
High Protein Foods
Seafood, Meat, & Poultry
- Beef
- Chicken
- Clams, 5 small or 2 large
- Fish
- Lamb
- Shrimp or scallops 4
- Pork
- Tuna or salmon 1/8 cup or 1oz
- Turkey
Vegetables, Legumes & Nuts
- Almonds, whole 7 or 8
- Beans, canned
- Beans, green and wax
- Broccoli
- Cabbage, green and red
- Carrots
- Cauliflower
- Celery
- Coleslaw
- Cucumbers
- Eggplant
- Greens, mustard, turnip
- Lentils, 1/8 cup
- Lettuce
- Peanut butter or nut butters 2 tblsp
- Peas, green, canned
Breads, Cereals & Grains
- Gagel 1/2
- Bread, 1 slice
- Biscuit or roll, 1
- Bun (hamberger or roll)1/4
- Cereals, cold (cheerios, corn flakes, puffed rice) 1 cup
- Cereals, hot (oatmeal, grits, rice, cream of wheat,farina) 1/2 cup
- Cornbread, homemade, 1 (2 inch) cube
- Crackers (unsalted or graham crackers) 10
- Muffin, homemade 1
- Pancakes or waffles, homemade 1 (4 inch diameter)
- Pasta or rice, cooked 1/2 cup
- Pita bread pocket 1/2
- Popcorn (unsalted) 2 cups
- Tortilla 1
Dairy, Eggs & Soy
- Cheese (hard cheeses such as cheddar, mozzarella, swiss gauda, colby) 1oz
- Cream (coffee-cream, half-and-half)
- Cream soups
- Cottage cheese 1/4 cup
- Edamame
- Eggs, 1 medium, egg whites, or egg substitute 1/4 cup
- Ice Cream
- Milk, whole, 2%, 1% fat free (skim), soy milk
- Pudding and custard
- Tofu 1/4 cup
- Yogurt, plain
Phosphorus In Common Foods
Low Phosphorus - Less than 150mg/servings
- Apple
- Bagel 1 plain (4-inch diameter)
- Barley, pearled, cooked
- Beans, green
- Bread, pita 1 (65-inch diameter)
- Bread pumpernickel, 2 slices
- Bread white, 2 slices
- Butter 1tbsp
- Cabbage
- Cauliflower
- Cereal, crispy rice, 1 cup
- Cheese, brie 1oz
- Cheese, feta 1oz
- Cocoa, unsweetened, 2tbsp
- Cookies, shortbread 4
- Cornflakes 1 cup
- Cottage cheese, nonfat
- Couscous, cooked
- Cream cheese 1oz
- Cucumber
- Duck with skin, 3oz
- Egg white 1 large
- Egg yolk 1 large
- Eggplant
- English muffin, 1 plain
- Figs
- Gelatin, water base
- Ginger ale, 1 can
- Grapefruit
- Grapes
- Frouper
- Homimy grifts
- Ice cream, 10% fat vanilla
- Lettuce
- Milk, soy 1 cup
- Oatmeal cooked 1 packet
- Onions
- Oysters, canned 3oz
- Oysters raw pacific 3oz
- Pasta 1 cup
- Peas split mature boiled
- Plums
- Poppcorn, air-popped, 1 cup
- Pork, spare ribs 3oz
- Radishes
- Rice cakes, 1 cake
- Rice, white, enriched, cooked
- Sherbet
- Shrimp, cooked with moist heat 3oz
- Sour cream
- Tofu, soft
- Wheat flour, white, 1 cup
Medium Phosphorus - 151-250mg/servings
- Beans, black, 1 cup
- Beans, fava, 1 cup
- Beans kidney, 1 cup
- Beans, pinto, 1 cup
- Beef, bottom round, 3oz
- Beef, chuck roast, 3oz
- Beef, eye round, 3oz
- Beef, ground, 70% lean, 3oz
- Beef, ground, 95% lean, 3oz
- Beef, sirloin steak, 3oz
- Black-eyed peas, 1 cup
- Bread, whole-wheat, 2 slices
- Catfish, breaded/fried 3oz
- Cheese, blue, 2oz
- Cheese, cheddar, 1oz
- Cheese, mozzarella, 1oz
- Cheese, provokone, 2oz
- Cheese, swiss, 1oz
- Chicken breast, 3oz
- Chicken, dark meat, 3oz
- Chickpeas, 1 cup
- Chocolate, plain, 2oz
- cod, pacific, 3oz
- Cottage cheese, 1% fat
- Cottage cheese, 2% fat
- Crab, blue, cooked with moist heat, 3oz
- Lamb, kababs, domestic, 3oz
- Lamb , leg roast, domestic, 3oz
- Lamb, New Zealand, 3oz
- Lobster, cooked with moist heat, 3oz
- Macadamia nuts, 3oz
- Milk, canned, sweetened, condensed, 1/4 cup
- Mushrooms, cooked, 1 cup
- Mussels, raw, blue, 3oz
- Peanut butter, 2 tbsp
- Pork boneless loin chop, 3oz
- Pork, lef roas, 3oz
- Raisin brain, 1 cup
- Raisins, seedless, 1 cup
- Rice, brown, cooked, 1 cup
- Shredded wheat, 1 cup
- Shrimp, breaded/fried, 3oz
- Snapper, 3oz
- Spinach, raw
- tortilla, 2 corn or flour (6-inch) diameter
- Turkey, dark meat, 3oz
- Veal, rib roast, 3 oz
- Wheat flakes, 1 cup
High Phosphorus - More than 251mg/serving
- Peanuts oil roasted, 2oz
- Almonds, oil/dry roasted, 2oz
- Baked beans, 1 cup
- Beans small white, mature, boiled, 1 cup
- Beef, liver, cooked, 3oz
- Beefalo, 3oz
- Buttermilk, 1 cup
- Calamari, fried, 3oz
- Cashews, dry roasted, 2oz
- Cereal, bran, 100%
- Cereal, wheat-germ, 1/4 cup
- Cheese, goat, 2oz
- Cheese, parmessan, 2oz
- Cheese, ricotta, part skim
- Cheese, romano, 2oz
- Chia seeds, 1oz
- Chicken, liver, cooked, 3oz
- Clam chowder, New England
- Clams, cooked with moist heat, 3oz
- Corn bread, 1 piece
- Crab, Alaska King, cooked with moist heat, 3oz
- Custart, flan, 1 cup
- Flounder, 3oz
- Halibut, Atlantic/Pacific, 3oz
- Lentile, mature, boiled, 1 cup
- Milk, 1%, 1 cup
- Milk, chocolate, 1 cup
- Milk, evaporated, nonfat
- Milk, nonfat, 1 cup
- milk, whole, 1 cup
- Mussels, blue, cooked with moist heat, 3oz
- Nuts, Brazil, 2oz
- Nuts, pine, 2oz
- Oysters, Eastern, cooked with moist heat 3oz
- Peanuts, boiled, 1 cup
- Peanuts, dry roasted, 3oz
- Peacans, oil/dry roasted, 3oz
- Salmon, canned, pink/red/, 3oz
- Sardines, canned in oil, 3oz
- Scallops, breaded/fried 3oz
- Sole, 3oz
- Soybeans, mature, boiled
- Sunflower seeds, 1oz
- Swordfish, 3oz
- Tofu, raw, firm
- Tuna, light, canned in oil, 3oz
- Veal, cubed, stewed, 3oz
- Walnuts, English, 3oz
- Wheat flour, whole-grain, 1 cup
- Yogurt, low-fat
- Yogurt, skim
Potassium In Common Foods
Low Potassium - Less than 150mg/serving
- Alfalfa seeds, sprouted, raw
- Apple juice
- Applesauce, sweetened
- Bagel, 1 plain, (4-inch) diameter
- Beans, green, frozen
- Blueberries
- Cabbage, shredded, boiled
- Carrot, baby raw, 1 medium
- Cherries, sour canned, in syrup
- Coffee, 1 cup
- Cranberries, dried
- Cranberry juice
- Cranberry sauce, canned
- Eggplant, boiled
- Fig, raw, 1 medium
- Ginger ale, 12oz
- Grapes
- Lemon, 1 medium
- Lime, 1 medium
- Mustard greens, frozen
- Oatmeal, regular
- Okra, cooked
- Onions, raw, diced
- Parsley, raw, 10 sprigs
- Peaches, canned, in syrup drained
- Peppers, sweet, cooked
- Pineapple, pieces
- Plum, 1 medium
- Popcorn, butteredPrunes, dried, 1 prune
- Radicchio, raw, shredded
- Raspberries
- Rhubarb, cooked with sugar
- Rice, white, enriched, 1 cup cooked
- Spaghetti, enriched, cooked
- Spinach, raw, chopped
- Tea, black, 8oz
- Turnips, white, cubed
- Water chestnuts, canned
- Watermelon, pieces
Medium Potassium - 151-250mg/serving
- Apple, without skin, 1 large
- Apricot, halves, 1 medium
- Apricot, in heavy syrup, drained
- Asparagus, boiled, 5 spears
- Beans, green, boiled, 1 cup
- Blackberries, 1 cup
- Broccoli, frozen, 1 cup
- Brussels sprouts, boiled
- Carrots, sliced, 1 cup
- Cereal, all-bran
- Cherries, 10 sweet
- Chickpeas, dried, boiled
- Collards, chopped, frozen
- Corn, yellow, boiled, 1 ear
- Date, dried, 1 date
- Elderberries
- Grapefruit, 1/2 medium
- Grapefruit juice
- Honeydew melon, pieces
- Kiwifruit, 1 medium
- Leeks, 1 raw
- Mustard greens, cooked, 3/4 cup
- Onion, chopped, boiled
- Orange, 1 medium
- Peach, 1 small
- Pear, 1 medium
- Peppers, hot chile
- Peppers, sweet, raw
- Pineapple, canned
- Prickly pear, 1 medium
- Prunes, canned, 5 prunes
- Radishes, raw, sliced, 1 cup
- Raspberries, frozend, sweetened, 1 cup
- Scallions, chopped, raw, 1 cup
- Squash, summer
- Strawberries, whole, 1 cup
- Tangerine, 1 large
- Tortillas, corn, 4 (6-inch) diameter
- Turnip greens, chopped
High Potassium - More than 251mg/serving
- Apricot, 1 cup
- Artichoke, 1 medium
- Avocado
- Bamboo, shoots, cooked
- Banana, 1 small
- Beans, black, mature, boiled
- Beans, dried
- Beans, lima, large, mature, boiled, 1/3 cup
- Beans, pinto, mature, boiled
- Beans, refried, canned
- Beets, cooked
- Cabbage, Chinese, cooked
- Cantaloupe, cubed, 1 cup
- Chard, Swiss, boiled, 1/3 cup
- Chocolate
- Dates, medjool
- Fruits, dried
- Mango, pieces, 1 cup
- Milk, 1%, 1 cup
- Milk, soy, 1 cup
- Milk, whole, 1 cup
- Molasses, 1 tablespoon
- Mushrooms, cooked, 1 cup
- Nectarine, 1 medium
- Nuts, mixed, 2oz
- Orange juice, fresh
- Papaya, 1 small
- Plantain, sliced, cooked
- Pomegranate, 1 small
- Pomegrante juice
- Potatoes, white, baked, 1 medium
- Raisins, seedless, 1.5oz box
- Sapodilla, 1 medium
- Sauerkraut, undrained, 1 cup
- Spinach, cooked
- Succotash, boiled
- Sweet potatoes, boiled
- Tomato, 1 medium
- Tomato paste, canned, 1/4 cup
- Tomato sauce, canned, 1/4 cup
- Water chestnuts, raw
Sodium In Common Foods
Type Of Food - Choose - Avoid & Limit
Vegetables - Fresh, frozen, or unsalted canned vegetables - Canned tomato juice or sauce, canned vegetables, vegetable, juice, saurkraut, pickled vegetables, olives.
Fruit - Fresh, frozen,canned fruit, fruit juices - None to avoid or limit
Breads/Cereals/Starches - Bread, rolls, pitas, tortillas, unsalted crackers, shredded or puffed wheat or rice, plain rice, pasta, noodles - Instant hot cereals, quick breads made with baking powder or baking soda (biscuit, pancake, waffle, muffin mixes), salted crackers or snak items, rice or pasta box mixes with seasoning packets (Rice-A-Roni/macaroni and cheese)
Dairy - Milk, all types (1/2 cup), yogurt, low-sodium cheese - Buttermilk, cottage cheese, processed cheese spread
Meats/Protein - Fresh eggs, fish, poultry, pork, red meat - Lunch meat, ham bacon, sausage, kielbasa, salt pork, corned beef, hot dogs, spam
Snack Foods - air-popped popcorn, no-salt pretzels or tortilla or corn chips, rice cakes, unsalted nuts - Potato chips, any salted snack food, salted nuts or seeds
Herbs, Spices, Seasonings - Fresh and dried herbs and spices (any except those listed in the "Avoid" list), lemon juice, salt-free seasoning blends, vinegar - Table salt, seasoning salt, garlic salt, onion salt, celery salt, lemon pepper, lite salt, meat tenderizer, bouillon cubes. flavour enhancers
Other - Homemade or low-sodium soups, canned food without salt, homemade low or no sodium sauces, marinades, salad dressings, homemade casseroles without added salt, made with fresh or frozen vegetables, fresh eat, rice pasta, unsalted canned vegetables - Barbecue sauce, ketchup, steak sauce, soy sauce, teriyaki sauce, oyster sauce, frozen dinners, frozen convenience foods (chicken nuggets, frozen pizzas, prepared meatballs, lasagnas, etc), canned ravioli/pastas, fast foods
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