: if Potassium, Calcium, Sodium and Magnesium are metals. How are some foods rich/contain such metals?

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: if Potassium, Calcium, Sodium and Magnesium are metals. How are some foods rich/contain such metals?

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We rarely encounter them in food as pure metals…they’re always combined with other atoms into molecules.

Potassium/calcium/sodium/magnesium are insanely reactive as pure metals, they’ll grab on to whatever else they can find to form other molecules.