why are potassium supplements so low for safety reasons but a banana has like 4200mg?

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Edit: i confused numbers. Google says a medium banana has 422mg but the recommended amount is anywhere between 2000mg and 4700mg

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My potassium drops sometimes and you can’t even get supplements here. I drink a lot of oj and eat leafy greens everyday or else I can’t even walk and end up in the hospital. Too much of it is really bad, but too little is also terrible and can cause organ failure. I just went thru this a couple weeks ago and ended up in a coma for 5 days. My multi vitamins have 0 potassium for whatever reason, but I can tell when I getting low and just eating usually fixes it for a while