According to the purine content in food, we can divide foods into low-purine foods (containing less than 25 mg of purine per 100 grams of food) and medium-purine foods (containing 25 to 150 mg of purine per 100 grams of food). and high-purine foods (containing 150 to 1000 mg of purine per 100 grams of food).

Common low-purine foods

(1) Staple foods: rice, wheat, flour products, starch, sorghum, macaroni, potatoes, sweet potatoes, potatoes, etc.

(2) Milk: milk, cheese, ice cream, etc.

(3) Non-vegetarian food: eggs, pig blood, chicken and duck blood, etc.

(4) Vegetables: Most vegetables are low-purine foods.

(5) Fruits: Fruits are basically low-purine foods and can be eaten with confidence.

(6) Beverages: soda water, mineral water, etc.

(7) Others: sauces, honey. Oils and fats (melon seeds, vegetable oil, butter, cream, almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts), coix kernels, dried fruits, sugar, honey, jellyfish, seaweed, snacks and condiments made of animal glue or agar.

Medium purine

(1) Beans and their products: soy products (tofu, dried tofu, milk tofu, soy milk, soy milk), dried beans (mung beans, red beans, black beans , broad beans), bean sprouts, soybean sprouts.

(2) Meat: poultry and livestock meat.

(3) Aquatic products: grass carp, carp, sea bass, crab, eel, eel, snail, fish ball.

(4) Vegetables: bamboo shoots (winter bamboo shoots, asparagus, dried bamboo shoots), beans (green beans, green beans, kidney beans, cowpeas, peas), kelp, day needles, white fungus, mushrooms, cauliflower.

(5) Oils and others: peanuts, cashews, sesame, chestnuts, lotus seeds, apricots

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High purine

(1) Beans and vegetables: soybeans, lentils, seaweed, and mushrooms.

(2) Meat: liver, intestine, heart, tripe and stomach, kidney, lung, brain, pancreas and other internal organs of poultry and livestock, dried meat, thick gravy, meat fillings, etc.

(3) Aquatic products: fish (fish skin, fish eggs, dried fish, and sea fish such as sardines and anchovies), shellfish, shrimps, and sea cucumbers.

(4) Others: spinach, yeast powder, various alcoholic beverages, especially beer.

Low purine foods can be eaten with confidence, medium purine foods should be eaten in limited amounts, and high purine foods should be banned. Generally, alkaline foods contain relatively low purines, such as mustard greens, kelp, cabbage, radish, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, onions, potatoes, bamboo shoots, peaches, apricots, pears, bananas, apples, etc. You should eat more. And high-purine foods can contribute to high amounts of uric acid. Therefore, it should be avoided as much as possible.

Some of these low-purine foods are also high-fat and high-calorie, such as dried fruits, nuts, animal blood and fats, and high-starch foods such as potatoes, yams, rice, wheat, cheese, etc.