Medicine usually divides food into four grades according to purine content:
The first level is ultra-high purine food.
Purine content is greater than 150 mg/ 100 g, and patients with gout and hyperuricemia should completely avoid these foods.
They include various animal viscera (liver, kidney, brain, spleen, etc.)
Some aquatic products (sardines, anchovies, roes, shrimps, etc.)
Thick broth, thick fish soup, seafood hotpot soup and mutton hotpot soup, etc.
The second level is medium and high purine food.
Purine content is between 75 mg ~150 mg/100 g, so patients should strictly limit it and should not eat it during acute attack.
They include all kinds of animal meat (pigs, cows, sheep, deer, etc.)
Poultry meat (chicken, duck, goose, pigeon, quail, turkey, etc.)
Some fish (perch, carp, crucian carp, eel, eel, etc.)
Crustaceans (oysters, shellfish, mussels, crabs, etc.)
Dried beans (soybeans, black beans, mung beans, adzuki beans, etc.)
What needs special attention here is that other animal foods contain 70-80% water, while dried beans contain only a little more than 10% water. It is unfair to compare foods with different moisture contents. Considering that few people eat dried beans, they are boiled in water or even beaten with water before eating. But if the beans are soaked in water and sorted, they will drop to the next level.
The third level is food with low purine content.
Purine content is between 30 mg and 75 mg/100g.
They include dark green tender leafy vegetables (green leafy vegetables such as spinach and tender stems such as asparagus).
Flower vegetables (white cauliflower, broccoli, etc.)
Tender bean vegetables (edamame, tender pea, tender broad bean)
Dried fungi (all kinds of fresh mushrooms)
Some aquatic products (tuna, crayfish, etc.)
The fourth level is food with low purine content.
The purine content is below 30 mg/ 100 g, so it is almost unnecessary to care about its purine content.
They include milk (milk, cheese)
All kinds of eggs (eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs, quail eggs, pigeon eggs, etc.)
Light leafy vegetables (Chinese cabbage, cabbage, baby cabbage, etc.)
Root vegetables (potato, taro, sweet potato, radish, carrot, etc.)
Eggplant vegetables (tomato, eggplant, green pepper)
Cucumber vegetables (wax gourd, loofah, cucumber, pumpkin, etc.)
A variety of fruits
All kinds of grain (rice, white flour, millet, corn, etc.)
The following is a detailed list of purine content in daily food for everyone.
(Unit: 100g)