Why can't gout patients eat leeks? It is because leek contains purine, which will increase uric acid in human urine, thus causing gout. Purine content is the standard to measure whether a food can be eaten by gout patients, so leek is considered as a vegetable that gout patients can't eat. They think eating leeks will aggravate the symptoms of gout.

In fact, the statement that gout patients can't eat leeks is not accurate, because from the perspective of purine content, every 100 gram of leeks contains about 25-26 mg of purine. From the content point of view, the purine content of leek is relatively low in plants, and it is a food with low purine. Proper consumption is ok, and it will not have much impact on gout. But you can't eat too much leeks. Even if the purine content of leek is not high, eating too much will aggravate uric acid in the body and aggravate the condition of gout. Gout patients must pay attention to eating leeks. It is ok to eat a proper amount of leek, but during the gout attack, try not to eat leek, because leek belongs to hair in TCM theory, so eating leek during the attack will aggravate the pain caused by gout and aggravate the condition.

The vegetables that gout patients really can't eat are mushrooms, bean sprouts and laver. These are vegetables that gout patients must not touch. Because the purine content of shiitake mushrooms is extremely high, each gram of shiitake mushrooms contains about 2 13mg of purine, and one bite of shiitake mushrooms is equivalent to several meals of leeks, so gout patients should try not to eat shiitake mushrooms for health. Bean sprouts have the highest purine content in all plants, and the purine content in each 100g bean sprouts is 500 mg, so no matter bean sprouts or dried beans, as long as they are bean products, gout patients should not eat them.

Porphyra belongs to seafood, and all seafood has high purine content. The purine content of laver is not much lower than that of soybean sprouts. There is a way about laver that everyone especially likes, that is, laver egg flower soup. This dish must not be eaten by gout patients, because purine is very soluble in water, and all purine components in laver are integrated into laver soup. So gout patients can't use laver soup.