Is Tuna High In Purine? It Is My Favorite Posted: 12-08-05 15:37pm
I hope I can eat this . Thank you
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JYY2
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 05 Jun 2004 Posts: 227
Posted: 12-10-05 13:33pm
Tuna is high in uric acid. Just don't
eat too much of it to jolt the uric acid
level to trigger gout.
Uric acid (ua) content of some foods per
100 grams are: tuna-260 mg, sardines in
oil-480; liver (beef)-550; beef-130;
chicken-120, pork-140; apple-15,
banana-60, broccoli-80, spinach-60,
kale-50, asparagus-25, cabbage 22,
potato-16, lettuce-13, tomato-11, cherry
(sweet)-7, bread-14; beer-8~13.
There are other food and drink that
contains no ua but can raise the blood ua
level, e.G., alcohol, fructose, acidic
foods and drinks, etc.
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alco
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Posts: 13
Cmon. Posted: 12-10-05 15:13pm
Ok, the bottom line is, eat what you want
but dont pig out.
Otherwise if you avoid everything on these
lists, you end up with....
Lettuce.
This whole diet issue is about quantity
more than anything else.
It seems pretty obvious coming from this
gout sufferer.
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JYY2
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 05 Jun 2004 Posts: 227
Posted: 12-10-05 18:13pm
It is obvious that the total amount of
uric acid (ua) we eat is the sum of the ua
in each food in the diet. Unfortunately,
there are so much misinformation out there
that: if you have gout you cannot eat or
have to avoid this and that. By the way,
what did I do wrong in answering joeynhi's
question that "...I hope I can eat this".
Nevertheless, in the opinion of this
former gout sufferer, the philosophy such
as "this whole diet issue is about
quantity more than anything else" alone,
can be detrimental to gout. For example,
a person who gives up beer for the same
quantity of banana is actually eating 5
times as much uric acid as before the
switch. We have to look into numbers,
the ua content of foods, to know how much
ua we are eating.
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alco
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Posts: 13
Posted: 12-10-05 20:18pm
That sux, because beer and bananas go well
together
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stnfreechk
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 1
Uric Acid In Foods Posted: 01-03-08 12:45pm
i realize there hasn't been anything
posted on here for 2 years, but for anyone
who might be reading this now, from what i
gather in my research, it is not uric acid
in food that is a problem, it is high
purines. here's a link with info on that.
i suffer from uric acid kidney stones,
not gout, but the causes and treatments
are for the most part identical. it would
be important to note that complete
elimination of uric acid/purines can also
be detrimental.
