Gout is a common disease in modern society. Eating too much high protein food leads to abnormal increase of uric acid in blood, which leads to gout. Gout has become the second largest metabolic disease after diabetes. For gout patients, what should we pay attention to in daily diet?
Gout is associated with abnormal purine metabolism or reduced uric acid excretion. Long term intake of foods with high purine content will increase the risk of gout. Therefore, people with high uric acid must control the intake of purine in their daily diet, and do not eat high purine food during gout attack.
Can gout patients eat bean sprouts?
We all know that soybeans, mung beans contain very high purine, gout patients need to avoid food. So, can bean sprouts made from beans be eaten by gout patients? Some people say that since beans are not suitable for gout patients, of course, bean sprouts should be avoided. Is this correct? Here we have to understand the purines in beans first: firstly, purines are soluble in water, bean sprouts are sprouts grown from beans after soaking in water, and purines will be lost in this process Secondly, purine mainly exists in beans, and the content of purine in bean sprouts is very low. Therefore, gout patients can eat bean sprouts. If you are still worried that eating bean sprouts will affect the uric acid value, you can remove the tooth tip of bean sprouts before cooking to make silver sprouts with better taste; or blanch the bean sprouts and fry them.
In addition, recent studies have found that the regulatory effect of plant purines on uric acid is not as significant as that of animal purines. In addition to gout attack patients try to avoid eating high purine vegetables, people with gout history or family history of gout are not limited by purine content of vegetables, as long as the correct consumption will not increase the level of hematuria and the incidence of gout.
Tips: in terms of the source of plant purine, gout patients should pay special attention to the intake of dried mushrooms, kelp and laver. Because the moisture loss of these food materials after exposure to the sun condenses the amount of purine in the food materials, and these dry goods are mostly used for stew, it is easy to eat purine into the body, so gout patients should limit the intake of such food materials.
Foods that gout patients need to avoid:
1. High fat meat
Too much fat will inhibit the metabolism of uric acid in the body, so gout patients should try to choose low-fat meat and low oil cooking methods, avoid animal viscera, fat meat and seafood with high purine content.
2. Liquor
People with frequent gout attacks should strictly limit alcohol. Many patients with acute gout are caused by drinking alcohol.
3. High fructose food
Gout in addition to control high purine food, there are high fructose content of food. Because fructose into the human body, its metabolism process will transform the substrate of purine synthesis, and then promote purine synthesis, become an important factor in inducing gout.