Foods That Cause Gout Are Meat, Poultry & Seafood etc.
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Here, you’ll discover the foods that cause gout. But the gout foods to avoid are, unfortunately, very popular. Nevertheless, a gout treatment diet is needed in order for you to eliminate your gout.
Generally speaking, foods that cause gout contain high concentrations of purines. These are natural chemical compounds in your body cells and in your food, which produce uric acid as they metabolize.
But, as you probably know by now, it’s the high levels of uric acid that lead to the formation of uric acid crystals in your joints, and, these cause your gout symptoms. So, as a gout sufferer, you need to reduce the high uric acid in your blood.
And since the purines in your food are a great contributor to the continual production of uric acid, you need to identify which foods are particularly high in purines, and, avoid them in your gout diet.
In general, these come under the headings of red meat, seafood, poultry and legumes. But, there are varying levels of purines across the foods withing these headings.
So the following foods should be eliminated completely from your gout diet:-
- anchovies
- sardines
- shrimps
- consomme
- bouillon
- gravy
- broth
- roe
- mackerel
- herrings
- scallops
- mussels
- mincemeat
- meat extracts
- liver
- heart
- brains
- kidneys
- sweetbreads
- dried legumes
- baker’s yeast
- brewer’s yeast
- yeast extracts
- soy
But be careful not to change your diet too quickly, as a rapid change can actually help RAISE uric acid levels and trigger gout. You can get more information here.
