Crab is not a high-purine food. High-purine foods are those that contain a purine value of more than 150mg per 100 grams of food. Common high-purine foods are large animal offal, some seafood, thick broth, malt, clams, dried scallops, scallops, sardines, swordfish, scallops, salmon, squid, kippered shrimp, shiitake mushrooms, nori, black fungus (dried), soybeans, mung beans, bean sprouts, soybean skins and other foods. Crab has a purine value of 147, which is a medium purine food but is already at the high end of the range approaching a high purine value, and it is recommended to limit consumption. Gout without an attack can be appropriate to eat a small amount, such as an attack period is not recommended to eat, after all, the purine value has gone up to 140 or more, it is easy to induce gout and exacerbate the symptoms of gout.

When an acute attack of gout occurs, in addition to medication control, the diet during the attack should only include low purine foods, and medium and high purine foods should be avoided. Alcoholic beverages (especially beer and liquor) and foods containing more fructose and sucrose are also prohibited. Low purine foods include milk, eggs, grains and cereals, fresh vegetables and fruits.

Diet should pay attention to, avoid overeating, control diet, limit the intake of exogenous uric acid, drink more water, promote the excretion of uric acid, if necessary, take sodium bicarbonate to alkalize the urine in order to facilitate the excretion of uric acid. The use of sodium bicarbonate should pay attention to check the pH of the urine, when the pH of the urine is 6.0 or less, the urine is acidic, and it is necessary to alkalize the urine to make the urine pH 6.2 to 6.9, which is conducive to the dissolution of uric acid crystals, and discharge from the urine. When the urine pH>7.0 is easy to form calcium oxalate and other types of crystals, so in the process of alkalinization of urine to test the urine pH, urine in the appropriate range of pH is conducive to the elimination of uric acid, excretion.

Again emphasize, limit the consumption is not can not eat, can eat but must control the amount of consumption. Although the crab is not high purine food, but also to limit the consumption of, after all, the purine value is not low, to control the diet, limit the exogenous excessive intake, to avoid causing elevated blood uric acid, aggravate and induce gout.

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Summer is coming, I believe that the table will appear again many delicious aquatic products, including crab meat tender and delicious, whether steamed, stir-fried or marinated are very delicious, loved by people.

Here's where the superfan question comes in:Is crab a high purine food? Can people with gout eat it?

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Answer Sneak Peek:

The purine content of crabs is in the middle, theoretically people with gout can is to eat crabs, but must pay attention to the amount of intake.

Nutrition of crabs

Crab is a crustacean, which is a high-protein food. Take sea crab as an example, its nutritional composition is as follows:

From the data in the above table, there is nothing special about the nutrients contained in crabs. However, for people with gout, to determine whether crabs are suitable for consumption, we should not only look at its basic nutrients, but more importantly, how much purine it contains.

What's a purine?

Purine is an organic compound, a colorless crystal with molecular formula C5H4N4. it can be oxidized to uric acid in the body. The pathogenesis of gout is simply due to the accumulation of uric acid in the body, so that the concentration of blood uric acid increases, to a certain extent, it is precipitated in the form of crystals, resulting in joint enlargement and pain [2]. Therefore, if the intake of high-purine food is too much, it will increase to exogenous purine, leading to the elevation of blood uric acid, which will easily lead to the occurrence of gout.

Can people with gout eat crabs?

According to the query [3], the purine content of crab is 138.4mg/100g, which is a medium purine food. Theoretically, inCrab can be consumed appropriately by patients with stable gout, but it should be avoided by all means for patients with acute gout。

[Summary]

Crab is a class of medium purine food. For people with gout, you can selectively intake depending on your own situation. If the gout condition is more serious, in the acute stage, then Chao suggests that it is best not to consume crabs; if it is in remission gout patients, you can moderate intake.

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As the folk saying goes, when the autumn wind blows, the crab feet itch, when the chrysanthemum blossoms, the smell of crabs comes. Chinese food is known far and wide, some time ago, Germany broke out the hairy crab crisis, in fact, the solution to this crisis is very simple. Drag a few cars of Chinese, you can eat the German hairy crabs to extinction. Haha, words return to the real ha.

Crab is definitely a high purine food. So gout sufferers definitely need to control it and it is better not to eat it. Other high-purine foods include animal offal, most seafood, broth, etc. You can refer to my other headline articles.

Suitable foods for gout patients include: green vegetables, moderate amount of fruits, dairy products (especially skimmed milk can lower uric acid oh), eggs (supplement protein, almost no purine).

Of course if the gout sufferer's uric acid has been controlled and stabilized for a long time, and the gout has not flared up for a long time, they can still eat a little bit. It's also fun to share a hairy crab with friends, for example.

In fact, another benefit of eating crabs is to supplement the trace element, selenium. Many studies have shown that tumors, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, arthritis and many other diseases are related to selenium deficiency. Therefore, eating crabs can supplement selenium Oh.

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Strictly speaking gout patients don't eat crab, but in fact there is no absolute can't eat in food, just like diabetes, diabetics can eat cake? It is not necessarily can not eat, if in the stabilization period taste small pieces is perfectly fine, which is the same as gout patients can not eat crab, the answer is, theIt's best to choose not to eat it, but if you do, there's nothing wrong with eating less of it when your condition is more stable.

Most of the crabs belong to the medium-high purine food, there are also medium purine crabs, choose the larger size of the crab purine content will be less.If the gout patient for a period of time the control of the condition is more stable, you can eat less crab once no more than 40g, the amount of small crabs 2 ~ 3 meat weight, avoid eating crab yolk。It is best to avoid crabs if the condition is severe.

In addition, some people think that gout strictly can not eat the food in fact in the condition of more stable time can also eat a small amount, such as shrimp, can eat 1 ~ 2 a meal, some seafood, such as jellyfish, sea cucumbers can be a small amount of food, 1 ~ 2 sea cucumbers, 50g jellyfish. There are soy products, although soy is rich in purine, but soy products due to dilution and heating process, so, purine content will be reduced, such as soy milk, tofu skin, tofu is actually in the purine food, not high purine. There are also fungus food, dry mushrooms and dry fungus should try not to eat, because the purine content is high, but flat mushrooms, enoki mushrooms can be eaten in small quantities.

In addition, a large part of the cause of high uric acid and their own endogenous secretion and into related, and from food intake of exogenous purine is actually only a small part, so, if you want to control the body's uric acid, you should also cooperate with the doctor, appropriate to eat control of uric acid medication conditioning, and eat less high-purine foods to assist in conditioning.