Good Food For Gout

We're all searching for good food for gout, but do you know where to look?
Don't get too hung up on purines, look instead for well balanced meals.

In an ideal world, ready made meals would be the best option. After all, if food companies have access to professional nutritionists, then their meals ought to be the healthiest around.

The USDA database holds a very small selection of ready-made meals, and I've included them here, though they are more useful as an aid to understanding pH balance than as a practical selection of good food for gout. You can see how meat based meals become much less acid forming, and even slightly alkalizing by the addition of vegetables and the like. What you cannot see is additives like excess salt, fructose and others that can lower your general health and thus worsen your gout.

If, for convenience, you need to use ready meals, then the best advice I can give is to supplement them with some fresh fruit, vegetables or other fresh alkalizing foods. Study my PRAL food tables introduction, for more information.

Food DescriptionKCalsQuite AlkalineAbout NeutralQuite AcidVery Acid
Acid/Alkali Meals, Entrees, and Sidedishes
Beef Macaroni, frozen entree881.12
Beef stew, canned entree950.28
Beef, corned beef hash, with potato, canned1642.15
Burrito, bean and bean, frozen2780.29
Burrito, bean and cheese, frozen243-1.01
Chicken pot pie, frozen entree2232.02
Chili con carne with beans, canned entree1210.06
Chili, no beans, canned entree1181.74
Lasagna with meat & sauce, frozen entree1271.68
Lasagna with meat & sauce, low-fat, frozen entree101-0.45
Lasagna, Cheese, frozen, prepared1301.35
Macaroni and Cheese, canned entree820.94
NESTLE, CHEF-MATE Chili with Beans, canned entree1660.79
NESTLE, CHEF-MATE Chili without Beans, canned entree1471.47
NESTLE, CHEF-MATE Corned Beef Hash, canned entree1802.63
Pasta with meatballs in tomato sauce, canned entree103-0.15
Pasta with Sliced Franks in Tomato Sauce, canned entree104-1.20
Spaghetti with meat sauce, frozen entree900.64
Spaghetti, no meat, canned75-1.57
Spaghetti, with meatballs, canned107-1.29
Tortellini, pasta with cheese filling30710.06
WORTHINGTON FOODS, MORNINGSTAR FARMS "Burger" Crumbles15010.45
Also see other food tables, listed on my food table description page.

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