What Food Causes Gout?

All around the world, people are asking "What food causes gout?"
Gout is a growing global problem, and people everywhere are concerned that the food they eat will make their condition worse.

At the same time, ethnic foods are becoming more and more popular. I do not know the selection process that USDA uses to select the foods listed below, but it is interesting to note that they are predominantly the acid-producing foods common in western diets.

If you are concerned about what food causes gout, the same rules apply, irrespective of the origin of the food. Use alkaline foods selected from this, or any of the other tables in this series to balance acid foods, so that the overall pH of your meals is alkaline. I've described this in my introduction to PRAL food tables, which you should read before studying this table.

Acid/Alkali Ethnic Foods
Food Description	KCals	Very Alkaline	Quite Alkaline	About Neutral	Quite Acid	Very Acid
Acorn stew (Apache)	95				2.82
Agave, cooked (Southwest)	135		-7.41
Agave, dried (Southwest)	341	-29.29
Agave, raw (Southwest)	68		-9.00
Agutuk, fish/berry with seal oil (Alaskan ice cream) (Alaska Native)	353				1.61
Agutuk, meat-caribou (Alaskan ice cream) (Alaska Native)	258					11.40
Blackberries, wild, raw (Alaska Native)	52		-0.92
Blueberries, wild, raw (Alaska Native)	61		-0.25
Bread, kneel down (Navajo)	195			-0.04
Buffalo, free range, top round steak, cooked (Shoshone Bannock)	146					16.38
Buffalo, free range, top round steak, raw (Shoshone Bannock)	99				9.84
Caribou, hind quarter meat, raw (Alaska Native)	122					12.13
Caribou, rump meat, partially dried (Alaska Native)	261					26.61
Caribou, shoulder meat, dried (Alaska Native)	271					30.64
Chilchen (Red Berry Beverage) (Navajo)	44				0.33
Chokecherries, raw, pitted (Shoshone Bannock)	156		-4.47
Corn, dried (Navajo)	386				3.16
Corn, dried, Yellow, Yankton Sioux Reservation, SD - CY013ER (Plains)	419		-0.65
Corn, white, steamed (Navajo)	386				1.75
Corned beef and potatoes in tortilla (Apache)	224				0.21
Cornmeal, blue (Navajo)	398				6.41
Cornmeal, white (Navajo)	398				3.04
Cornmeal, yellow (Navajo)	384				3.53
Elk, free range, ground, cooked patties (Shoshone Bannock)	143					14.46
Elk, free range, ground, raw (Shoshone Bannock)	103				9.60
Elk, free range, roast, eye of round, cooked (Shoshone Bannock)	151					15.22
Elk, free range, roast, eye of round, raw (Shoshone Bannock)	101				9.24
Fish, halibut, cooked, with skin (Alaska Native)	113				9.31
Fish, halibut, raw, with skin (Alaska Native)	108				8.72
Fish, salmon, chum, dried (Alaska Native)	338					31.67
Fish, Salmon, Chum, raw (Alaska Native)	116					10.11
Fish, salmon, coho (silver), raw (Alaska Native)	145					11.16
Fish, salmon, king (chinook), raw (Alaska Native)	190				8.67
Fish, salmon, king, with skin, kippered, (Alaska Native) - CY040CJ	209					11.69
Fish, salmon, red (sockeye), smoked (Alaska Native)	327					27.14
Fish, salmon, red, (sockeye), canned, smoked (Alaska Native)	206					18.41
Fish, salmon, red, (sockeye), kippered (Alaska Native)	141					12.45
Fish, salmon, red, canned (Alaska Native) - duplicate, do not use	161					14.03
Fish, salmon, red, canned, bones removed (Alaska Native)	161					14.03
Fish, sheefish, dried (Alaska Native)	115					11.34
Fish, whitefish, dried (Alaska Native)	371					33.65
Fish, whitefish, eggs (Alaska Native)	104					13.13
Frybread, made with lard (Apache)	309				5.50
Frybread, made with lard (Navajo)	330				5.00
Melon, banana (Navajo)	21		-2.62
Moose, liver, braised (Alaska Native)	155					11.17
Moose, meat, raw (Alaska Native)	103				9.71
Mush, blue corn with ash (Navajo)	54		-1.22
Mutton, cooked, roasted (Navajo)	234					16.92
Oil, bearded seal (Oogruk) (Alaska Native)	900			0.00
Oil, beluga, whale (Alaska Native)	900			0.00
Oil, spotted seal (Alaska Native)	896			0.00
Salmonberries, raw (Alaska Native)	47		-1.45
Seal, bearded (Oogruk), meat, dried, in oil (Alaska Native)	378					16.93
Seal, bearded (Oogruk), meat, low quadrant, raw (Alaska Native)	194					11.85
Seal, bearded (Oogruk), meat, partially dried (Alaska Native)	270					27.54
Smelt, dried (Alaska Native)	389					35.21
Soup, fish, homemade (Alaska Native)	72				4.60
Squash, Indian, raw (Navajo)	26		-3.98
Steelhead trout, boiled, canned (Alaska Native)	159					10.85
Steelhead trout, dried, flesh (Shoshone Bannock)	382					34.56
Stew, dumpling with mutton (Navajo)	101				4.48
Stew, hominy with mutton (Navajo)	83				3.22
Stew, moose (Alaska Native)	55				1.41
Stew, mutton, corn, squash (Navajo)	103				3.11
Stew, steamed corn (Navajo)	112				3.65
Stew/soup, caribou (Alaska Native)	41				0.32
Tamales (Navajo)	153				3.04
Tea, tundra, herb and laborador combination (Alaska Native)	1		-0.24
Tennis Bread, plain (Apache)	258				6.63
Tortilla, includes plain and from mutton sandwich (Navajo)	237				5.36
Whale, beluga, meat, dried (Alaska Native)	327					35.82
Whale, beluga, meat, raw (Alaska Native)	111					15.22

Also see other food tables, listed on my food table description page.

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