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Spinach & Gout

Plant purines, nutrition and why spinach is not automatically a gout problem.

Spinach contains purines

But vegetable purines do not appear to behave identically to purines from some animal sources in observational research.

Do not trade nutrition for fear

Spinach provides fibre and micronutrients and current gout guidance does not advise a universal ban.

Use your own repeatable evidence carefully

A suspected personal association is worth recording, but one flare after one meal does not prove cause.