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| #1 Foods highest in purine |
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| Sweetbreads |
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| Anchovies |
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| Sardines, canned |
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| Liver |
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| Kidneys |
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| Heart |
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| Meat extracts, broths, bouillion |
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| Salmon, canned |
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| Gravies |
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| Scallops |
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| Herring |
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| Smelts |
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| Roe |
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| Yeast |
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| #2 Foods high in purines |
| Bacon |
Meat soups |
| Beef |
Perch |
| Calf tongue |
Pike |
| Carp |
Pork |
| Chicken soup |
Rabbit |
| Cod fish |
Mutton |
| Duck |
Shellfish |
| Goose |
Trout |
| Halibut |
Turkey |
| Lentils |
Veal |
| Liver sausage |
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| #3 Foods moderately high in purine |
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| Asparagus |
Navy beans |
| Bluefish |
Oatmeal |
| Cauliflower |
Oysters |
| Chicken |
Peas |
| Crab |
Salmon |
| Eel |
Shad |
| Finnan Haddie |
Spinach |
| Ham |
Tuna fish |
| Kidney beans |
White fish |
| Lima beans |
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| Lobster |
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| Mushrooms |
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| #4 Foods containing little purine |
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| Beverages, carbonated; chocolate; |
| cocoa; fruit juices; postum |
| Breads, white bread and crackers, |
| cornbread |
| Cereals and cereal products; corn |
| macaroni, noodles, rice, tapioca, |
| refined wheat |
| Cheese of all kinds |
| Eggs |
| Fats (use only amounts allowed) |
| Fruits of all kinds |
| Gelatin |
| Milk in all forms |
| Nuts of all kinds |
| Pies except mincemeat |
| Shad roe |
| Sugar and sweets |
| Vegetables of all kinds except those mentioned above |
| Vegetable and milk soups |
| Vitamin concentrates |
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