"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
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> Steve Pope > wrote:
>
>>Previously, I posted a list of purine content vs. protein content
>>for various foods and I will see if I can locate that and re-post.
>
> I can't find my previous post in google archives but my memory
> of the result was as follows:
>
> Milk and egg whites are purine-free protein.
>
> Whole grains, legumes, soy and eggs have some purines, relative
> to the amount of protein.
>
> Beef, lamb, tuna have somewhat more relative level of purine.
>
> Chicken has the higher purine levels per protein gram. White
> meat chicken is worse than leg meat.
>
>
> I will try to compile more accurate data and post it. Maddeningly,
> the USDA nutrition database does not list purine content,
> making this task more difficult.

Oh dear. I did buy some tofu today. Not sure what I intend to do with it.