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Marinara Sauce

Marinara Sauce is low risk in a normal serving and a good everyday choice for most people with gout. A typical 125 g serving has about 20 mg of purines, about 5% of a ~400 mg working daily target.

General information, not a substitute for advice from your doctor or dietitian.

This purine value is inferred, not measured directly for this food. See the sources note below for how it was derived.

How much can I eat?

Units
This serving
8 tbsp
125 g
Purine / serving
20 mg
% daily purine
5%
Fructose / serving
2.9 g
Purines in this serving
0 mg~400 mg daily limit
Fructose in this serving2.9 g · 24% of our daily reference

There is a little fructose here. Fructose raises uric acid whatever its source, but at this amount it is a minor contributor next to the purine number above.

How we count fructose

This is the fructose, not the total sugar: it counts free fructose plus half of sucrose, so a sucrose-sweetened product carries roughly twice this much sugar overall.

Evidence: Ayoub-Charette et al., J Nutr 2021 (fructose by food source) · White et al., Am J Clin Nutr 2018 (whole apple vs. a fructose drink, matched dose)

2 tbsp33 tbsp

Even a large serving stays well under a day's purines.

Only part of these purines counts toward gout: the 20 mg here counts as roughly 12 mg toward your gout risk.

Marinara Sauce is an easy choice to keep on hand.

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Why grade A: per 100 g and processing

Per 100 g (for comparison)

Purines Estimated
16 mg/100g
LowModerateHighVery high

Low for gout (< 50 mg/100g).

Fructose
2.35 g/100g
LowModerateHighVery high

Low for gout (< 3 g/100g).

Processing: NOVA 3 of 4 (processed food). How processing affects the grade.

Good to know: Inferred from raw Tomatoes (6.6 mg/100g, USDA Purine DB 2025), scaled ~2.5x for the water loss of a cooked-down tomato sauce.
Diet is part of the picture, not all of it

For most people the body makes the majority of its own uric acid. Food contributes the smaller share. Eating well lowers your risk and helps you feel in control, but for many people diet alone does not bring uric acid down enough to stop flares. Medication often does the heavy lifting. Use these grades to make easier daily choices, and work with your doctor on the full plan.

How did marinara sauce go for you?

Reader experiences, not medical advice. The grade above comes from published data.

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