Diet Chart For reduce uric acid

In some patients, it is seen that if you reduce uric acid, you may be able to reduce blood pressure. This could be a way people develop hypertension. Uric acid builds up in high amount when the body makes too much of it or fails to excrete. The level of uric acid raises in the blood if it doesn't efficiently get disposed. And so, it is very important to keep your diet in check to reduce and maintain its content in the body.

The diet to reduce uric acid include:

1. The liberal fluid intake to keep the urine dilute.
2. Lower fat intake helps too as excess fat reduces normal excretion of uric acid.
3. Although, it is always advised to restrict alcohol to the patients.
4. Red meat, shellfishes, meat extracts, organ meats, whole pulses (Masur, rajmah, chhole, etc.) should be avoided.

The diet to reduce uric acid is simple:

1. Use less salt while cooking.
2. It is always better to use adjuncts like tomato, vinegar, amchur, lime juice, and pepper powder to make the food cooked with less salt palatable.
3. Even you should avoid salted nuts/biscuits, papads, pickles, and chutneys. But, while doing these, you should always keep in mind that overdosing on salt substitutes might cause an electrolyte imbalance.
4. Some foods recommended consuming include fresh cherries, strawberries, bananas, celery, tomatoes, vegetables (including cabbage and parsley), low-fat dairy products, chocolates, cocoa, coffee, tea, etc.
5. Fresh fruits and vegetables are encouraged to increase alkalinity in the blood of the patients.

1. Red Meat: Red meat is one of the certain foods that deliver more uric acid than other foods in your diet. However, poultry and white meats, like pork are also high in the uric acid, so it is best to keep your intake of meats and wild meat to an overall minimum.
2. Organ Meat: Like white and red meat, organ meats also deliver a high amount of the uric acid. Seafood: seafood and fish are off limits during gout flare-ups because they are other main sources of the uric acid (purines) in your diet.
3. Beer & Alcohol: beer is twice as bad for people with gout than seafood and meats. That is because it will raise the production of the uric acid levels in the body and make the body more difficult to remove the excess uric acid.
4. Cauliflower: Cauliflower is a bland vegetable and is rich in the uric acid. They also have nutrients that can reduce insulin resistance that plays an important role in controlling the gout flare-ups.
5. Protein rich vegetarian sources like soya, paneer, dals can also increase the tendency of increasing th blood uric acid levels.
6. Mushrooms: mushrooms are considered to contain moderately high amount of uric acid.

Do's:

1. Eat more vegetables - add them at every meal.
2. Drink plenty of water - you can become hungry when thirsty.
3. Try eating off smaller plates so as to eat smaller portions
4. Exercise between 30 minutes to one hour each day with moderate exercise brisk walking, team sport, cycling or swimming.

Don'ts:

1. Rely on soft drinks, sweetened cereals, cookies and cakes, donuts and pastries, chips, and confectionery to get you through the day.
2. Don't skip meals. Do not snack between meals.
3. Avoid eating quickly. Sit and chew each bite.
4. Don't eat more than two or three pieces of fruit per day.
5. Avoid alcohol and other carbonated beverages.
6. Avoid red meatt, organ meats, sea food.

1. Cereals: Whole grains-rice, wheat,jowar, bajra
2. Pulses: red gram, green gram, black gram, bengal gram Vegetables: all gourds-bitter gourd, snake gourd, ridge gourd, bottle gourd, ivy gourd, ladies finger, tinda,green leafy vegetables
3. Fruits: banana, citrus fruits-orange, mousambi, grape fruit, lemon; berries-strawberry, blueberry, black berry; cranberry, cherries, papaya, pineapple.
4. Milk and milk products: low fat milk, low fat curd.
5. Other beverages: coffee, green tea.
6. Fish: salmon.
7. Oil: 2 tbsp (30ml)
8. Sugar: 2 tsp (10gm)