Purine content of quinoa?

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:10:10 +0000 (UTC), [email protected]
(Steve Pope) wrote:

Everything has purines, steve. If you went by that alone you'd never
eat anything again. It's a grain, albeit and old one, so put it in
the grain category.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
sf wrote:




Sorry, that is not true.


Logically I agree it's like a grain (it actually is a fruit) and may have
a purine/protein ratio similar to other culinary grains, but I would
like a more definite number.


Steve
 
Steve Pope wrote:


Maybe in here:
Bowes & Church's Food Values of Portions Commonly Used, 19th edition,
J.A.T. Pennington, RD and J.S. Douglass, RD
 
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http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?dbid=142&tname=foodspice

Quinoa is not a commonly allergenic food and is not known to contain
measurable amounts of purines. However, like all members of the
Amaranthaceae-Chenopodiaceae plant family, quinoa does contain oxalates. The
oxalate content of quinoa ranges widely, but even the lower end of the
oxalate range puts quinoa on the caution or avoidance list for an
oxalate-restricted diet.
 
Paul M. Cook wrote:


Paul -- thanks. I had already run across that particular statement,
however it's a little vague... "not known to contain..." doesn't point
at an actual measurement.


Steve
 
ImStillMags wrote:


Correct


There's no such thing as a purine or uric acid allergy. These
substances are not proteins.



Hmm. I don't think their categories of low and high purine foods are very
accurate, and they are conflating high-fat and high-purine ingredients
in a way that makes no immediate sense. At a minimum they are not
giving us the logic behind their statements.


Steve
 
sf wrote:

Quinoa is a grain in the sense that it is a seed crop with small seeds
that are often ground. It's not a cereal grain because it's not a type
of grass. Buckwheat works the same way.

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?dbid=142&tname=foodspice

Individual Concerns

Quinoa is not a commonly allergenic food and is not known to contain
measurable amounts of purines. However, like all members of the
Amaranthaceae-Chenopodiaceae plant family, quinoa does contain
oxalates. The oxalate content of quinoa ranges widely, but even the
lower end of the oxalate range puts quinoa on the caution or avoidance
list for an oxalate-restricted diet.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/343073-the-nutritional-content-of-quinoa/

Listed as having no purines.

http://www.examiner.com/healthy-living-in-fort-worth/friday-s-food-quinoa

This article has a photograph of quinoa plants showing they are not
grasses.

http://www.goutcure.com/goutcausfood.html

Discussion of foods that cause acid or base, something having to do with
gout. It lists quinoa near neutral slightly causing base. It implies
this is beneficial to folks with gout.
 
ImStillMags wrote:


Thanks but, dude, I'm specificaly looking for a numerical
number for the purine content of quinoa. Not general-purpose
gout-diet websites. (The one you give is not as inaccuate as
some, but is not wholly accurate either.)


S.
 
Steve Pope wrote:

Or it could mean, "no amount was ever measured in the samples tested and
therefore no continuing testing has been done".
 
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