Broad Beans (dried)
Also listed as: Broad beans, dried, raw
Broad Beans (dried) are low risk in a normal serving and a good everyday choice for most people with gout. A typical 130 g serving has about 9 mg of purines, about 2% of a ~400 mg working daily target.
General information, not a substitute for advice from your doctor or dietitian.
Value is per 100g of dry, uncooked broad beans. Cooking rehydrates them and roughly doubles-to-triples their weight, so cooked beans contain well under half this per 100g. Judge a normal cooked serving, not the dry weight.
How much can I eat?
A typical serving is about 130 g, which delivers 9 mg of purines, or about 2% of a ~400 mg working daily target.
Whole fruit is not treated like added sugar here, but the reason is portion, not chemistry: in the one trial that matched the dose, fruit fructose raised uric acid about as much as a drink did. A fruit serving simply delivers less fructose than a glass of juice does. The 2020 ACR guideline does not advise limiting fresh fruit.
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)
Even a large serving stays well within a ~400 mg working daily purine target.
These are plant purines, which research links far more weakly to flares: the 9 mg here counts as roughly 3 mg toward your gout risk.
Figures use the as-eaten (cooked or reconstituted) concentration.
Broad Beans (dried) are an easy choice to keep on hand.
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Why grade A
Low risk in a typical serving. A great everyday choice for a gout-friendly diet.
Per 100 g (for comparison)
Low for gout (< 50 mg/100g).
Low for gout (< 3 g/100g).
Fructose here is a category-level estimate, not a direct measurement for this food.
Processing: NOVA 1 of 4 (unprocessed or minimally processed). How processing affects the grade.
The 35.5 mg/100g above is the dried product. As eaten (cooked and drained) it is about 6.8 mg/100g; the per-serving figure and grade use that.
Eating broad beans (dried) as part of a bigger dish? The Dish Decoder grades the whole plate, ingredient by ingredient.
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