Annie Chun's

Korean Style Sweet Chili Noodle bowl

CModerate GoutMarket grade · Moderate · #19 of 33 instant noodles we grade

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Purine and sugar, by the numbers

Serving1 Bowl (226 g)
Purine per servingabout 9 mg, at most 24 mg (6% of the 400 mg daily guide)
Purine per 100 gat most 11 mg
Purine before GoutSafe's weightingat most 69 mg per serving
Main purine sourcebread flour
Fructose per serving7.5 g
Added sugar per servingnot on the label
Total sugar per serving15 g

The weighted figure is lower than the one before weighting because GoutSafe counts purine from plants at a fraction of the same amount from meat or fish. The grade uses the weighted figure.

Where the purine comes from

IngredientMatched GoutSafe foodPurine in that food, per 100 gShare of the productPurine at that share, per servingCounted in the worst case
noodles: wheat flour bread flour (A) 26 mg up to 100% 58 mg 13 mg
soy sauce soy sauce (shoyu) (A) 50 mg up to 11% 13 mg 8 mg
sesame oil tahini (A) 37 mg up to 7.1% 6 mg 2 mg
sesame seeds tahini (A) 37 mg up to 5.6% 5 mg 1 mg
roasted sesame seeds tahini (A) 37 mg up to 4.3% 4 mg 1 mg
wheat gluten bread flour (A) 26 mg up to 20% 12 mg under 1 mg
gochujang hot sauce hot sauce (A) 2 mg up to 13% under 1 mg under 1 mg
onion puree onions (A) 2 mg up to 8.3% under 1 mg under 1 mg
garlic puree garlic (A) 17 mg up to 6.7% 3 mg under 1 mg
ginger puree ginger root (A) 2 mg up to 5.3% under 1 mg under 1 mg
toppings: dehydrated cabbage cabbage (A) 3 mg up to 5% under 1 mg under 1 mg
dehydrated bok choy bok choy cabbage (A) 10 mg up to 4.8% 1 mg under 1 mg
dehydrated carrot carrots (A) 2 mg up to 4.5% under 1 mg under 1 mg

Purine values come from each matched food's page on GoutSafe. Shares come from label order: US labels list ingredients by weight, so the second ingredient is at most half the product, and anything after "2% or less" is at most 2%. The worst case fills the most purine-dense ingredients to their full share first, until the shares reach the whole product, then applies GoutSafe's weighting by source, which counts plant purines at 0.3, dairy at 0 and organ meat at 1.3 because they raise uric acid by different amounts. The grade uses that worst case. How we rate.

Why it's rated C

  • Open Food Facts classes it as ultra-processed (NOVA 4), and GoutSafe's rule keeps ultra-processed foods at Moderate (C) or below. Source on GoutSafe.
  • About 9 mg of purine per serving, and at most 24 mg (6% of the 400 mg daily guide), mostly from bread flour. Source on GoutSafe.
  • The panel lists 15 g of total sugars per serving and no added-sugar line.

Estimated from the ingredient label. Labels list ingredients by weight but rarely give amounts, so we grade on the most purine the label allows, which can read stricter than the real recipe and never safer. Sugar comes from the Nutrition Facts panel. How we rate.

What's on the label

Ingredients: NOODLES: WHEAT FLOUR, WATER, TAPIOCA STARCH, SALT, WHEAT GLUTEN, LACTIC ACID. SAUCE: CANE SYRUP, GOCHUJANG HOT SAUCE (WHEAT FLOUR, RICE SYRUP, WATER, RED PEPPER POWDER, SALT, WHEAT, DEFATTED SOYBEAN POWDER, COOKING RICE WINE, KOJI), SOY SAUCE (WATER, WHEAT, SOYBEANS, SALT), WATER, RICE VINEGAR, ONION PUREE (ONION, WATER, CITRIC ACID), CANOLA OIL, SESAME OIL, GARLIC PUREE (GARLIC, CITRIC ACID). SALT, CORN STARCH, SESAME SEEDS, GINGER PUREE (GINGER, WATER, CITRIC ACID). TOPPINGS: DEHYDRATED CABBAGE, DEHYDRATED BOK CHOY, DEHYDRATED CARROT, ROASTED SESAME SEEDS.

Serving: 1 Bowl (226 g). Label from USDA FoodData Central (record 2666489), dated 2023-11-16. UPC 765667100905. This label is over a year old and the recipe may have changed. Check the package.

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