Bob's Red Mill

Old Country Style Muesli

AGood GoutMarket grade · Enjoy · #3 of 44 breakfast cereal we grade

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Purine and sugar, by the numbers

Serving1/4 cup (35 g)
Purine per servingabout 3 mg, at most 5 mg (1% of the 400 mg daily guide)
Purine per 100 gat most 14 mg
Purine before GoutSafe's weightingat most 17 mg per serving
Main purine sourcechia seeds
Fructose per serving2.5 g
Added sugar per servingnot on the label
Total sugar per serving5 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
sunflower seeds chia seeds (A) 59 mg up to 33% 7 mg 2 mg
dates medjool dates (C) 35 mg up to 50% 6 mg under 1 mg
barley barley (A) 44 mg up to 17% 3 mg under 1 mg
whole grain oats rolled oats (A) 44 mg up to 14% 2 mg under 1 mg
flaxseed chia seeds (A) 59 mg up to 10% 2 mg under 1 mg
whole grain wheat whole-grain wheat flour (A) 12 mg up to 100% 4 mg under 1 mg
raisins seedless raisins (C) 25 mg up to 25% 2 mg under 1 mg
whole grain rye whole-grain wheat flour (A) 12 mg up to 20% under 1 mg under 1 mg
whole grain triticale whole-grain wheat flour (A) 12 mg up to 13% under 1 mg under 1 mg
almonds almonds (A) 31 mg up to 11% 1 mg under 1 mg
walnuts walnuts (A) 20 mg up to 9.1% 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 A

  • About 3 mg of purine per serving, and at most 5 mg (1% of the 400 mg daily guide), mostly from chia seeds. Source on GoutSafe.
  • The panel lists 5 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: WHOLE GRAIN WHEAT, DATES, SUNFLOWER SEEDS, RAISINS (RAISINS, SUNFLOWER OIL), WHOLE GRAIN RYE, BARLEY, WHOLE GRAIN OATS, WHOLE GRAIN TRITICALE, ALMONDS, FLAXSEED, WALNUTS.

Serving: 1/4 cup (35 g). Label from USDA FoodData Central (record 2423448), dated 2022-12-22. UPC 039978011039. This label is over a year old and the recipe may have changed. Check the package.

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