Quaker
Lightly salted rice cakes
Made from one food: whole grain brown rice, rated like uncooked white rice
Rice Cakes
CModerate GoutMarket grade · Moderate · #10 of 21 rice cakes and crackers we grade
- Very sugaryGoutSafe ↗
- Ultra-processedGoutSafe ↗
- Main ingredient: yogurt and orange coating, rated like Fresh Orange Juice (C)GoutSafe ↗
- Purine: very lowGoutSafe ↗
- Sugars: 5.5 g
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Purine and sugar, by the numbers
| Serving | 1 CAKE (17 g) |
|---|---|
| Purine per serving | usually under 1 mg, at most 1 mg (0% of the 400 mg daily guide) |
| Purine per 100 g | at most 6 mg |
| Purine before GoutSafe's weighting | at most 3 mg per serving |
| Main purine source | uncooked white rice |
| Fructose per serving | 2.8 g |
| Added sugar per serving | not on the label |
| Total sugar per serving | 5.5 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
| Ingredient | Matched GoutSafe food | Purine in that food, per 100 g | Share of the product | Purine at that share, per serving | Counted in the worst case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rice cakes (wholegrain brown rice, rice) | uncooked white rice (A) | 33 mg | up to 50% | 3 mg | under 1 mg |
| yogurt and orange coating | fresh orange juice (C) | 5 mg | up to 100% | 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
- About 16 g of fructose per 100 g, over GoutSafe's 15 g line, so it can't rate above Moderate (C). Source on GoutSafe.
- 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.
- Its main ingredient, yogurt and orange coating, which GoutSafe rates like fresh orange juice, is graded C on GoutSafe, and a product never rates safer than its main ingredient. Source on GoutSafe.
- Up to 1 mg of purine per serving, under 2% of the 400 mg daily guide. Source on GoutSafe.
- The panel lists 5.5 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: 60% YOGURT AND ORANGE COATING (SUGAR, COCOA BUTTER, WHOLE MILK POWDER, 3% SKIMMED YOGURT POWDER, EMULSIFIER: SOY LECITHIN, 0.15% NATURAL FLAVORING: ORANGE, VANILLA), 40% RICE CAKES (WHOLEGRAIN BROWN RICE, RICE).
Serving: 1 CAKE (17 g). Label from USDA FoodData Central (record 1889450), dated 2021-07-29. UPC 857360004113. This label is over a year old and the recipe may have changed. Check the package.
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