Hillshire Farm

Beef Smoked Sausage

DLimit GoutMarket grade · Limit · #25 of 31 sausage we grade

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Purine and sugar, by the numbers

Serving2 oz (56 g)
Purine per servingabout 70 mg, at most 141 mg (35% of the 400 mg daily guide)
Purine per 100 gat most 252 mg
Purine before GoutSafe's weightingat most 141 mg per serving
Main purine sourcelean ground beef
Fructose per serving1.5 g
Added sugar per servingnot on the label
Total sugar per serving3 g

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
beef lean ground beef (D) 252 mg up to 100% 141 mg 141 mg
soy protein concentrate soy protein concentrate (A) 192 mg up to 2% 2 mg under 1 mg
made with beef collagen casing beef roast (C) 125 mg up to 2% 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 D

  • Its main ingredient, lean ground beef, is graded D on GoutSafe, and a product never rates safer than its main ingredient. Source on GoutSafe.
  • About 70 mg of purine per serving, and at most 141 mg (35% of the 400 mg daily guide), mostly from lean ground beef. Source on GoutSafe.
  • The panel lists 3 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: BEEF, WATER, CORN SYRUP, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS: DEXTROSE, DRIED GARLIC, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, NATURAL FLAVOR, SALT, SODIUM ERYTHORBATE, SODIUM NITRITE, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE. MADE WITH BEEF COLLAGEN CASING.

Serving: 2 oz (56 g). Label from USDA FoodData Central (record 2622060), dated 2023-08-31. UPC 044500339055. This label is over a year old and the recipe may have changed. Check the package.

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