Kikkoman

Naturally brewed less sodium soy sauce

AGood GoutMarket grade · Enjoy · #13 of 27 soy sauce we grade

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Purine and sugar, by the numbers

Serving1 Tbsp (15 ml)
Purine per servingusually under 1 mg, at most 1 mg (0% of the 400 mg daily guide)
Purine per 100 gat most 8 mg
Purine before GoutSafe's weightingat most 4 mg per serving
Main purine sourcedried soybeans
Fructose per serving0 g
Added sugar per servingnot on the label
Total sugar per servingnot on the label

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
soybeans dried soybeans (A) 33 mg up to 50% 2 mg under 1 mg
wheat bread flour (A) 26 mg up to 33% 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

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. The label we read has no sugar line, so sugar is not part of this grade. How we rate.

What's on the label

Ingredients: WATER, SOYBEANS, WHEAT, SALT, ALCOHOL, VINEGAR, LACTIC ACID.

Serving: 1 Tbsp (15 ml). Label from USDA FoodData Central (record 2576805), dated 2023-06-29. UPC 041390001079. This label is over a year old and the recipe may have changed. Check the package.

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