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Grape Cranberry Juice Drink From Concentrate

DLimit GoutMarket grade · Limit · #14 of 17 fruit juice (grape, cranberry and more) we grade

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Purine and sugar, by the numbers

Serving8 fl oz (240 ml)
Purine per servingabout 1 mg, at most 3 mg (1% of the 400 mg daily guide)
Purine per 100 gat most 1 mg
Purine before GoutSafe's weightingat most 7 mg per serving
Main purine sourceunsweetened grape juice
Fructose per serving13 g
Added sugar per servingnot on the label
Total sugar per serving25.9 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
grape juice unsweetened grape juice (D) 5 mg up to 50% 6 mg 3 mg
cranberry juice fruit juice (D) 1 mg up to 25% 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 D

  • About 13 g of fructose per serving in a drink. GoutSafe grades drinks at 5 g or more as Moderate (C) and 12 g or more as Limit (D). Source on GoutSafe.
  • Its main ingredient, unsweetened grape juice, is graded D on GoutSafe, and a product never rates safer than its main ingredient. Source on GoutSafe.
  • Up to 3 mg of purine per serving, under 2% of the 400 mg daily guide. Source on GoutSafe.
  • The panel lists 25.9 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: FILTERED WATER, GRAPE JUICE (WATER, GRAPE JUICE CONCENTRATE), SUGAR, CRANBERRY JUICE (WATER, CRANBERRY JUICE CONCENTRATE), FUMARIC ACID, NATURAL FLAVOR, SODIUM CITRATE, ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C), VEGETABLE CONCENTRATE FOR COLOR, CITRIC ACID.

Serving: 8 fl oz (240 ml). Label from USDA FoodData Central (record 2283928), dated 2022-05-23. UPC 031200202987. This label is over a year old and the recipe may have changed. Check the package.

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