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Ranch Dressing & Marinade

CModerate GoutMarket grade · Moderate · #35 of 38 salad dressing we grade

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Purine and sugar, by the numbers

Serving2 Tbsp (30 ml)
Purine per servingabout 4 mg, at most 14 mg (3% of the 400 mg daily guide)
Purine per 100 gat most 45 mg
Purine before GoutSafe's weightingat most 14 mg per serving
Main purine sourcedried yeast
Fructose per serving0 g
Added sugar per servingnot on the label
Total sugar per serving0 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
nutritional yeast dried yeast (D) 847 mg up to 5% 13 mg 13 mg
mushroom extract mushrooms (A) 47 mg up to 13% 2 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

  • 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.
  • About 4 mg of purine per serving, and at most 14 mg (3% of the 400 mg daily guide), mostly from yeast (dried). Source on GoutSafe.
  • The panel lists 0 g of total sugars per serving and no added-sugar line.
  • Yeast extract is one of the most purine-dense ingredients there is, at 847 mg per 100 g dried. Source on GoutSafe.

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: AVOCADO OIL, WATER, ORGANIC APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, ORGANIC EGG YOLK, POTATO STARCH, ORGANIC DISTILLED VINEGAR, SEA SALT, MUSHROOM EXTRACT (TO MAINTAIN FRESHNESS), ORGANIC LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE*, ORGANIC ONION POWDER, ORGANIC GARLIC POWDER, NUTRITIONAL YEAST (INACTIVE DRIED YEAST, RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2]), TAMARIND SEED GUM, SALT, ORGANIC DRIED PARSLEY, ORGANIC DRIED CHIVES, ORGANIC DRIED DILL, ORGANIC BLACK PEPPER, ORGANIC ROSEMARY EXTRACT

Serving: 2 Tbsp (30 ml). Label from USDA FoodData Central (record 2411595), dated 2022-12-22. UPC 863699000146. This label is over a year old and the recipe may have changed. Check the package.

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