Coffee vs green tea for gout

GoutSafe grades coffee A and green tea A. The food itself doesn't separate them. A serving of green tea carries 2 mg of weighted purine against under 1 mg for coffee. Among the products we grade, 5 of 11 coffee products rate Good against 11 of 20 green tea products.

Graded 2026-10-06 from GoutSafe's purine and fructose data. A grade rates a food for a gout-friendly diet, not a person's treatment.

CoffeeGreen tea
GoutSafe gradeAGood WhyAGood Why
Serving240 g240 g
Purine per servingunder 1 mg2 mg
Fructose per serving0 g0 g
Fructose per 100 g0 g0 g
Products rated Good (A or B)5 of 1111 of 20

Purine is GoutSafe's weighted figure per serving against a 400 mg daily guide. The grade also reads fructose and added sugar. Brands differ from the plain food, so a label can move a product above or below its food's grade.

Best-rated coffee

All 11 coffee products, ranked.

Best-rated green tea

Great Value Green tea, front of pack
AGood

Great Value

Green tea

Made from one food: tea

All 20 green tea products, ranked.

How to read this

Both foods are graded the same way: purine per serving, fructose and added sugar go into one score, and GoutSafe's thresholds turn it into A to E. Products are graded from their own labels, so the brand you buy matters as much as the food. How we rate. More comparisons.