Coffee vs tea for gout

GoutSafe grades coffee A and black tea A. The food itself doesn't separate them. Both carry very little purine and no fructose. Among the products we grade, 5 of 11 coffee products rate Good against 8 of 9 black 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.

CoffeeBlack tea
GoutSafe gradeAGood WhyAGood Why
Serving240 g240 g
Purine per servingunder 1 mgunder 1 mg
Fructose per serving0 g0 g
Fructose per 100 g0 g0 g
Products rated Good (A or B)5 of 118 of 9

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 black tea

Great Value Black tea, front of pack
AGood

Great Value

Black tea

Made from one food: tea

All 9 black 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.