Pure Leaf
Iced Tea Green Tea Unsweetened
Made from one food: tea
Green tea vs black tea for gout
GoutSafe grades green tea A and black 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 black tea. Among the products we grade, 11 of 20 green tea 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.
| Green tea | Black tea | |
|---|---|---|
| GoutSafe grade | AGood Why | AGood Why |
| Serving | 240 g | 240 g |
| Purine per serving | 2 mg | under 1 mg |
| Fructose per serving | 0 g | 0 g |
| Fructose per 100 g | 0 g | 0 g |
| Products rated Good (A or B) | 11 of 20 | 8 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 green tea
Kirkland Signature
Organic Green Tea
Made from one food: tea
Great Value
Green tea
Made from one food: tea
Best-rated black tea
Tazo
Awake English Breakfast, Black
Made from one food: tea
Great Value
Black tea
Made from one food: tea
Lipton
Black Tea Bag
Made from one food: tea
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.