Canned tuna vs canned salmon for gout

GoutSafe grades canned tuna D and canned salmon C. Canned salmon rates better. A serving of canned salmon carries 150 mg of weighted purine against 239 mg for canned tuna.

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.

	Canned tuna	Canned salmon
GoutSafe grade	DLimit Why	CModerate Why
Serving	113 g	113 g
Purine per serving	239 mg	150 mg
Fructose per serving	0 g	0 g
Fructose per 100 g	0 g	0 g
Products rated Good (A or B)	0 of 32	0 of 10

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 canned tuna

DLimit

Genova

Yellowfin tuna in pure olive oil

Purine: up to 119 mg

DLimit

Kirkland Signature

Albacore Solid White Tuna

Purine: up to 119 mg

DLimit

Wild Planet

Wild Albacore Tuna

Purine: up to 180 mg

All 32 canned tuna products, ranked.

Best-rated canned salmon

CModerate

Echo Falls

Wild Alaska Sockeye Smoked Salmon

Rated like canned salmon, grade C

CModerate

Double "Q"

Pink salmon

Rated like canned salmon, grade C

CModerate

Kirkland Signature

Wild Alaska Pink Salmon

Purine: up to 113 mg

All 10 canned salmon 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.