Eat spinach, do indeed lead to stone?

Patients with gout should be strictly controlled dietary intake of purine, which is well-known common sense diet. Many reports in the purine content of spinach is too high and its inclusion in the restricted area, spinach purine content in vegetable ranking in the end is in what position?

 Per 100 grams of spinach Han Piaoling 25 ~ 150 mg, belonging to the middle purine content of food, not the highest. Moreover, the purine soluble in water, such as eating boiled water before re-cooking, about 50% to 90% soluble in water and removed. Good as long as the control of consumption 80 to 100 grams each meal, eating spinach is useful.

 

In addition to gout, there are many diseases regarded spinach blacklisted, the more prominent is the nephritis, kidney stone. Spinach was the most widely publicized is its oxalic acid content, in fact, oxalic acid is not the spinach patent. People daily consumption of green vegetables, chocolate, pecan, orange, plum, etc., all contain oxalic acid.

 

Indeed, and the combination of oxalic acid to form calcium oxalate, but the product is usually discharged with the droppings, as long as drinking plenty of water volume of 2000 milliliters of drinking water for more than a day. To maintain smooth stool, maintaining a day 1 or 2 days a second bowel habits, they do not worry. Moreover, the general public did not get much spinach consumption of such foods that are high oxalate is just garnish. Therefore, do not have to worry about will produce stones. If there is fear, you can also eat some spinach at the same time eat alkaline foods, such as kelp, vegetables, fruits, etc. to promote calcium oxalate dissolved discharge to prevent stones.

 

Studies have shown that oxalic acid in spinach, can affect the body's absorption of calcium, in fact, as long as proper nutrition, a balanced diet to ensure a daily calcium intake from 800 to 1000 mg. Adequate calcium intake, even when combined with the oxalic acid, but also to meet the body's calcium needs.

 

While in the consumption of spinach, as long as the maintenance of adequate water intake, or adequate food alkaline food, acid will be further diluted and metabolism out of the body. At the same time try to avoid food containing a large number of oxalate-rich foods such as almonds, nuts, cocoa, rhubarb and tea and so on can also avoid excessive oxalate.

 

In addition, spinach contains a lot of plant crude fiber, with the promotion of the role of intestinal peristalsis, facilitate bowel movement, and can promote the secretion of the pancreas to help digest. For hemorrhoids, chronic pancreatitis, constipation, anal fissure and other diseases have therapeutic effects.

 

Moderate consumption of spinach, not to shy away spinach, gout patients will be to eat spinach.