{"id":17757,"date":"2022-06-29T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=17757"},"modified":"2022-06-29T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T13:00:10","slug":"can-those-with-gout-eat-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/gout\/can-those-with-gout-eat-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Those With Gout Eat Chocolate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions have been raised about whether eating chocolate hurts those with gout or offers some health benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion stems from a 2018 study that showed that people eating a little dark chocolate or chocolate powder could reduce the amount of uric acid in their blood.<\/p>\n<p>Uric acid is the root cause of gout, a painful type of arthritis.<\/p>\n<p>Many people took that to mean it was okay to eat chocolate, including processed chocolate and chocolate bars.<\/p>\n<p>That presents a problem because this type of chocolate is high in both sugar and saturated fat.<\/p>\n<p>That leads to both weight gain and more uric acid.<\/p>\n<h3>A List of Chocolate<\/h3>\n<p>Gout patients must be clear about the types of chocolate they can eat.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>White chocolate is high in sugar, which is a gout trigger. Additionally, it doesn&#8217;t have the cocoa solids of dark and milk chocolate.<\/li>\n<li>Ruby chocolate has a fruity taste and has been on the market since 2019. It is also high in sugar, the same as white chocolate.<\/li>\n<li>Milk chocolate can be an acceptable chocolate at times if the gout patient has brands with no additional sugars.<\/li>\n<li>Dark chocolate is the version with numerous health benefits like polyphenols and antioxidants. These have anti-inflammatory benefits according to a 2017 study and that can help gout symptoms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, you can&#8217;t eat as much of it as you want because of the sugar.<\/p>\n<p>You can treat yourself with a bit of it.<\/p>\n<p>A better version of this is to choose a brand with high cacao content and low sugar.<\/p>\n<p>One possible solution is to get packaged chocolate covered fruit.<\/p>\n<p>There are varieties in blueberries, raspberries, cranberries and raisins.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to look at the packaging to make sure it is a low-sugar product with natural dried fruit.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to completely do without just because you\u2019re a diabetic.<\/p>\n<p>There are options from the different chocolate options to mixed fruit and chocolate products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions have been raised about whether eating chocolate hurts those with gout or offers some health benefits. The discussion stems from a 2018 study that showed that people eating a little dark chocolate or chocolate powder could reduce the amount of uric acid in their blood. Uric acid is the root cause of gout, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[711],"tags":[712,1588],"class_list":["post-17757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gout","tag-gout","tag-gout-and-chocolate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}