Can gout patients eat bee pupae?

Since there is currently no good cure for gout, stabilizing the condition is a top priority. The biggest factor affecting the condition is diet, and eating certain foods can cause very serious consequences. Bee pupae are a highly nutritious food. When patients come into contact with bee pupae, they worry that it may affect their condition. So, can people with gout eat bee pupae? Let’s take a closer look below.

People with gout and hyperuricemia should avoid high-protein foods. Bee pupae have a high protein content and should not be eaten when uric acid is high or gout is acutely attacking.

Nutritional value of bee pupae

Bee pupae, also known as bee fetuses and bee brood, are the metamorphosed bodies of bee larvae that have not yet emerged from the capping chamber. Bee pupae feed on royal jelly, honey and pollen during their development. They are rich in nutritional value, containing protein, amino acids, a small amount of lecithin, cholesterol, plant sterols, vitamins and minerals and other nutrients. They are an ideal health food that is high in protein, low in fat, and contains multiple vitamins and trace elements. According to the information, drone bee pupae contain 20.3% protein, 7.5% fat, 19.5% carbohydrates, 0.5% trace elements, 9.2% ash, and 42% water. In particular, the vitamin A content is much higher than that of beef and chicken and is second only to cod liver oil. The vitamin D content is 10 times that of cod liver oil. It is the leader in the insect food currently consumed by people.

Dietary taboos for gout patients

Avoid spicy condiments

According to current understanding, food condiments such as MSG, soy sauce, chili and spicy condiments, curry, pepper, Sichuan pepper, mustard, ginger, fennel, star anise, etc. are not rich in purine. However, they can all excite the autonomic nervous system and induce acute attacks of gout. Excessive consumption of irritating condiments is not good for gout, so condiments should also be consumed in moderation. Especially chicken essence, which is a combination of nucleotides and MSG. Like MSG, it has no nutritional value except for making it taste delicious. Because it contains nucleotides, it is better to choose MSG for gout patients. Chicken essence contains nucleic acid, and its metabolic product is uric acid, so people with gout should not eat chicken essence.

Avoid foods high in purine

Due to excessive consumption of high-purine foods, purine metabolism is disrupted, causing a large amount of uric acid to be unable to be metabolized in the body, forming urate crystals, which in turn cause gout. In fact, gout, the "imperial disease", is ultimately caused by the "little problem" of "gluttony", because foods high in purine are mostly delicacies such as big fish, meat, seafood, and animal offal. (To put it simply, if you are in the acute phase, it is recommended to eat a vegetarian diet and fast at all foods with moderate purine content. If you are in the remission phase, do not eat alcohol, seafood, or animal offal, and eat everything else in moderation.) Animal offal (liver, intestines, kidneys, brain), seafood (abalone, crab, lobster, salmon, sardines, tuna, carp, bass, trout, cod), shellfish, meat (beef, lamb, duck, goose, pigeon), soybean foods, lentils, spinach, cauliflower, asparagus, mushrooms, thick soup, and oatmeal. By the way, remember to eat less peanuts, as peanuts are high-fat and purine-rich foods.)

Avoid acidic foods

Gout patients have purine metabolism disorders and abnormal uric acid. If they eat too much acidic food, it will aggravate the condition and be detrimental to recovery. Eating more alkaline foods can help replenish potassium, sodium, and chloride ions and maintain acid-base balance. Due to endocrine disorders in patients, alkaline substances are not easily absorbed. It is recommended to drink more soda water containing minerals, which can be absorbed in small amounts under the action of trace minerals to improve the acidic environment in the patient's body.

Patients should drink less soup.

People with high blood uric acid and gout patients should drink more boiled water and less meat broth, fish soup, chicken soup, hot pot soup, etc. The soup contains a large amount of purine, which not only fails to dilute uric acid but instead causes an increase in uric acid.

Avoid smoking and drinking.

This is a big taboo. If you can't quit it, you can only pray to God to help you reduce the acidity...I won't go into details about the reasons. (Some red wine is OK)

Avoid high cholesterol foods

Animal offal (liver, intestines, kidneys, brain), fatty meat, squid, fish, cuttlefish. This is somewhat overlapping with high purine.

hot pot

If you really want to eat this, try to use a small pot instead of sharing a big pot with others. There is generally nothing wrong with eating less meat and more vegetables. If you are a severe patient, it is best not to eat it.