Which purine base makes up most of this number?

Guanine — 2.8 mg of the 5.52 mg per 100 g total. The rest is adenine 1.2, hypoxanthine 0.9, xanthine 0.62.

Goji berry

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Fruits

Purine content

5.52 mgper 100 g

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Composition — per 100 g

Purine, total	5.52 mg
— Adenine	1.2 mg
— Guanine	2.8 mg
— Hypoxanthine	0.9 mg
— Xanthine	0.62 mg
Fructose	No data available
Calories	349 kcal

Missing figures are shown as “No data available”; values are copied from the sources below and are never estimated. Laboratory values differ between studies and samples.

Where these numbers come from

Purine total and fractions: Kaneko, K., et al. (2020). Determination of total purine and purine base content of 80 food products to aid nutritional therapy for gout and hyperuricemia. Nucleosides, Nucleotides, and Nucleic Acids, 39(10-12), 1449-57..
Fructose and calories: USDA FoodData Central record #173032.

If you want something similar

Within fruits, the same table also lists Bananas, raw at 3 mg and Avocado, raw at 18.4 mg per 100 g.

From the author

Personal experience of someone living with gout

Five to ten berries a day, steeped in water — it replaced coffee and tea for me and gets me drinking more water. I keep it up during a flare too.

Personal experience — not medical advice. Read the full disclaimer.

Questions

Which purine base makes up most of this number?: Guanine — 2.8 mg of the 5.52 mg per 100 g total. The rest is adenine 1.2, hypoxanthine 0.9, xanthine 0.62.

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