Dried Fruits
The reason why dried fruits are first on the list is due to the high sugar content. As far as regular fruits go, you’ll also want to avoid mangoes and bananas, as they tend to be high in sugar content. Sugar and uric acid have a tendency of making gout worse, or causing people to become prediabetic, which is the beginning of the condition where you might not yet experience symptoms.
As far as whether you can still add it to a regular diet now and again, you can still do so. Dried fruits, while on the list of foods to avoid, are not the worst offenders. They are high in natural sugars, but moderation can help ensure you do not suffer the symptoms of diabetes.
Gout has a habit of ruining a diet due to causing flare ups that can be very painful to manage. Unfortunately, as a result we end up having to avoid the food we’ve been eating for most of our lives. That said, dried fruits are still one of the healthier items on this list, and it’s still healthier than foods high in sugar.
