Fish and gout

I have talked about gout before but I have not talked about the types of food which increase the uric acid levels and thus the chance of gout attacks.

I feel I need to write a post about fish and gout because people have mistakenly reached my blog through search engines (my blog title and post content is what got them here).

According to the guidebook my doctor gave me aji (jacks and mackerel), pacific herring, shirauo (icefish and noodlefish) tuna and salmon have the lowest purine content of all fish consumed. So if you have gout but love fish these are the types you should be eating (within reasonable portions, of course).

But whether there is a difference between sushi (raw fish) and cooked fish, I do not know. The guidebook does not differentiate between them, even though it was written in Japanese for the Japanese, the home of raw fish cuisine.