Can I eat pepper for gout? The answer is yes. In itself, pepper is an additive in the process of food preparation, so it is just a flavoring added ingredient, and you will not be consuming more than one at a time. Tiny amounts of pepper will not have a significant impact on the appetite or eating habits of gout sufferers, which is the first aspect. Secondly, pepper is also a low purine food type, in the uric acid metabolism process of gout patients, will not participate in the process of uric acid metabolism. So for gout patients, there is no problem to eat pepper. Gout patients are due to purine metabolism abnormalities caused by elevated uric acid, and this purine metabolism abnormalities should be advocated to avoid eating high-purine foods. The high purine food is in every 100g of food containing purine components of more than 150mg, this food is usually animal offal, including what intestines, liver, cashews this kind of, seafood food is mainly deep sea pickled products. In daily life is mainly boiled soup, pork, mutton stew after the soup to contain more purine than meat.