Why does eating Malabar spinach not help reduce uric acid?

Ha Le (According to the Department of Food Safety, Ministry of Health ) - Sunday, August 4, 2024 13:00 (GMT+7)

Malabar spinach is a familiar vegetable in Vietnamese meals. Malabar spinach provides many important nutrients for the body such as sodium, lipids, potassium, fiber, carbohydrates, protein, calcium, iron, many vitamins in Malabar spinach leaves such as vitamins A, B6, B12, C, D.

Just one small bowl of cooked Malabar spinach a day provides enough vitamin A and iron for the body's needs. The ingredients in Malabar spinach promote digestion by adding mucus and soluble fiber, facilitating and reducing constipation.

Malabar spinach is cold, sour, non-toxic, helps with urination, detoxification, beautifies the skin, treats prickly heat, acne, anemia, and heatstroke. Malabar spinach juice can help heal burns quickly, and stewing Malabar spinach with pig's feet is good for people with aching bones and joints.

However, Malabar spinach is rich in nutrients but contains high levels of oxalic acid and purine, so if you eat too much, the calcium oxalate content in the urine will accumulate in the body, easily causing kidney stones. High uric acid levels increase the risk of gout. Therefore, people with kidney stones and gout should limit their intake of Malabar spinach.

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