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Low-purine dairy that may lower gout risk; low-fat milk is preferred, while sweetened flavoured milk should be limited.
Dairy milk is one of the few animal foods that tends to work in your favour when you have gout. It contains almost no purines, so it adds nothing to the purine load your body has to clear. Better still, population studies repeatedly find that people who eat more low-fat dairy have lower blood uric acid levels and fewer gout attacks.
Milk proteins — casein and lactalbumin — promote uric acid excretion through the kidneys, and the orotic acid in milk may support this too. Gout guidelines commonly list low-fat dairy as a preferred protein source, alongside eggs, nuts and legumes.
Choose skim, 1% or 2% milk over whole milk if you are carrying extra weight, since obesity is a strong gout risk factor. Avoid chocolate milk, flavoured milk, sweetened condensed milk and milkshakes: added sugar, especially fructose, raises uric acid. Plain milk contains no fructose and no alcohol. If you are lactose intolerant, lactose-free milk or plain yoghurt works just as well.
Two to three servings a day is a reasonable target for most adults. Milk supports a gout-friendly diet but does not replace urate-lowering medication, and it will not treat an active flare.
This is general information, not medical advice.