Melinjo crackers

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This is *emping melinjo* or melinjo nut crackers. It is a quite popular food in Indonesia, especially on the island of Java. For a traditional snack, melinjo crackers is relatively expensive. While people used to eat it infrequently in the past due to its high price, nowadays they tend to avoid it for a different reason: the fear that it might trigger a spike in their uric acid levels this is because emping melinjo contains a fairly high amount of purines.