Citation
Popkin, Barry M. (2015). Sugar Consumption in the Food and Beverage Supply across the Globe.. Goran, Michael I.; Tappy, Luc; & Le, Kim-Anne (Eds.) (pp. 127-138). Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group.
Abstract
Added sugars are found in 75% of all the consumer packaged foods and beverages sold in the USA, suggestive of the large number of ways added sugar is used in our entire supply of processed foods and beverages globally. Fruit juice concentrate is the new "healthy," "natural" added sugar increasingly used in foods and beverages. In the USA and a few other high-income countries, noncaloric or diet sweeteners are increasingly being used to replace added sugars in beverages and foods. This is linked with a decline in total calories from added sugars in the USA and UK. While the bottom 40% of US individuals aged 2 and older consume 120 kcal/day or less, the top two quintiles average 326 and 662 kcal/day of added sugar. Outside of the high-income countries, low- and middle-income country (LMIC) dietary intake and other data suggest major increases in added sugar intake, particularly from caloric sugar-sweetened beverages. Mexico and Brazil are two of the largest consumers of caloric beverages and use added sugar in a wide variety of processed beverages.
Reference Type
Book Section
Year Published
2015
Author(s)
Popkin, Barry M.
ORCiD
Popkin - 0000-0001-9495-9324
