Sweetener Purchases in Chile before and after Implementing a Policy for Food Labeling, Marketing, and Sales in Schools.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chile's landmark food labeling and advertising policy led to major reductions in sugar purchases. However, it is unclear whether this led to increases in the purchases of nonnutritive sweeteners (NNS).

Objectives

The objective of this study was to assess the changes in NNS and caloric-sweetened (CS) products purchased after the law's first phase.

Methods

Longitudinal data on food and beverage purchases from 2,381 households collected from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2017, were linked to nutritional information and categorized into added sweetener groups (unsweetened, NNS-only, CS-only, or NNS with CS). Logistic random-effects models and fixed-effects models were used to compare the percentage of households purchasing products and the mean volume purchas

SUBMITTER: Rebolledo N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10111599 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature