Non-Nutritive Sweeteners in the Packaged Food Supply-An Assessment across 4 Countries.

ABSTRACT: Increased interest among consumers in the reduction of dietary sugar intake has led to the wider availability of food products containing non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS). However, the extent to which NNS are currently being used by manufacturers to sweeten processed food and beverage products, and how NNS may be displacing added sugars as a sweetener is unknown. The current study utilized branded food composition databases from Australia, Mexico, New Zealand and the US to determine the percentage of processed food and beverage products for which there are nutrition data containing NNS and to compare total sugar density (g per 100 mL for beverages and g per 100 g for foods) between products with and without NNS. Ordinary least squares regression at the country-product level was performed to

SUBMITTER: Dunford EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5852833 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature