Types and Amounts of Nonnutritive Sweeteners Purchased by US Households: A Comparison of 2002 and 2018 Nielsen Homescan Purchases.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Purchases of foods containing nonnutritive sweetener (NNS) alone or in combination with caloric sweeteners (CS) has increased in recent years in the United States. At the same time clinical evidence is emerging of different cardiometabolic effects of each NNS type.

Objective

To examine the prevalence and volume purchased of commonly consumed types of NNS in packaged food and beverage products comparing 2002 and 2018 using data from nationally representative samples of US households.

Participants/setting

Nielsen Homescan Consumer Panels (The Nielsen Company); 2002 and 2018.

Main outcome measures

Prevalence and volume of foods and beverages purchased containing CS, NNS, both CS and NNS, or neither CS nor NNS, as well as prevalence and volume of product

SUBMITTER: Dunford EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7529721 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature