Did the sweetness of beverages change with the Chilean Food Labeling and Marketing Law? A before and after study.

ABSTRACT: There has been a rapid proliferation of policies around the globe to reduce sugar consumption, yet there is little understanding as to whether these policies have led to changes in the overall sweetness of products, which is essential for understanding long-term effects on food preferences and intake. For example, the implementation of Chile's Law on Food Labeling and Advertising led to decreases in the sugar content of non-alcoholic packaged beverages and increases in non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS) use in these beverages. Given that NNS have greater sweetness intensity than sugars, it is unclear what was the net effect of these changes on the sweetness of purchased beverages. Using longitudinal household purchase data (n > 2,000 households), we measured the changes in the sweetness

SUBMITTER: Rebolledo N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9650246 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature