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Soft Drink Intake in Europe-A Review of Data from Nationally Representative Food Consumption Surveys.
| Content Provider | Europe PMC |
|---|---|
| Author | Walton, Janette Wittekind, Anna |
| Editor | Byerley, Lauri |
| Copyright Year | 2023 |
| Abstract | Public health interest in reducing the intake of sugar-sweetened soft drinks has resulted in various guidelines and initiatives related to their consumption, together with an increase in availability and sales of low and no-sugars versions. The aim of this review was to gain insight regarding individual-level amounts and types of soft drinks consumed across the lifecycle as reported in nationally representative surveys in Europe. The review highlighted significant gaps and challenges regarding the availability of recent country-specific soft drink consumption data including heterogeneity in categorisations used in reporting soft drinks. Nonetheless, crude estimates of mean intake (across countries) indicated that total soft drinks and soft drinks with sugars was highest in adolescents and lowest in infants/toddlers and older adults. For infants/toddlers, crude mean intakes of soft drinks with reduced/no sugars were higher than soft drinks with sugars. The review also found that consumption of total soft drinks is decreasing with a shift to consumption of soft drinks with reduced/no sugars in replacement of sugars-containing soft drinks. This review provides valuable insight into what data are currently available on soft drink consumption in Europe with heterogeneity in categorisations, terminology, and definitions of soft drinks observed. |
| Journal | Nutrients |
| Volume Number | 15 |
| PubMed Central reference number | PMC10051353 |
| Issue Number | 6 |
| PubMed reference number | 36986099 |
| e-ISSN | 20726643 |
| DOI | 10.3390/nu15061368 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2023-03-11 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). © 2023 by the authors. |
| Subject Keyword | soft drinks sugar-sweetened beverages SSBs diet drinks energy drinks national dietary surveys food consumption free sugars added sugars |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Food Science Nutrition and Dietetics |