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0203/2019 - Availability of sugar quantity information in industrialized foods.
Disponibilidade de informação sobre quantidade de açúcar em alimentos industrializados.

Author:

• Camila Cremonezi Japur - Japur, C.C - <camilajapur@usp.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0513-1758

Co-author(s):

• Dyessa Cardoso Bernardes Assunção - Assunção, D.C.B - <dyessa.cardoso@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4711-7508
• Raíssa Aparecida Borges Batista - Batista, R.A.B - uberlandia, - <raissaborges26@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9928-5872
• Fernanda Rodrigues de Oliveira Penaforte - Penaforte, F.R.O - <fernandaropenaforte@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8483-1562


Abstract:

The objective of this study was to evaluate the availability of information about sugar quantity and identify the position of the sugar in the ingredients list in industrialized foods. This is a cross-sectional study, which analyzed all the processed foods, diet, light and zero marketed in a large hypermarket, which contain the words sugar or sucrose in the ingredients list. The presence of the declaration of quantity and position of the sugar in the ingredients list were recorded after observation of the label. The information about quantity of sugar was also requested to food industries by phone or email. 2200 foods were analyzed, being 2164 (98.4%) traditional and 36 (1.6%) diet, light and zero, in which the declaration of sugar quantity information was observed in only 14.4% and 13.9%, respectively (p = 0.84). Of the 156 companies contacted, only 7.7% (n = 12) provided the requested information. Among the traditional foods, 75.8% have the sugar in the first three positions of the list of ingredients, as in diet, light and zero, 77.8% (p = 0.93). It is concluded that the sugar is the main ingredient in many of the foods analyzed and that the availability of sugar quantity information is low.

Keywords:

Sugars; Industrialized Foods; Nutritional Labeling.

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Japur, C.C, Assunção, D.C.B, Batista, R.A.B, Penaforte, F.R.O. Availability of sugar quantity information in industrialized foods.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2019/Jul). [Citado em 29/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/availability-of-sugar-quantity-information-in-industrialized-foods/17277?id=17277&id=17277



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