Intake of Non-Nutritive Sweeteners in Chilean Children after Enforcement of a New Food Labeling Law that Regulates Added Sugar Content in Processed Foods
| Autor: | Guadalupe Echeverría, Yazmín Zapata, Camila Cornejo, Luis Villarroel, Maaike van der Graaf, Victoria Pinto, Ximena Fuentes Martínez, Attilio Rigotti, María Isabel Hodgson, Martje Elbers |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0301 basic medicine
Male Sucralose food.ingredient Acceptable daily intake Dietary Sugars non-nutritive sweeteners lcsh:TX341-641 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Added sugar Article 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound Eating 0302 clinical medicine food Food Labeling Surveys and Questionnaires parasitic diseases Medicine Humans Nutritive Sweeteners Chile Sugar Child No-Observed-Adverse-Effect Level 030109 nutrition & dietetics Nutrition and Dietetics Aspartame business.industry Food additive Artificially Sweetened Beverages digestive oral and skin physiology schoolchildren chemistry Law Food processing Fast Foods Female Food Additives business Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena lcsh:Nutrition. Foods and food supply intake Food Analysis Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Nutrients Volume 12 Issue 6 Nutrients, Vol 12, Iss 1594, p 1594 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2072-6643 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/nu12061594 |
| Popis: | After enforcement of a new food labeling law in 2016, Chile exhibits a greater offer to reduced sugar products with addition of non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS). Many of these products are consumed by children, who are at greater risk of reaching the acceptable daily intake (ADI) of these food additives. The objective of this study was to evaluate the intake levels of NNS in Chilean schoolchildren after the enactment of the aforementioned law. A total of 250 Chilean children 6&ndash 12 years old were surveyed. NNS intake was assessed through a food frequency questionnaire. All children evaluated consumed at least one NNS during the previous month. Sucralose had the highest consumption frequency reaching 99.2%, followed by acesulfame-K (92.8%), stevia (86.0%), and aspartame (85.2%). Aspartame showed the highest median intake, which came mainly from beverages (96%). No children exceeded the ADI of any NNS. Smaller children exhibited a higher body weight-adjusted intake of sucralose, acesulfame-K, stevia, and aspartame (p < 0.05). In Chile, a wide range of processed foods with NNSs is available and all schoolchildren evaluated consumed at least one product containing NNS. However, this consumption does not exceed defined ADIs for any of the six sweeteners authorized for food use in Chile. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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