Table 3.
Number of products with differing levels of sugar in the children’s breakfast cereals (n 636) sampled from supermarkets in five different Western countries, 2013–2018
| Number of products | Sugar content† | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <5 % | 5–10 % | 10·1–20·0 % | >20 % | ||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| Australia | 69 | 3 | 4·3 | 10 | 14·5 | 8 | 11·6 | 48a | 69·6 |
| New Zealand | 41 | 1 | 2·4 | 10 | 24·4 | 2 | 4·9 | 28a | 68·3 |
| UK | 102 | 4 | 3·9 | 7 | 6·9 | 15 | 14·7 | 76a | 74·5 |
| USA | 195 | 2 | 1·0 | 3 | 1·5 | 15 | 7·8 | 175b | 89·7 |
| Canada | 84 | 4 | 4·8 | 8 | 9·5 | 24 | 28·6 | 48a | 57·1 |
a,bValues within a column with unlike superscript letters were significantly different (P < 0·0001).
†
Sugar content is calculated as grams of sugar per 100 g of product and expressed as percentage of the total product.