Table 1.
Nutritional composition analysis of beverages from supermarkets in New Zealand (NZ; n 749), Australia (n 1738), Canada (n 740) and the UK (n 930); data collected from labels in January 2015–September 2016
| Number of products | Total energy (kJ/100 ml) | Sugar content (g/100 ml) | Multivariate | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Sugar added* | All products | Sugar-containing products† | All products | Sugar-containing products† | regression analysis sugar content | |||||||
| n | n | % | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | F | P | |
| Carbonated soda | 19·9 | <0·001 | |||||||||||
| NZ | 231 | 189 | 81·8 | 150·6 | 72·8 | 167·2 | 33·5 | 8·4 | 4·3 | 9·5 | 2·1 | ||
| Australia | 312 | 262 | 84·0 | 145·4 | 72·4 | 169·2 | 46·7 | 8·3 | 4·1 | 9·7 | 2·1 | ||
| Canada | 156 | 101 | 64·7 | 122·6 | 89·0 | 171·7 | 48·1 | 7·2 | 5·4 | 10·4 | 3·0 | ||
| UK | 227 | 129 | 56·8 | 87·7 | 79·3 | 124·7 | 68·3 | 4·8¶ | 4·8 | 7·1 | 4·2 | ||
| Fruit-based drinks‡ | 11·5 | <0·001 | |||||||||||
| NZ | 115 | 80 | 69·6 | 178·4 | 68·1 | n/a | n/a | 9·8 | 3·6 | n/a | n/a | ||
| Australia | 322 | 254 | 78·9 | 152·8 | 63·2 | n/a | n/a | 8·5 | 3·5 | n/a | n/a | ||
| Canada | 165 | 126 | 76·4 | 164·3 | 65·9 | n/a | n/a | 8·9 | 3·8 | n/a | n/a | ||
| UK | 207 | 144 | 69·6 | 125·0 | 79·5 | n/a | n/a | 6·6¶ | 4·5 | n/a | n/a | ||
| Fruit juices§ | 3·9 | 0·009 | |||||||||||
| NZ | 206 | 25 | 12·1 | 194·1 | 51·6 | n/a | n/a | 9·8 | 2·9 | n/a | n/a | ||
| Australia | 687 | 42 | 6·1 | 189·3 | 79·8 | n/a | n/a | 9·5 | 4·5 | n/a | n/a | ||
| Canada | 204 | 3 | 1·5 | 203·4 | 50·1 | n/a | n/a | 9·8 | 2·8 | n/a | n/a | ||
| UK | 291 | 6 | 2·0 | 188·2 | 42·8 | n/a | n/a | 9·3 | 2·3 | n/a | n/a | ||
| Water║ | 0·57 | 0·637 | |||||||||||
| NZ | 121 | 35 | 28·9 | 49·3 | 59·3 | 94·8 | 52·2 | 2·5 | 3·2 | 4·8 | 3·0 | ||
| Australia | 295 | 72 | 24·4 | 51·0 | 57·4 | 95·9 | 2·6 | 2·6 | 3·1 | 5·0 | 2·6 | ||
| Canada | 138 | 24 | 17·4 | 31·3 | 52·7 | 95·6 | 48·2 | 1·6¶ | 2·7 | 4·9 | 2·4 | ||
| UK | 109 | 21 | 19·3 | 37·3 | 55·2 | 66·4 | 61·8 | 1·9 | 3·1 | 3·6 | 3·5 | ||
| Sports and energy drinks | 3·9 | 0·010 | |||||||||||
| NZ | 76 | 63 | 82·9 | 126·4 | 81·3 | 150·6 | 67·1 | 6·6 | 4·5 | 7·9 | 3·7 | ||
| Australia | 122 | 103 | 84·4 | 110·3 | 64·5 | 115·4 | 61·7 | 5·8¶ | 2·8 | 6·1 | 2·6 | ||
| Canada | 77 | 63 | 81·8 | 123·0 | 81·0 | 142·1 | 71·2 | 6·7 | 4·4 | 7·8 | 3·7 | ||
| UK | 96 | 63 | 65·6 | 111·1 | 98·5 | 147·2 | 67·4 | 5·2¶ | 4·7 | 7·5 | 3·5 | ||
Includes any of the words ‘sugar’, ‘cane sugar’, ‘honey’, ‘glucose–fructose syrup’, ‘glucose’, ‘sucrose’, ‘fructose’ and ‘high-fructose corn syrup’ on the label.
Includes any product that contains ≥0·001 g sugar on the nutrition information panel (includes products with natural and added sugars). As all fruit juices and fruit-based drinks contain sugar rather than sugar-containing products being a subset as with other categories, data for juices and juice-based drinks were reported for ‘All products’ and reported as ‘n/a’ for sugar-containing products.
Includes all juice-containing beverages where water is listed as the majority ingredient.
Includes all beverages containing 100 % fruit or vegetable juice or where juice was the majority ingredient (and listed first on the ingredient list).
Includes carbonated waters, flavoured waters and coconut water drinks.
Country (countries) identified in post hoc tests as accounting for the significant difference.