TABLE 1.
Numbers and percentage (%) of products containing added sugars according to each of the different added sugar definitions.
| Food category | Total N | US FDA added sugar definition |
WHO free sugar definition |
Comprehensive definition |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| All categories combined | 25,323 | 14,380 | 56.8 | 15,168 | 59.9 | 16,260 | 64.2 |
| Bread and bakery products | 3,000 | 1,958 | 65.3 | 1,945 | 64.8 | 1,979 | 66.0 |
| Cereal and grain products | 1,962 | 794 | 40.5 | 785 | 40.0 | 844 | 43.0 |
| Confectionary | 1,739 | 1,588 | 91.3 | 1,585 | 91.1 | 1,593 | 91.6 |
| Convenience foods | 1,848 | 1,420 | 76.8 | 1,491 | 80.7 | 1,573 | 85.1 |
| Dairy | 3,151 | 1,309 | 41.5 | 1,316 | 41.8 | 1,418 | 45.0 |
| Edible oils and oil emulsions | 530 | 3 | 0.6 | 3 | 0.6 | 4 | 0.8 |
| Egg and egg products | 89 | 2 | 2.2 | 2 | 2.2 | 2 | 2.2 |
| Fish and fish products | 806 | 327 | 40.6 | 333 | 41.3 | 350 | 43.3 |
| Fruit, vegetables, nuts, and legumes | 3,115 | 1,038 | 33.3 | 1,171 | 37.6 | 1,465 | 47.0 |
| Meat and meat alternatives | 1,702 | 1,238 | 72.7 | 1,210 | 71.1 | 1,268 | 74.5 |
| Nonalcoholic beverages | 2,125 | 967 | 45.5 | 1,511 | 71.1 | 1,543 | 72.6 |
| Sauces, dressings, spreads, and dips | 2,796 | 2,026 | 72.5 | 2,115 | 75.6 | 2,328 | 83.3 |
| Snack foods | 1,245 | 948 | 76.1 | 931 | 74.9 | 980 | 78.7 |
| Special foods | 741 | 336 | 45.3 | 346 | 46.7 | 484 | 65.3 |
| Sugars, honey, and related products | 474 | 426 | 89.9 | 424 | 89.5 | 429 | 90.5 |