Table 1.
Mean amount of free sugar (g) consumed in children and adults per day during the study period before and after the announcement of the soft drinks industry levy (SDIL)
| Children | Adults | |||
| Pre-announcement* | Post-announcement† | Pre-announcement* | Post-announcement† | |
| Age (years) | 9.5 (5.2) | 9.5 (5.2) | 52.7 (19.8) | 51.3 (18.7) |
| Sex (female), N (%) | 2908 (48.9) | 841 (49.0) | 3618 (58.6) | 1081 (58.8) |
| Free sugar (g/day) | ||||
| Free sugar from soft drinks only | 22.0 (4.4) | 12.0 (2.2) | 15.3 (3.1) | 10.0 (2.6) |
| Free sugar from food and soft drinks | 62.4 (6.0) | 47.8 (3.6) | 57.9 (3.6) | 47.9 (3.3) |
| Energy (from free sugar/protein) (%) | ||||
| Energy from free sugar in soft drinks as % of energy in soft drinks | 48.1 (12.3) | 26.3 (2.8) | 34.3 (2.3) | 22.8 (2.3) |
| Energy from free sugar in food and soft drinks as % of total dietary energy | 16.7 (4.1) | 9.9 (1.2) | 12.7 (2.4) | 8.8 (0.8) |
| Energy from protein in soft drinks as % of total energy in soft drinks | 15.8 (2.6) | 14.7 (1.1) | 21.2 (4.0) | 18.4 (1.2) |
| Energy from protein in food and soft drinks as % of total energy | 16.7 (3.3) | 12.4 (0.9) | 18.0 (3.3) | 14.8 (1.0) |
| Protein (g/day) | ||||
| Protein from soft drinks only | 6.6 (0.6) | 6.3 (0.6) | 5.7 (0.5) | 5.4 (0.4) |
| Protein from food and soft drinks | 58.0 (2.0) | 56.2 (1.5) | 74.1 (2.6) | 73.8 (2.2) |
*April 2008 to March 2016.
†April 2016 to January 2019.