Table 2.

Change in free sugar consumption in food and drink and energy from free sugar as a proportion of total energy compared with the counterfactual scenario of no announcement and implementation of the UK soft drinks industry levy (SDIL)

	Children		Adults
	Absolute change (g)	Relative change (%)	Absolute change (g)	Relative change (%)
Free sugar from soft drinks only	−3.0 (−5.8, −0.1)	−23.5 (−46.0, −0.9)	−5.2 (−6.1, −4.2)	−40.4 (−48.0, −32.9)
Free sugar from food and soft drinks	−4.8 (−9.1, −0.6)	−9.7 (−18.2, −1.2)	−10.9 (−13.9, −7.8)	−19.8 (−25.4, −14.2)
Energy from free sugar in food and soft drinks as % of total energy (%)	−0.7 (−3.9, 2.5)	−7.6 (−41.7, 26.5)	−2.6 (0.6, −5.8)	−24.3 (−54.0, 5.4)
Energy from free sugar in soft drinks as % of total energy in soft drinks (%)	0.4 (−7.1, 8.0)	1.8 (−30.7, 34.3)	−0.52 (−5.4, 4.3)	−2.4 (−24.6, 19.8)