Table 7.
Percent contribution of selected food groups to the intake of added or NME sugars in adults and childrena
| Adults | Children | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | The Netherlands (adapted from [30]) | France (adapted from [25]) | UK [34] | The Netherlands (adapted from [30]) | France (adapted from [25]) | UK [34] | |||||||
| Type of sugars | Added | Added | NMES | Added | Added | NMES | |||||||
| Age | 19 to 69 | 18 to 79 | 19 to 64 | 7 to 18 | 3 to 17 | 4 to 18 | |||||||
| Gender | Women | Men | Women | Men | Women | Men | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | |
| Food group | Category | ||||||||||||
| Dairy | Total dairy | 12 | 11 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 6 | 6 |
| Milk & dairy beverages | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Dairy desserts | 4 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 4 | |
| Yoghurt | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 9 | |||||
| Cheese | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | NA | NA | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Sweet products | Total sweet products | 53 | 47 | 60 | 61 | 44 | 42 | 49 | 45 | 50 | 46 | 44 | 40 |
| Cake & cookies | 16 | 12 | 23 | 20 | 17 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 24 | 22 | 18 | 16 | |
| Sugar, honey, jam, syrup | 17 | 18 | 27 | 32 | 16 | 19 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 8 | |
| Confectionary | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 6 | |||||
| Chocolate | 10 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | |
| Ice cream | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | |
| Beverages | Total beverage | 24 | 31 | 12 | 16 | 29 | 39 | 31 | 34 | 20 | 21 | 35 | 37 |
| F&V juices | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 12 | |
| Soft drinks | 18 | 26 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 16 | 26 | 30 | 13 | 15 | 22 | 24 | |
| Coffee, tea | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | |
| Alcoholic beverages | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Fruits & vegetables | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | |
| Others | 10 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 18 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 14 | |
aIn % of daily intake of added sugars- NA: not available- See text for details