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. 2020 Mar 26;15(3):e0230506. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230506

Table 1. Model outputs (grams of food/day, expenditure, energy, BMI and HALYs gained) for saturated fat and sugar taxes, and fruit and vegetable subsidy, for the preferred TFEe adjustment and conventional (no TFEe adjustment) analyses.

Expendi- ture # All food (g/day) Energy (kJ) BMI Fruit (g/day) Vege (g/day) Salt (g/day) PUFA (g/day) SSBs (mls/day) Sugar (g/day) HALYs 95% UI HALYs
Business as usual (BAU) 16.09 3016 8,536 27.51 149.44 149.68 3.43 0.050 102.58 108.92 173,012,000
Changes compared to BAU
Saturated fat tax of $2 per 100g (causing a 3.91% increase in the FPI)        
Conventional model–no TFEe adjustment -1.92% -68 -740 -1.30 -0.58 -0.83 -0.19 -0.001 0.40 -5.21 3,343,000
TFEe adjustment 2.93% -14 -348 -0.61 5.75 6.20 -0.07 -0.001 4.65 0.18 1,805,000 (1,337,000 to 2,340,000)
Sugar tax of $0.4/100 grams per 100g (causing a 1.88% increase in the FPI)                    
Conventional model–no TFEe adjustment -1.04% -45 -522 -0.91 -0.05 0.00 -0.04 0.002 -22.50 -17.53 2,504,000
TFEe adjustment 1.41% -16 -321 -0.56 3.20 3.58 0.02 0.002 -20.56 -20.81 1,671,000 (1,220,000 to 2,269,000)
Fruit and vegetable subsidy of 20% (causing a 3.27% decrease in the FPI)                  
Conventional model–no TFEe adjustment 0.72% 78 218 0.39 28.72 53.97 0.04 0.000 -0.46 5.49 415,000
TFEe adjustment -2.45% 45 -56 -0.10 24.22 48.62 -0.05 0.000 -2.88 1.84 953,000 (453,000 to 1,308,000)

† 0% discount rate; HALYs at 3% annual discount rate are shown in S4 Table. Values are ‘expected values’ using central estimates for all input parameters (i.e. not from Monte Carlo simulation).

‡ Uncertainty intervals for 2000 simulations (for TFEe adjusted results only) drawing the 2.5th and 97.5th percentiles.

# $ for BAU. % change for changes compared to BAU.