Table 2.
Definitions used within the current study.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sugars | Total sugars present in the product per 100 mL. Includes both free and intrinsic hexose monosaccharides and disaccharides. 1 |
| Sweetened | A product, containing one of the following ingredients: cane sugar, brown rice syrup, agave or tapioca syrup. 2 |
| Fortified | A product, containing micronutrients in addition to those intrinsically present in the original material, which are permitted for voluntary addition into plant-based beverages by FSANZ. Includes vitamin A, riboflavin (B2), cobalamin (B12), vitamin D, calcium, phosphorous and iodine. Added protein isolates were excluded from this definition. |
1 Reference: FSANZ [58], 2 Grain milks, whose high carbohydrate and sugar content is usually subject to enzymatic hydrolysis during production, were excluded from this definition.