Table 1.
Daily fructose intake from various fructose-containing foods in girls and boys.
| Girls | Foods |
Pure Fructose
(g/day) |
Total Fructose
(g/day) |
| Sugar-sweetened beverages | 7.98 (2.51 to 17.22) | 8.80 (2.76 to 18.98) | |
| Nonchocolate confectionary | 0.12 (0.05 to 0.28) | 1.00 (0.40 to 2.41) | |
| Chocolate | 1.53 (0.67 to 2.73) | 1.71 (0.75 to 3.05) | |
| Cakes/pies/biscuits | 1.95 (1.07 to 2.90) | 8.79 (4.83 to 13.10) | |
| Desserts and puddings | 0.09 (0.06 to 0.19) | 0.22 (0.14 to 0.47) | |
| Breakfast and cereals | 0.01 (0.01 to 0.20) | 0.13 (0.07 to 1.90) | |
| Others | 0.02 (0.01 to 0.02) | 0.02 (0.01 to 0.02) | |
| Fruit and vegetable juices | 5.14 (1.85 to 10.08) | 5.86 (2.10 to 11.49) | |
| Honey/jam/syrup | 1.31 (0.37 to 5.28) | 1.61 (0.45 to 6.50) | |
| Fruits | 8.60 (4.62 to 13.70) | 10.45 (5.61 to 16.64) | |
| Fructose from all food sources | 34.69 ** (25.39 to 46.35) | 51.24 ** (39.17 to 65.12) | |
| Fructose from non-natural foods * | 12.94 ** (7.57 to 22.36) | 25.47 ** (18.04 to 36.76) | |
| Boys | Foods |
Pure Fructose
(g/day) |
Total Fructose
(g/day) |
| Sugar-sweetened beverages | 15.10 (6.04 to 27.45) | 16.64 (6.66 to 30.25) | |
| Nonchocolate confectionary | 0.06 (0.03 to 0.20) | 0.55 (0.28 to 1.78) | |
| Chocolate | 1.71 (0.91 to 3.74) | 1.91 (1.01 to 4.18) | |
| Cakes/pies/biscuits | 2.12 (1.03 to 3.41) | 9.58 (4.64 to 15.40) | |
| Desserts and puddings | 0.05 (0.04 to 0.08) | 0.12 (0.09 to 0.19) | |
| Breakfast and cereals | 0.03 (0.02 to 0.28) | 0.25 (0.15 to 2.70) | |
| Others | 0.01 (0.01 to 0.02) | 0.01 (0.01 to 0.02) | |
| Fruit and vegetable juices | 5.43 (1.94 to 11.19) | 6.19 (2.21 to 12.75) | |
| Honey/jam/syrup | 1.40 (0.61 to 5.81) | 1.73 (0.76 to 7.15) | |
| Fruits | 8.05 (3.59 to 13.29) | 9.78 (4.37 to 16.13) | |
| Fructose from all food sources | 45.29 ** (32.19 to 59.98) | 63.62 ** (47.55 to 81.12) | |
| Fructose from non-natural foods * | 21.14 ** (11.69 to 34.60) | 35.89 ** (23.61 to 51.55) |
Values are medians and interquartile range * Non-natural foods are: sugar-sweetened beverages, nonchocolate confectionary, chocolate, cakes/pies/biscuits, desserts and puddings, breakfast cereals and others sources categories. ** values presented are medians; the sum of medians from each foods categories do not follow an arithmetic computation.