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Reformulation of Packaged Foods and Beverages in the Colombian Food Supply
Public discussion, advocacy, and legislative consideration of policies aimed at reducing consumption of processed foods, such as sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes and mandatory front-of-package (FOP) warning labels, may stimulate product reformulation as a strategy to prevent regulation. In Colom...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7692620/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33114419 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12113260 |
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author | Lowery, Caitlin M. Mora-Plazas, Mercedes Gómez, Luis Fernando Popkin, Barry Taillie, Lindsey Smith |
author_facet | Lowery, Caitlin M. Mora-Plazas, Mercedes Gómez, Luis Fernando Popkin, Barry Taillie, Lindsey Smith |
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description | Public discussion, advocacy, and legislative consideration of policies aimed at reducing consumption of processed foods, such as sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes and mandatory front-of-package (FOP) warning labels, may stimulate product reformulation as a strategy to prevent regulation. In Colombia, there have been major legislative pushes for SSB taxes and FOP labels, although neither has passed to date. In light of the ongoing policy debate and successful implementation of similar policies in Peru and Chile, we explored manufacturer reformulation in the Colombian food supply. We compared the quantities of nutrients of concern (including sugar, sodium, and saturated fat) from the nutrition facts panels of the same 102 packaged foods and 36 beverages from the top-selling brands in Colombia between 2016 and 2018. Our analyses showed a substantial decrease in median sugar content of beverages, from 9.2 g per 100 mL to 5.2 g per 100 mL, and an increase in the percentage of beverages containing non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS), from 33% to 64% (p = 0.003). No meaningful changes in the quantities of nutrients of concern among foods were observed. Our findings suggest little reformulation has occurred in Colombia in the absence of mandatory policies, except for the substitution of sugar with NNS among beverages. |
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spelling | pubmed-76926202020-11-28 Reformulation of Packaged Foods and Beverages in the Colombian Food Supply Lowery, Caitlin M. Mora-Plazas, Mercedes Gómez, Luis Fernando Popkin, Barry Taillie, Lindsey Smith Nutrients Article Public discussion, advocacy, and legislative consideration of policies aimed at reducing consumption of processed foods, such as sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes and mandatory front-of-package (FOP) warning labels, may stimulate product reformulation as a strategy to prevent regulation. In Colombia, there have been major legislative pushes for SSB taxes and FOP labels, although neither has passed to date. In light of the ongoing policy debate and successful implementation of similar policies in Peru and Chile, we explored manufacturer reformulation in the Colombian food supply. We compared the quantities of nutrients of concern (including sugar, sodium, and saturated fat) from the nutrition facts panels of the same 102 packaged foods and 36 beverages from the top-selling brands in Colombia between 2016 and 2018. Our analyses showed a substantial decrease in median sugar content of beverages, from 9.2 g per 100 mL to 5.2 g per 100 mL, and an increase in the percentage of beverages containing non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS), from 33% to 64% (p = 0.003). No meaningful changes in the quantities of nutrients of concern among foods were observed. Our findings suggest little reformulation has occurred in Colombia in the absence of mandatory policies, except for the substitution of sugar with NNS among beverages. MDPI 2020-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7692620/ /pubmed/33114419 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12113260 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Lowery, Caitlin M. Mora-Plazas, Mercedes Gómez, Luis Fernando Popkin, Barry Taillie, Lindsey Smith Reformulation of Packaged Foods and Beverages in the Colombian Food Supply |
title | Reformulation of Packaged Foods and Beverages in the Colombian Food Supply |
title_full | Reformulation of Packaged Foods and Beverages in the Colombian Food Supply |
title_fullStr | Reformulation of Packaged Foods and Beverages in the Colombian Food Supply |
title_full_unstemmed | Reformulation of Packaged Foods and Beverages in the Colombian Food Supply |
title_short | Reformulation of Packaged Foods and Beverages in the Colombian Food Supply |
title_sort | reformulation of packaged foods and beverages in the colombian food supply |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7692620/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33114419 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12113260 |
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