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Changes in the Sodium Content of Foods Sold in Four Latin American Countries: 2015 to 2018
In 2015, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) published sodium targets for packaged foods, which included two distinct levels: one “regional” and one “lower” target. Changes to the sodium content of the food supply in Latin American Countries (LAC) has not been evaluated. A repeated cross-sec...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8624930/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34836362 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13114108 |
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author | Blanco-Metzler, Adriana Vega-Solano, Jaritza Franco-Arellano, Beatriz Allemandi, Lorena Larroza, Rodrigo Burgos Saavedra-Garcia, Lorena Weippert, Madyson Sivakumar, Bridve Benavides-Aguilar, Karla Tiscornia, Victoria Sequera Buzarquis, Guillermo Guarnieri, Leila Meza-Hernández, Mayra Cañete Villalba, Felicia Castronuovo, Luciana Schermel, Alyssa L’Abbé, Mary R. Arcand, JoAnne |
author_facet | Blanco-Metzler, Adriana Vega-Solano, Jaritza Franco-Arellano, Beatriz Allemandi, Lorena Larroza, Rodrigo Burgos Saavedra-Garcia, Lorena Weippert, Madyson Sivakumar, Bridve Benavides-Aguilar, Karla Tiscornia, Victoria Sequera Buzarquis, Guillermo Guarnieri, Leila Meza-Hernández, Mayra Cañete Villalba, Felicia Castronuovo, Luciana Schermel, Alyssa L’Abbé, Mary R. Arcand, JoAnne |
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description | In 2015, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) published sodium targets for packaged foods, which included two distinct levels: one “regional” and one “lower” target. Changes to the sodium content of the food supply in Latin American Countries (LAC) has not been evaluated. A repeated cross-sectional study used food label data from 2015 (n = 3859) and 2018 (n = 5312) to determine changes in the proportion of packaged foods meeting the PAHO sodium targets and the distribution in the sodium content of foods in four LAC (Argentina, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Peru). Foods were classified into the 18 food categories in the PAHO targets. The proportion of foods meeting the regional targets increased from 82.9% to 89.3% between 2015 and 2018 (p < 0.001). Overall, 44.4% of categories had significant decreases in mean sodium content. Categories with a higher proportion of foods meeting the regional and lower targets in 2018 compared to 2015 (p < 0.05) were breaded meat and poultry, wet and dry soups, snacks, cakes, bread products, flavored cookies and crackers, and dry pasta and noodles. While positive progress has been made in reducing the sodium content of foods in LAC, sodium intakes in the region remain high. More stringent targets are required to support sodium reduction in LAC. |
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spelling | pubmed-86249302021-11-27 Changes in the Sodium Content of Foods Sold in Four Latin American Countries: 2015 to 2018 Blanco-Metzler, Adriana Vega-Solano, Jaritza Franco-Arellano, Beatriz Allemandi, Lorena Larroza, Rodrigo Burgos Saavedra-Garcia, Lorena Weippert, Madyson Sivakumar, Bridve Benavides-Aguilar, Karla Tiscornia, Victoria Sequera Buzarquis, Guillermo Guarnieri, Leila Meza-Hernández, Mayra Cañete Villalba, Felicia Castronuovo, Luciana Schermel, Alyssa L’Abbé, Mary R. Arcand, JoAnne Nutrients Article In 2015, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) published sodium targets for packaged foods, which included two distinct levels: one “regional” and one “lower” target. Changes to the sodium content of the food supply in Latin American Countries (LAC) has not been evaluated. A repeated cross-sectional study used food label data from 2015 (n = 3859) and 2018 (n = 5312) to determine changes in the proportion of packaged foods meeting the PAHO sodium targets and the distribution in the sodium content of foods in four LAC (Argentina, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Peru). Foods were classified into the 18 food categories in the PAHO targets. The proportion of foods meeting the regional targets increased from 82.9% to 89.3% between 2015 and 2018 (p < 0.001). Overall, 44.4% of categories had significant decreases in mean sodium content. Categories with a higher proportion of foods meeting the regional and lower targets in 2018 compared to 2015 (p < 0.05) were breaded meat and poultry, wet and dry soups, snacks, cakes, bread products, flavored cookies and crackers, and dry pasta and noodles. While positive progress has been made in reducing the sodium content of foods in LAC, sodium intakes in the region remain high. More stringent targets are required to support sodium reduction in LAC. MDPI 2021-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8624930/ /pubmed/34836362 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13114108 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Blanco-Metzler, Adriana Vega-Solano, Jaritza Franco-Arellano, Beatriz Allemandi, Lorena Larroza, Rodrigo Burgos Saavedra-Garcia, Lorena Weippert, Madyson Sivakumar, Bridve Benavides-Aguilar, Karla Tiscornia, Victoria Sequera Buzarquis, Guillermo Guarnieri, Leila Meza-Hernández, Mayra Cañete Villalba, Felicia Castronuovo, Luciana Schermel, Alyssa L’Abbé, Mary R. Arcand, JoAnne Changes in the Sodium Content of Foods Sold in Four Latin American Countries: 2015 to 2018 |
title | Changes in the Sodium Content of Foods Sold in Four Latin American Countries: 2015 to 2018 |
title_full | Changes in the Sodium Content of Foods Sold in Four Latin American Countries: 2015 to 2018 |
title_fullStr | Changes in the Sodium Content of Foods Sold in Four Latin American Countries: 2015 to 2018 |
title_full_unstemmed | Changes in the Sodium Content of Foods Sold in Four Latin American Countries: 2015 to 2018 |
title_short | Changes in the Sodium Content of Foods Sold in Four Latin American Countries: 2015 to 2018 |
title_sort | changes in the sodium content of foods sold in four latin american countries: 2015 to 2018 |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8624930/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34836362 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13114108 |
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