Intake of Added Sugars in Children and Adolescents
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 2699
Special Issue Editors
Interests: dietary surveys; nutritional status; nutrition and metabolism, food reformulation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: food composition databases; dietary surveys; nutritional status; food reformulation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sugars comprise a specific group of carbohydrates and are one of the most controversial components of our diet, as public health authorities worldwide acknowledge that there is an excessive intake, and that this is worringly contributing to the global obesity pandemic. Furthermore, as part of a high-calorie diet, added sugars have been recognised as a cause for dental caries and major non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as diabetes. Worldwide sugar consumption has triplicated over the past 50 years, and this increase is expected to continue, mainly in emerging countries. At present, research concerns are aimed not only at the implications of high sugar intakes on diet and human health, but also to the lack of use of harmonized nomenclature in nutritional and food consumption surveys when referring to different types of sugars, as well as food reformulation policies aimed at decreasing added sugar intakes.
This Special Issue of Nutrients is, therefore, intended to highlight some of the recent dietary and nutrition studies assesing added sugar intake levels, major food sources, and reformulation practices worldwide, namely focused on children and adolescents as key vulnerable population groups due to current excesive intakes at western societies. Therefore, this Special Issue welcomes the submission of manuscripts either describing original research or reviewing the scientific literature on this topic
Prof. Dr. Teresa Partearroyo
Prof. Dr. Lourdes Samaniego-Vaesken
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- added sugar
- intake
- food sources
- children
- adolescents
