Editing Sugar (section)

== Consumption ==

Worldwide sugar provides 10% of the daily calories (based on a 2000 kcal diet).<ref>{{cite web |title=Food Balance Sheets |publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |year=2007 |url=http://faostat.fao.org/site/368/DesktopDefault.aspx?PageID=368#ancor |access-date=28 March 2012 |archive-date=9 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009115932/http://faostat.fao.org/site/368/DesktopDefault.aspx?PageID=368#ancor |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1750, the average Briton got 72 calories a day from sugar. In 1913, this had risen to 395. In 2015, sugar still provided around 14% of the calories in British diets.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Otter |first1=Chris |title=Diet for a large planet |date=2020 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=USA |isbn=978-0-226-69710-9 |page=22 }}</ref> According to one source, per capita consumption of sugar in 2016 was highest in the United States, followed by Germany and the Netherlands.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Amber Pariona|title=Top Sugar Consuming Nations In The World|url=https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/top-sugar-consuming-nations-in-the-world.html|publisher=World Atlas|access-date=20 May 2018|date=25 April 2017|archive-date=22 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622135129/https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/top-sugar-consuming-nations-in-the-world.html|url-status=live}}</ref>