Editing Sugar (section)

=== Recommended dietary intake ===

The WHO recommends that both adults and children reduce the intake of free sugars to less than 10% of total energy intake, and suggests a reduction to below 5%. "Free sugars" include monosaccharides and disaccharides added to foods, and sugars found in fruit juice and concentrates, as well as in honey and syrups. According to the WHO, "[t]hese recommendations were based on the totality of available evidence reviewed regarding the relationship between free sugars intake and body weight (low and moderate quality evidence) and dental caries (very low and moderate quality evidence)."<ref name="WHO 2015p4">{{cite web |title=Guideline: Sugar intake for adults and children |date=2015 |page=4 |url=http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/149782/9789241549028_eng.pdf |publisher=World Health Organization |location=Geneva|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704002426/http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/149782/9789241549028_eng.pdf|archive-date=4 July 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 20 May 2016, the U.S. [[Food and Drug Administration]] announced changes to the Nutrition Facts panel displayed on all foods, to be effective by July 2018. New to the panel is a requirement to list "added sugars" by weight and as a percent of Daily Value (DV). For vitamins and minerals, the intent of DVs is to indicate how much should be consumed. For added sugars, the guidance is that 100% DV should not be exceeded. 100% DV is defined as 50 grams. For a person consuming 2000 calories a day, 50 grams is equal to 200 calories and thus 10% of total calories—the same guidance as the WHO.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fda.gov/food/guidanceregulation/guidancedocumentsregulatoryinformation/labelingnutrition/ucm385663.htm|title=Labeling & Nutrition – Changes to the Nutrition Facts Label|first=Center for Food Safety and Applied|last=Nutrition|website=www.fda.gov|date=22 February 2021|access-date=10 March 2017|archive-date=1 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101031958/https://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/LabelingNutrition/ucm385663.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> To put this in context, most {{convert|12|USfloz||0|adj=on}} cans of soda contain 39 grams of sugar. In the United States, a government survey on food consumption in 2013–2014 reported that, for men and women aged 20 and older, the average total sugar intakes—naturally occurring in foods and added—were, respectively, 125 and 99 g/day.<ref>[https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/80400530/pdf/1314/Table_1_NIN_GEN_13.pdf What We Eat In America, NHANES 2013–2014] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224042515/https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/80400530/pdf/1314/Table_1_NIN_GEN_13.pdf |date=24 February 2017 }}.</ref>