The estimate suggests that soft drink sugar made up over half of this total. However, overall daily energy intake from free sugar levels is still higher than the recommendation from the World Health Organisation (WHO) of five percent.
The study
Researchers looked particularly at changes in total intake of dietary free sugars from all food and soft drinks combined and from soft drinks alone.
The data draws on information from 7999 adults and 7656 children, and estimated changes in free sugar consumption are based on January to March 2019. They are compared with what would be expected had no sugar tax been implemented.
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