Abstract

CAGNASSO, Carolina E; LOPEZ, Laura B  and  VALENCIA, Mirta E. Non nutritive sweeteners in non-alcoholic drinks: estimation of the daily intake in children and adolescents. Arch. argent. pediatr. [online]. 2007, vol.105, n.6, pp.517-521. ISSN 0325-0075.

Many non-alcoholic drinks commercially available do not emphasize on their labels that they correspond to light drinks. The objective of the present paper was to estimate the daily intake of non nutritive sweeteners by healthy children and adolescents through the consumption of non-alcoholic drinks. Food frequency questionnaires of non alcoholic drinks from 190 children and adolescents (3 to 18 years old) were analysed. The brands of the most consumed non-alcoholic drinks were requested in order to consider the quantity of the declared sweetener in the correspondent labels to estimate the daily intake. Moreover, the daily intake of nonalcoholic drinks and the body weight declared in each questionnaire was taken into account. The estimated daily intake of students from 3 to 18 years old was 2,61 mg/kg of cyclamate, 0,28 mg/kg of saccharin, 0,69 mg/kg of acesulfame-K and 2,78 mg/kg of aspartame. Only in the case of cyclamate there were three individuals with an estimated daily intake greater than the admissible daily intake.

Keywords : Estimated daily intake; Non nutritive sweeteners; Non alcoholic drinks.

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