Added sugar Intake -Saudi Population

Among the contributors to

Poor diet ,is high added sugar consumption which is

Unfortunately on the rise 

now a days

Materials and methods:

Study of added sugar intake for Saudi Arabia

Questionnaire send through social media

1 adults over 18 years

2 Excluding children and individuals not residing in Saudi Arabia 

Food diary about added sugar daily record

Sugars that are added to foods as ingredients during preparation 

Processing or at the table

Added sugars do not include naturally occuring sugars such as

Lactose present in milk and fructose present in whole fruit or

Cut fruit and 100% fruit juice

1163 respodents included in study

Added sugar variables included

Sweetened Tea/,and coffe

Canned juice

Cock tails Flavouring syrups 

Soft drinks 

Food section

Chocolate 

granola

Cake cheese cake

Brownies /Cookies donuts

Pie muffin

Ice cream 

Frozen yogurt 

Arabic sweets 

Honey sauces 

Ketechep

Sweetened popcorn with chocolate

                  Results                      

           Results

            Daily average added sugar intake gms/day age and gender 

            Age.  Men    Sugar  added.        

            18-30  men   sugar  added.        118.32

            31-40 Men       Sugar added       61.98

            41-50  Men    sugar added         53.66

            51-60.   Men   Sugar added.     47.96

            >60.       Men    Sugar added.   22.13

           

In men as the age increased the intake of sugar reduced

            Daily average added sugar intake gms/day age and gender

             Age.     Women.        Sugar added         

           18---30.  Women.        Sugar added.       76.54

            31-40.     Women    Sugar added.           52.67

              41-50.    Women.      Sugar Added       55.65

               51-60.     Women   Sugar Added         34.43

              ≥>60.       Women    Sugar Added.        28.15

Our study has shown an overall added sugar average 73grams

/Day (83grams /dayand 66grams /day men and women respectively.

American Heart Association Recommend 24 grams/day & 

36 grams/day for women and men respectively .

Simple sugar :- 1 Glucose 2 Fructose 3 Galactose

Disacharide : when 2 monosacharides attaches 

   Eg Sucrose (Table Sugar)

A significant contributor to poor diet is high sugar consumption 

 Especially added sugars .

An unhealthy diet contributes to pathogenesis of  many

Diseases such as obesity diabetes, cancers and heart diseases.

Obesity predisposes to many illnesses metabolic syndrome ,

Non alcoholic fatty liver disease., dyslipidemia elavated BP

diabetes cognitive decline and cancerPLO

Sugar simple monosacharides like glucose fructose Galactose 

Two monosaccharide glucose and fructose to form sucrose a disacharide 

Which is present in  table sugar.

The sudys aim is to assess added sugar intake among adults in Saudi Arabia

1163 respodents included in study. Overall added sugar average 73 grams 

/Day   (83 gram/day and 66grams men and women respectively.

Present study has shown that non Saudis have higher sugar in take than saudies 

Saudi Arabia .

This finding could be due to the fact Saudi Arabia hosts more 

than 10 million

Mostly of Indian syriyan Saudis and Pakistani nationals.

Those Nations are known to consume higher sugar or due to  the cultural food 

Cuisines eg Kuafa 

   Basbosa

    Baclava

   Gulab jamun 

Jelebi

Etc

Sugar consumption was significantly lower in educated groups

Conclusion: The total intake of added sugar is extremely 

High in Saudi Arabia.

Ref   PLOS One 2023:18(9)e02291136

      Noara Alhusseini

      Majed Ramdan

     Salwa Aljarayhi

      Waad Arnous

     Mohamed Abdelal

      Hala Dababo

       BanaDalati

        Ola AI Doumani

Sara AINasser

Rimah Sa!leem