美國食品和藥品管理局（The Food and Drug Administration, FDA）首次宣布人體每天糖分的建議攝取量上限——最多不要超過12.5匙或50克，這個建議量相當於1.5罐可口可樂所含糖分。傳統的12盎司一罐的可口可樂含有39克糖分，而一大杯40盎司的可口可樂含有140克糖分，遠遠超出建議量。
美國一些地方政府近年來也開始關注此事，目前共有33個州徵收含糖飲料稅。舊金山最近規定，含糖飲料包裝上要貼有添加糖的警告標識。《紐約時報》今年10月曾報導，從整體人均水平來看，自1998年以來的汽水消費額下降了25%，果汁也同樣下降，其中橙汁下降了45%。
小編評：一杯珍奶就超標啦～
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連結：Placing a Cap on Americans’ Consumption of Added Sugar（內有多筆參考文獻連結）
連結：A Day’s Worth of Sugar in a Single Food
The new limit part of the FDA’s push to change food labels to display the total amount of added sugars in a food, as opposed to natural sugars. (This is similar to how “saturated fat” and “total fat” are currently separated out on food labels.) Although added and natural sugars are chemically similar, foods that contain natural sugars, like fruit, usually contain other nutrients, like fiber, that are considered beneficial. Added sugar, meanwhile, is just that: superfluous. It’s been indicted by many nutritionists as one driver of the obesity epidemic and a potential cause of other health problems, such as heart disease.
小編評：原文報導有提到，糖類攝取上限是為了美國新版營養標示中的添加糖（added sugars）鋪路。