Taxing Caloric Sweetened Beverages To Curb Obesity

New insights into the structure of consumer preferences for natural and artificial sweeteners

“…3 This model enables us to decompose sweetener consumption into precommitted (i.e., insensitive to price and income changes) and discretionary components (i.e., determined by economic circumstances), where precommitted quantities 1 According to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA, 2015(DGA, -2020, sugar-sweetened beverages, and desserts and sweet snacks are the two leading sources of added sugars in the diets of the US children and adolescents with 24% and 19% of total added sugar intake, respectively. 2 According to Smith et al (2010), in the early 2000s, per capita daily sugar consumption in the United States reached 22.5 teaspoons, 10.58 teaspoons of which came from soda and fruit drinks.…”