Arifen, Zainorain Natasha Zainal and Shahar, Suzana and Trieu, Kathy and Majid, Hazreen Abdul and Noh, Mohd Fairulnizal Md and Haron, Hasnah (2024) Individual and total sugar contents of street foods in Malaysia - Should we be concerned? Food Chemistry, 450. p. 139288. ISSN 0308-8146, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2024.139288.
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Street foods are often of poor nutritional quality with high sugar content, in which the overconsumption of sugar is associated with obesity. However, sugar content information on local street foods is scarce. Thus, the individual and total sugar contents of 94 types of street foods in Malaysia were analysed. Compared to snacks and main meals, desserts contained the highest amounts of sugar, sucrose, fructose, glucose, and maltose. Sucrose was predominant in 90% desserts, 79.3% snacks, and 68.6% main meals. Most desserts (93.3%) contained medium to high sugar content (>= 5 g to >15 g/100 g), while 82.9% main meals and 65.5% snacks had low sugar content. When comparing the sugar contents of 39 foods with other local databases, 58.3% main meals, 55.6% desserts, and 33.3% snacks contained either significantly (p < 0.05) higher or lower sugar contents. Consumers can identify low and high-sugar foods, and policymakers can review health priorities to combat obesity.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Dana Padanan Kolaborasi (DPK-2020-016) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Main meals; Desserts; Snacks; Sucrose; High-performance liquid chromatography |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Social & Preventive Medicine |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jan 2025 03:11 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Jan 2025 03:11 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/46985 |
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