RIVM rapport 350070001 Dutch National Food Consumption Survey ...

3.8 Artificially sweetened products
The consumption of artificial sweeteners and artificially sweetened products is shown in Table 3-13.
Based on the two record days, 58% of the young children consumed artificially sweetened products,
mainly ‘Non-alcoholic beverages’ and ‘Yogurt(drinks)’. In total 11% of these food groups consumed
were artificially sweetened products. The 4 to 6 year-old children consumed absolutely and relatively
more artificially sweetened beverages than the 2 to 3 year-olds (see Appendix B Table B-9, Table B-10
and Table B-11).
Table 3-13 Consumption of artificially sweetened products by Dutch children aged 2 to 6 years (DNFCS-Young
Children 2005/2006), weighted for socio-demographic factors and season.
Food groups based on 2 to 6 years (n=1,279)
EPIC Soft Classification Proportion of
total
Users
mean SD consumption Users mean SD
g/d g/d %* % g/d g/d
05 Dairy products 21 73 5 12 168 133
0502 Milk beverages 3 25 6 2 154 89
0503 Yogurt 16 65 11 9 182 133
0506 Cream desserts, puddings (milk-based) 2 12 6 3 68 30
11 Sugar and confectionery 6 19 9 21 30 33
1103 Confectionery non-chocolate 0 1 1 5 2 2
1104 Syrup 6 19 21 18 36 33
1105 Ice cream, water ice 0 1 0 0 20 0
110503 Water ice 0 1 0 0 20 0
13 Non-alcoholic beverages 65 128 11 34 190 155
1301 Fruit and vegetable juices 27 75 20 17 162 112
1302 Carbonated/soft/isotonic drinks, diluted 38 104 28 22 174 161
syrups
17 Miscellaneous 0 0 0 2 1 1
1702 Dietetic products 0 0 2 2 1 1
170201 Artificial sweeteners 0 0 100 2 1 1
* Consumption of artificially sweetened products as a proportion of the consumption of the total food group.
3.9 Dietary supplements
In total, 43% of the total study population (aged 2 to 6 years) took dietary supplements on one or both
survey days. Dietary supplement use was about twice as high among the 2 to 3 year-olds (62%) than
the 4 to 6 year-olds (30%). The most commonly taken supplement by 2 to 3 year-olds was vitamin D
supplements; 35 to 44% of this group used a vitamin D supplement as such (Table 3-15). Vitamin D
supplementation of 5 μg/day is recommended for 1 to 4 year-old children in the Netherlands. 30 Only
58% of the 2 to 3 year-old boys and 61% of girls in this age group received a supplement containing
vitamin D. One in five children received multivitamins/ minerals, regardless their age (see Table 3-15).
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