SynthesisObesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity2019
Impact of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes on purchases and dietary intake: Systematic review and meta-analysis.
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223 citing papers in PubMed, 14 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Effectiveness of sugar taxation policies in Asia and Africa: a systematic review.Frontiers in oral health · 2025Pooled it
- The relationship between the price and demand of alcohol, tobacco, unhealthy food, sugar-sweetened beverages, and gambling: an umbrella review of systematic reviews.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Effect of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation on sugars intake and dental caries: an umbrella review of a global perspective.BMC public health · 2023Pooled it
- Impact of soda tax on beverage price, sale, purchase, and consumption in the US: a systematic review and meta-analysis of natural experiments.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- Evaluation of Economic and Health Outcomes Associated With Food Taxes and Subsidies: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2022Pooled it
- Outcomes Following Taxation of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2022Pooled it
- The Cost Effectiveness of Taxation of Sugary Foods and Beverages: A Systematic Review of Economic Evaluations.Applied health economics and health policy · 2022Pooled it
- Systematic review on fiscal policy interventions in nutrition.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Taxing sugar-sweetened beverages as a policy to reduce overweight and obesity in countries of different income classifications: a systematic review.Public health nutrition · 2021Pooled it
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- Effectiveness and Feasibility of Taxing Salt and Foods High in Sodium: A Systematic Review of the Evidence.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2020Pooled it
- The independent and combined effect of price increase and price labelling on sugar-sweetened beverage vending machine sales in an Australian university: a factorial randomised controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2026Trial
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- Do financial constraint and perceived stress modify the effects of food tax schemes on food purchases: moderation analyses in a virtual supermarket experiment.Public health nutrition · 2024Trial
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- The Effect of a 14-DayNutrients · 2022Trial
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Abstract
The aim was to conduct a systematic review of real-world sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax evaluations and examine the overall impact on beverage purchases and dietary intake by meta-analysis. Medline, EconLit, Google Scholar, and Scopus databases were searched up to June 2018. SSB tax evaluations from any formal jurisdiction from cities to national governments were eligible if there was a comparison between pre-post tax (n = 11) or taxed and untaxed jurisdiction(s) (n = 6). The consumption outcome comprised sales, purchasing, and intake (reported by volume, energy, or frequency). Taxed and untaxed beverage consumption outcomes were examined separately by meta-analysis with adjustment for the size of each tax. The study was registered at PROSPERO (CRD42018100620). The equivalent of a 10% SSB tax was associated with an average decline in beverage purchases and dietary intake of 10.0% (95% CI: -5.0% to -14.7%, n = 17 studies, 6 jurisdictions) with considerable heterogeneity between results (I
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