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the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports economic disappearance (availability), not consumption, figures for sweeteners. USDA estimates that for 1997 about 67 pounds of sugar (cane and beet); 86 pounds of corn sweeteners; and 1 pound of other sweeteners (honey, maple syrup) per capita were delivered into the food supply. That adds up to a total carbohydrate sweetener availability of about 154 pounds per capita.
As availability data, these numbers do not account for waste, sugars used up in fermentation as in bread baking, or use in pet foods. Recently, the Food and Drug Administration estimated the amount of added sweeteners (sugar+cornsweeteners+other) Americans actually consume is considerably less than disappearance - about 43 pounds per person or 11 percent of total calories.
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Updated: Saturday, December 29, 2007.
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