**17.1 Level of knowledge of sugar in SSBs, and food and nutrition labelling**

This section below discusses the knowledge scores in SSBs, and food and nutrition labelling.

#### **17.2 Knowledge scores at item-level**

To investigate the level of knowledge of added sugar in SSBs, eight questions were asked. **Figure 2** illustrates the responses to these questions.

More than a third quarter (64%) of the respondents were knowledgeable about the effect of added sugar on health, while less than half (44.5%) of the respondents

#### **Figure 2.**

*Summary of responses to items measuring knowledge of sugar (n = 278).*

could interpret the added sugar content of SSBs as the equivalence of teaspoons of sugar. Overall, the respondents were split between either knowing or not on questions relating to knowledge of added sugar and understanding of nutrition labels on SSBs.
