Abstract
This paper (Nutrients 2023, 15, 3149. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15143149) analyses 2017-2020 changes in nutritional content for desserts served by major chain restaurants in the UK, reviews progress towards sugar and energy targets established as part of the government’s Childhood Obesity Plan, and discusses implications for future reformulation programmes.
This dataset (Excel spreadsheet) combines nutritional data collected from restaurant websites from October to December 2020, with unpublished raw data for 2017 and 2018 supplied confidentially by Public Health England (PHE) and additional raw data for 2018 from a previously published study. Desserts are classified using the categories specified by PHE in their technical guidance for the Sugar Reduction Programme. Nutritional information (g/portion and/or g/100g) for each dessert is provided as listed on the menus or in the third-party datasets from which they were extracted. Each dessert was allocated a unique ID at the time of data collection/extraction; some items were subsequently excluded during data cleaning as described in the paper. A total of 3466 items were included in the analysis.