Global Nutrition Database for Packaged Food
Barbados
National Policy Response
Food reformulation policies
Sodium
No targets
Fat
No targets
Sugar
No targets
Other relevant packaged food policies
Front-of-Package Labeling Regulations
None
Marketing Restrictions
Trans Fatty Acid Regulations
None
Fiscal Policies
20% excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, passed in 2015, updated in 2022.
Packaged Food Sampling
2015
| Nutrient types | Sodium | ||
| Products sampled | 1353 |
Methods
Data on packaged food in Barbados was obtained between the years 2015-2016 by research teams from the Latin American Network of Food Composition Data System (LATINFOODS) as part of a larger study from 14 participating countries: Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Paraguay, Panama, Peru, and Trinidad and Tobago. Samples were collected from the grocery stores with the greatest market share in each country; nutrition labels were photographed for content. In Barbados, 1353 food products were sampled.
Mean, median, standard deviation, interquartile range and minimum and maximum levels were calculated for sodium content (mg/100g) in each of 12 food categories and were used for comparison with the regional target level for sodium.
For more information on the study methodology, please see the data source below.
Data source
Citation: Arcand J, Blanco-Metzler A, Benavides Aguilar K, L’Abbe MR, Legetic B. Sodium Levels in Packaged Foods Sold in 14 Latin American and Caribbean Countries: A Food Label Analysis. Nutrients. 2019;11(2):369. Published 2019 Feb 11. doi:10.3390/nu11020369
Contact
No contact information available
Institution leading data collection
The Latin American Network of Food Composition Data System (LATINFOODS)