Food
Rapidly absorbable sugar and low satiety profile increase excess calorie intake risk.[1396,2204,2430, etc.]
Superscript reference numbers link to the Sources bibliography.
Composite Rating
Blends evidence depth, community direction, safety friction, and completeness.
Evidence Intensity
100/100
High depth from human/RCT/meta counts
Community Direction
0
Mixed / Neutral • confidence Minimal
Safety Friction
31/100
Early signal from adverse/interaction markers
Data Completeness
100%
Studies 16 • mentions 0 • links 25
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Classification: limit.[1112,1251,1396, etc.]
Best fit: Users with glucose-control and appetite-control goals..[1112,1251,1396, etc.]
Goal alignment: Metabolic Health, Body Composition, Energy.[1112,1251,1396, etc.]
Classification
Limit
Evidence Tier
HIGH
Best Fit
Users with glucose-control and appetite-control goals.
Primary Focus
Metabolic Health, Body Composition
Clinical Depth
Humans: 320 • RCTs: 42 • Meta: 3
Cohort / Real-World
Cohort signals: 38
Safety Markers
Adverse signals: 4 • Interactions: 0
Freshness, trend, and study timeline for this item
Status
Trend
→ Stable evidence base
Depth
320 total studies · 5 recent
Timeline
Total indexed
320
Human studies
320
Randomized trials
42
Cohort signals
38
In vitro / tissue
9
Safety adverse signals
4
Weighted direction score: 0 (Mixed / Neutral)
High when there are >=2 human meta-analyses, or strong human trial/cohort volume with substantial human literature.
Total indexed
320
Human studies
320
Randomized trials
42
Cohort signals
38
In vitro / tissue
9
Safety adverse signals
4
Meta-analyses
3
Animal-only studies
0
Distribution of evidence by study design strength
Evidence Strength: High
Composite of study volume, RCTs, and meta-analyses
PMID 11109219 • 2000 Summer
Dietary determinants of dental caries and dietary recommendations for preschool children.
J Public Health Dent
Open PubMedPMID 39531692 • 2025 Apr
Linking Big Five personality traits to components of diet: A meta-analytic review.
J Pers Soc Psychol
Open PubMedPMID 23728691 • 2013 May 31
Primary school-based behavioural interventions for preventing caries.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev
Open PubMedBenefit reports: 0
Adverse reports: 0
No-effect reports: 0
Mixed reports: 0
Unclear reports: 0
Signal confidence: 0.00
Benefits
Adverse
No Effect
Community confidence 0.00 with mentions: benefit 0, adverse 0, no-effect 0.
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aggregate • unclear
No directional first-hand mentions captured in the current community corpus; source links are retained for traceability.
Open mentionEvidence Sources
PUBMED • Humans + preclinical triage
Counts from structured PubMed query set for diet/intake context.
Outcome: Humans 320, RCT 42, meta 3, cohort 38.[1396,2204,2430, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2000 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 11109219 from J Public Health Dent.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[,, etc.]
No directional mention volume was resolved; fallback profile metadata is shown in other sections.
PMID 37726068 • 2023 Dec 1
Feasibility and acceptability of miracle fruit application prior to the consumption of sour-tasting foods as a weight-loss strategy in adults with diabetes or prediabetes: A randomized crossover trial.
Appetite
Open PubMedPMID 38052304 • 2024 May
Effects of Inclusion of Food Purchase Restrictions and Incentives in a Food Benefit Program on Diet Quality and Food Purchasing: Results From a Randomized Trial.
J Acad Nutr Diet
Open PubMedPMID 30373597 • 2018 Oct 29
A multilevel, multicomponent childhood obesity prevention group-randomized controlled trial improves healthier food purchasing and reduces sweet-snack consumption among low-income African-American youth.
Nutr J
Open PubMedPMID 35267992 • 2022 Feb 28
Food and Nutrient Displacement by Walnut Supplementation in a Randomized Crossover Study.
Nutrients
Open PubMedPMID 38368909 • 2024 May 1
Sweet and sour sips: No effect of repeated exposure to sweet or sour-tasting sugary drinks on children's sweetness preference and liking.
Appetite
Open PubMedPMID 34863192 • 2021 Dec 4
The impact of financial incentives and restrictions on cyclical food expenditures among low-income households receiving nutrition assistance: a randomized controlled trial.
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act
Open PubMedPMID 32984896 • 2021 Feb 11
World trends in sugar-sweetened beverage and dietary sugar intakes in children and adolescents: a systematic review.
Nutr Rev
Open PubMedPMID 39115848 • 2024 Aug 1
Food Environment After Implementation of a Healthy Checkout Policy.
JAMA Netw Open
Open PubMedPMID 39299048 • 2024 Dec
Association between consumption of non-nutritive sweeteners and gestational diabetes mellitus in Chilean pregnant women: A secondary data analysis of the CHiMINCs-II cohort.
Nutrition
Open PubMedPMID 27099246 • 2016 Jun
Diet qualities: healthy and unhealthy aspects of diet quality in preschool children.
Am J Clin Nutr
Open PubMedPMID 34910200 • 2022 Mar 3
Purchases of Nontaxed Foods, Beverages, and Alcohol in a Longitudinal Cohort After Implementation of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax.
J Nutr
Open PubMedPMID 25644352 • 2015 Feb
The development of a diet quality score for preschool children and its validation and determinants in the Generation R Study.
J Nutr
Open PubMedPMID 32024147 • 2020 Feb 1
Free and Added Sugar Consumption and Adherence to Guidelines: The UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey (2014/15-2015/16).
Nutrients
Open PubMedFallback search fetch failed: Failed to fetch after retries: https://old.reddit.com/search.json?raw_json=1&sort=relevance&t=year&limit=12&q=packaged%20sugary%20candy
Community Sources
PUBMED • 2025 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 39531692 from J Pers Soc Psychol.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1396,2204,2430, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2013 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 23728691 from Cochrane Database Syst Rev.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1396,2204,2430, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2023 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 37726068 from Appetite.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1396,2204,2430, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2024 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 38052304 from J Acad Nutr Diet.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1396,2204,2430, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2018 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 30373597 from Nutr J.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1396,2204,2430, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2022 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 35267992 from Nutrients.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1396,2204,2430, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2024 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 38368909 from Appetite.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1396,2204,2430, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2021 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 34863192 from Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1396,2204,2430, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2021 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 32984896 from Nutr Rev.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1396,2204,2430, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2024 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 39115848 from JAMA Netw Open.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1396,2204,2430, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2024 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 39299048 from Nutrition.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1396,2204,2430, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2016 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 27099246 from Am J Clin Nutr.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1396,2204,2430, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2022 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 34910200 from J Nutr.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1396,2204,2430, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2015 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 25644352 from J Nutr.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1396,2204,2430, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2020 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 32024147 from Nutrients.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1396,2204,2430, etc.]
Open source