The 2015–2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans introduced a first-ever recommendation to limit added sugars to less than 10% of total daily calories.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by the official Dietary Guidelines document plus multiple independent secondary sources (university, health news, industry, trade publication) all agreeing this was the first explicit quantitative limit on added sugars. [tier=gold indep_score=0.87 clusters=5 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- New Dietary Guidelines for Americans - Mayo Clinic News Network (seed:food_and_diet)
- https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/resources/dga_cut-down-on-added-sugars.pdf (corroboration)
- https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/what-know-about-new-federal-dietary-guidelines (corroboration)
- https://baptisthealth.net/baptist-health-news/new-u-s-guidelines-added-sugars-less-than-10-of-daily-calories (corroboration)
- https://www.sugar.org/diet/diet-sugar-in-moderation/dietary-guidelines/ (corroboration)
- https://www.nutritionaloutlook.com/view/limit-added-sugar-biggest-change-new-dietary-guidelines-americans (corroboration)