Post by account_disabled on Mar 7, 2024 16:26:23 GMT 5.5
Most soft drinks contain more sugars than allowed, therefore a higher amount of calories. For this reason, recently the Mexican Beverage Industry announced that by 2024 the calorie content of the beverages manufactured and sold in Mexico will be reduced by 20% as part of the proposed health and well-being agenda.
Reduce 20% calories in soft drinks: a goal for 2024
According to the National Association of Soft Drinks and Carbonated Water Products (ANPRAC), they are endorsing the commitment to continue with the reformulation and reduction of calories by an additional 20% in products from 2018 to 2024.
“We are going for a greater commitment to Chile Mobile Number List an additional 20 percent calorie reduction in our product offering. This new commitment is added to the 55 percent reduction in calories in the last 10 years, in order to achieve 75 percent in our products by 2024,” explained ANPRAC, an organization in which the Monterrey bottling company Arca Continental (AC) participates and also Coca-Cola FEMSA.
It also says “our objectives within this new commitment, incorporate drink options in different sizes, low or no calorie options and flavors. The Mexican Beverage Industry made up of ANPRAC and its 120 non-alcoholic beverage bottling plants, which represent the economic support of one and a half million families in the country, reinforce its commitment to being a sector that collaborates and is committed to social development and economic of the country as a responsible industry.”
It is worth mentioning that this Association is made up of 120 non-alcoholic beverage bottling plants, among which companies such as Coca-Cola Femsa, Arca Continental, Tehuacán, Grupo Peñafiel, among others, stand out.
He stressed that his consumers are the center of his actions.
How will the objective be achieved?
He stressed that his consumers are the center of his actions.
“We reformulate for the well-being of Mexicans and we innovate and evolve hand in hand with the preferences and needs of all our consumers so that they can choose a drink from a much more diversified portfolio in options, sizes and flavors according to their lifestyle,” he pointed
Fifty products will be reformulated, which will present a reduction in calories in their drinks of up to 60%, so their portfolio will end with 70% less caloric content.
Likewise, the industry mentioned that it will continue to innovate to provide its consumers with more diversified products in options, sizes and flavors, to progressively increase and continue its positive impact on society.
"We have launched 172 new low and/or no calorie products with the aim of offering options for all lifestyles."
This commitment comes hand in hand with the beginning of the collection of the Special Tax on Production and Services (IEPS), which came into force in January 2014, and considered the collection of 1 peso per liter on sugary drinks, proposing the update of the quota according to inflation when it accumulates 10 percent; Therefore, in January 2018, the quota was updated by 17%, generating a tax charge of 1.17 pesos per liter.
It should be noted that in the approval of the 2020 Economic Package, an update of the fee that this type of beverages will pay was endorsed, which will be set with the inflation observed in the period from December 2010 and until the same is from 2019 and will enter effective January 2020.
Reduce 20% calories in soft drinks: a goal for 2024
According to the National Association of Soft Drinks and Carbonated Water Products (ANPRAC), they are endorsing the commitment to continue with the reformulation and reduction of calories by an additional 20% in products from 2018 to 2024.
“We are going for a greater commitment to Chile Mobile Number List an additional 20 percent calorie reduction in our product offering. This new commitment is added to the 55 percent reduction in calories in the last 10 years, in order to achieve 75 percent in our products by 2024,” explained ANPRAC, an organization in which the Monterrey bottling company Arca Continental (AC) participates and also Coca-Cola FEMSA.
It also says “our objectives within this new commitment, incorporate drink options in different sizes, low or no calorie options and flavors. The Mexican Beverage Industry made up of ANPRAC and its 120 non-alcoholic beverage bottling plants, which represent the economic support of one and a half million families in the country, reinforce its commitment to being a sector that collaborates and is committed to social development and economic of the country as a responsible industry.”
It is worth mentioning that this Association is made up of 120 non-alcoholic beverage bottling plants, among which companies such as Coca-Cola Femsa, Arca Continental, Tehuacán, Grupo Peñafiel, among others, stand out.
He stressed that his consumers are the center of his actions.
How will the objective be achieved?
He stressed that his consumers are the center of his actions.
“We reformulate for the well-being of Mexicans and we innovate and evolve hand in hand with the preferences and needs of all our consumers so that they can choose a drink from a much more diversified portfolio in options, sizes and flavors according to their lifestyle,” he pointed
Fifty products will be reformulated, which will present a reduction in calories in their drinks of up to 60%, so their portfolio will end with 70% less caloric content.
Likewise, the industry mentioned that it will continue to innovate to provide its consumers with more diversified products in options, sizes and flavors, to progressively increase and continue its positive impact on society.
"We have launched 172 new low and/or no calorie products with the aim of offering options for all lifestyles."
This commitment comes hand in hand with the beginning of the collection of the Special Tax on Production and Services (IEPS), which came into force in January 2014, and considered the collection of 1 peso per liter on sugary drinks, proposing the update of the quota according to inflation when it accumulates 10 percent; Therefore, in January 2018, the quota was updated by 17%, generating a tax charge of 1.17 pesos per liter.
It should be noted that in the approval of the 2020 Economic Package, an update of the fee that this type of beverages will pay was endorsed, which will be set with the inflation observed in the period from December 2010 and until the same is from 2019 and will enter effective January 2020.