Experts recommend limiting added sugar intake for better health.
An umbrella review of existing meta-analyses has found that high dietary sugar consumption is generally more harmful than beneficial for health, especially in cardiometabolic disease. The review identified 73 meta-analyses and 83 health outcomes from 8,601 unique articles, including 74 unique outcomes in meta-analyses of observational studies and nine unique outcomes in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials. Significant harmful associations between dietary sugar consumption and 18 endocrine/metabolic outcomes, 10 cardiovascular outcomes, seven cancer outcomes, and 10 other outcomes (neuropsychiatric, dental, hepatic, osteal, and allergic) were detected.