Taxing sugar-sweetened beverages: impact on overweight and obesity in Germany

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Price-elasticities of demand and mean (min/max) energy content of different beverages

Own price elasticity is highlighted in bold
Data from a recent meta-analysis [17] were used to estimate elasticities for SSBs (lemonade, fruit drinks), fruit juice and milk (average of whole and skim milk as far as this was assessed). Since elasticity differs by socio-economic (income) status [13, 23], we constructed two elasticity strata (low/middle and high income). Beverage consumption was transformed into energy consumption via energy density using a Standard Reference [22]

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