Commitment
Marketing of highly processed foods high in sugar, salt and fat outlawed by end of 2023.
Description
Sudan will advocate with key stakeholders to ban marketing of highly processed foods.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Revise dietary guidelines and food composition tables.
Description
By 2025, Sudan will update its national dietary guidelines and food composition tables to promote and scale up consumption of healthy and endogenous foods, and prohibit marketing of breast milk substitutes and ultra-processed foods with unhealthy sugar, salt and fats.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Unverified
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| SMARTness index |
High
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Details
| Global nutrition target(s) |
Anaemia
Low birth weight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Childhood overweight
Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
Raised blood pressure
Salt/sodium intake
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Policy >
Food environment
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Marketing of highly processed foods prohibited |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | No | 2021 |
| Target | Yes | December 2023 |
