Distribution of volume sold of calorically and noncalorically sweetened beverages: evidence from two U.S. cities

To better understand the extent to which beverages with noncaloric sweeteners are purchased and to what extent they are sweetened with natural substitutes or artificially, this brief describes the volume sold of SSBs and NSBs by sweetener status, based on retail scanner data for Oakland, California, and Sacramento, California, from June 26, 2016 through June 24, 2017.