For years, governments, doctors and celebrity chefs tried and failed to get the world to consume less sugar. Sugar consumption will slip 1.2% to 169.9 million tons this season, according to supply chain services company Czarnikow. The International Sugar Organisation said the crisis has wiped out most of 2020's projected consumption growth, and bigger losses may follow. Lockdown measures are easing around the world and the U.S. Department of Agriculture expects global sugar consumption to rebound 3.6% to a record next season. As GDP stalls, so will sugar consumption."

Source: News 24 June 14, 2020 10:30 UTC