{"id":834513,"date":"2026-07-31T00:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834513\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T00:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:04:11","slug":"nearly-two-thirds-of-kids-have-caffeine-in-their-diet-the-cdc-says-its-not-all-coming-from-soda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834513\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly two-thirds of kids have caffeine in their diet, the CDC says. It&#8217;s not all coming from soda."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that nearly two-thirds of American children aged 2-19 have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/caffeine\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">caffeine<\/a> in their diet.<\/p>\n<p>On any given day, kids consume an average of 19.4 milligrams of caffeine, which is about two-thirds of what&#8217;s in a can of Coke, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db566.pdf?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fnchs%2Fupdates%2Ffeature-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the report<\/a> released Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CBS News medical correspondent Dr. C\u00e9line Gounder said on &#8220;CBS Mornings&#8221; that health experts don&#8217;t know how much caffeine is considered to be too much for children. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthychildren.org\/English\/healthy-living\/nutrition\/Pages\/the-effects-of-caffeine-on-kids-a-parents-guide.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">shouldn&#8217;t consume any caffeine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers also found that sodas aren&#8217;t the only way caffeine is getting into kids&#8217; diets.<\/p>\n<p>For kids aged 2-11, goodies like brownies, cookies and pastries \u2014 called &#8220;sweet bakery products&#8221; in the report \u2014 were the top source of caffeine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the chocolate that has the caffeine,&#8221; Gounder said.<\/p>\n<p>The baked goods were followed by flavored milk, candy, soda and tea, respectively, for that age group. For those aged 12-19, soda was the top source, followed closely by sweet bakery products and then tea, coffee and candy.<\/p>\n<p>Gounder noted that caffeine can affect how some children sleep.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2021 study in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology, 3% of kids aged 13-15 who consumed a low amount of caffeine got less than six hours of sleep a night. That increased to 24% for those in that age group who had a high amount of caffeine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of this also depends on timing, if they&#8217;re having the caffeine in the evening,&#8221; Gounder said. &#8220;So it&#8217;s not just you don&#8217;t want to have coffee in the evening. If you&#8217;re a kid, you may not want to have that cake and cookies in the evening either.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n                Go deeper with The Free Press\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that nearly two-thirds of American children&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[64,63,27581,21825,137,532],"class_list":["post-834513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-caffeine","tag-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention","tag-health","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}