Note: As the guarantors of the study, Drs. Johnston and Slavin take full responsibility for the work as a whole, including the study design, access to data, and the decision to submit and publish the manuscript.

Acknowledgment: The authors thank Tamsin Adams-Webber, clinical librarian, for helping to develop our search strategy and Gordon Guyatt, GRADE Working Group Co-Chair, for advice on applying the GRADE methods and for reviewing the manuscript.

Financial Support: This project was funded by the Technical Committee on Dietary Carbohydrates of ILSI North America. The authors wrote the protocol, the scope of which was reviewed and approved by ILSI; and conducted the study independently from ILSI.

Disclosures: Dr. Slavin served on the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Advisory Committee (DGAC) where she chaired the carbohydrate committee that reviewed the relationships between added sugar intake and health outcomes. The results of that review were published in the 2010 DGACs, in Nutrition Reviews (Slavin J. Beverages and body weight: challenges in the evidence-based review process of the Carbohydrate Subcommittee from the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Nutr Rev. 2012;70 Suppl 2:S111-20.). She has presented widely on her work as chair of the carbohydrate and protein committees for the 2010 DGAC. Most of her research is in the areas of dietary fiber and gut health. As a dietitian, she is interested in dietary patterns and whole foods. Her research funding in the area of dietary sugars is summarized below. She received a grant from ILSI-NA Carbohydrate Committee in 2010 to examine sugar recommendations. That work was published in 2012 (Hess J, Latulippe ME, Ayoob K, Slavin J. The confusing world of dietary sugars: definitions, intakes, food sources and international dietary recommendations. Food Funct. 2012;3:477-86.). One of the co-authors of that paper was an employee of ILSI-NA at the time. That information is disclosed in the paper. Dr. Slavin and the University of Minnesota received the grant from ILSI-NA to support the current project. Besides ILSI-NA, Dr. Slavin thanks the following organizations for providing research funds for her laboratory the past 3 years: Minnesota Beef Council (satiety), Minnesota Cultivated Wild Rice Council (literature review), Barilla (snacking), Novartis Consumer Health (GSK) (fiber), American Pulse Association (satiety), MNDrive Global Food Ventures (nutrients in spinach), United States Department of Agriculture (fiber), The Mushroom Council (gut health), Pepsico (oatmeal), Welch’s (FODMAPs), Nestle Health Sciences (FODMAPs), and DSM (fiber). Her laboratory also has received contracts for services for analytical services in the areas of dietary fiber, whole grains, legumes, FODMAPS, digestive health, protein needs, carbohydrate needs, and snacking: Besides the companies listed, the laboratory has received funds in the past 3 years from Danone (snacking) and Coca-Cola (fiber). When the work is published, the funding source for all work in the laboratory will be disclosed as outlined by the journal. Dr. Slavin speaks widely on a range of human nutrition topics. Some talks on the topic of interest in this paper: "Fluid Consumption: Caloric Contribution to Weight Gain/Loss and Health: Factors That Influence Satiety" (Second International Conference on hydration and Health, sponsored by the ILSI North America Committee on Hydration, November 2011); "The Confusing World of Dietary Sugars: Views From the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Scientific Advisory Committee" (2012 Nutrition News Forecast, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, April 2012); "Food Is Not a Talisman: Reflections on the Science and Practice of Nutrition" (WO Atwater Lecture at Experimental Biology, April 2015). For full financial disclosure: ILSI meetings do not pay speakers; other scientific meetings also typically do not pay speakers if you are a member of that society. Dr. Slavin serves on the scientific advisory board for Tate and Lyle, Kerry Ingredients, Atkins Nutritionals, and Midwest Dairy Association. She also owns one-third share of the Slavin Sisters Farm LLC, a 119-acre farm in Walworth, Wisconsin, that is currently rented. Crops in 2016 included corn, soybeans, and pumpkins. Dr. Johnston is a member of GRADE, a working group that has developed a common, sensible, and transparent approach to grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations. In addition to being a methods consultant to ILSI for this project, over the last 5 years, he has held investigator-initiated grants unrelated to the topic of sugar from BioK+ (a probiotic manufacturer), Genzyme (a manufacturer of enzyme replacement therapy for patients with rare lysosomal storage diseases), and a joint grant funded by Nestle and MITACS Accelerate (a provincially and federally supported not-for-profit organization that works with Canadian universities and companies to build partnerships that support industrial and social innovation in Canada) to assess probiotics for preventing necrotizing enterocolitis. Authors not named here have disclosed no conflicts of interest. Disclosures can also be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M16-2020.