According to data revealed at a session at Infarmed, in Lisbon, food products covered by the National Program for the Promotion of Healthy Eating, of the Directorate-General for Health (DGS), and by the Integrated Strategy for the Promotion of Healthy Eating – chips and other snacks, breakfast cereals, pizzas, yogurts and fermented milks, chocolate milk, soft drinks and nectars – recorded, in those three years, a reduction of 11.5% and 11.1% in salt and sugar content, respectively.

The DGS highlights that three of the categories - soft drinks, chocolate milk and yogurts - "have already reached the reduction target defined for the year 2022" with regard to sugar and that two of the categories - breakfast cereals and pizzas - achieved the salt content.