An excessive intake of monosaccharides and disaccharides increases risk of obesity and caries. However, there are not studies that investigated the intakes of these constituents due to a lack in Japanese food composition databases. The objective of this study was to develop a database for monosaccharides and disaccharides from representative sweet snacks and beverages for Japanese. All food items analyzed in this study are usually consumed between meals (snacks). Two methods were approached : 1) from 42 food items we analyzed five samples of each item by enzymatic method and calculated the average of monosaccharides and disaccharides, and 2) from 29 representative snacks home made, we conducted a literature search and calculated the average of sucrose of each snack from 10 recipe books. This database will be useful to calculate the monosaccharides and disaccharides of foods in future nutritional survey and to investigate the role of them in obesity and caries etiology and prevention.

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