Footnotes

• Collaborators Vicki Pyne.

• Contributors IAM chaired the Working Group of SACN which produced the Carbohydrates and Health report. VP was a member of the supporting Secretariat from Public Health England for much of the time that the report was being prepared. VP produced the drafts of the present article after discussions about its content with IAM. IAM read these drafts and produced the final version.

• Funding The SACN report itself was part of the activities of SACN, which is funded by Public Health England.

• Competing interests None declared.

• Provenance and peer review Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.