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South America adopts a wide variety of dietary patterns. The primary source of polysaccharide in South American diet includes wheat, corn, rice, and tubers. Yucca and bananas are also part of the daily diet in most Latin American countries. Access to a sugar‐rich diet, and low administrative tax on sugar‐sweetened products resulted in quicker absorption of energetics in the human body [154]. This impacts pre‐adolescents and teenagers, in particular, who were in Latin America have shown an estimated overweight prevalence of approximately 7% in children younger than 5 years. This is further complicated by the high intake of cookies, dairy products, and fruit juices [155, 156].