Padilha LL, Vianna EO, Vale ATM, et al. - Using data from the BRISA cohort, São Luís‐MA, Brazil (n = 1140), researchers estimated child asthma traits in the 2nd year of life in correlation with sugar‐sweetened beverage (SSB), modeling direct as well as indirect pathways mediated by the highest BMI‐z of the child and allergic inflammation. They identified a direct correlation between a high percentage of daily calories from sugars added to SSBs and higher values of child asthma traits. High concentrations of eosinophils were also identified to be directly related to child asthma traits. No mediation pathways were noted through greater BMI‐z or eosinophil counts. Overall, it was inferred that early exposure to SSB in children may add to raised risk of childhood asthma, preceding the association between sugar intake and overweight/obesity, not yet observed in children in the first 2 years of life.