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  • Published on: 5 January 2024
    High sugar on the high street

    The research by Rogers et al. [1] is certainly encouraging and further proof that the use of levies is an effective lever to not only help reduce the number of child admissions for tooth extractions, but push companies to reduce sugar and calories in their products. We now need to see similar levies introduced across other product ranges, including juice, milk-based drinks, biscuits, cakes, sweets, yoghurts and cereals.

    A recent product survey by the campaign group Action on Sugar has revealed more than a third of sweet food and drinks products sold in major UK high street coffee shops exceed an adult’s daily limit of sugar (30g of free sugars) in just one serving. According to the research, 782 sweet food and drink products in 9 leading coffee shops are insufficiently labelled for consumers. If nutrition information was fully transparent, more than half would be marked ‘red’, which means high in total sugars, according to the UK’s traffic light nutritional labelling system. [2]

    The World Health Organization released a global report on the use of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes in early December 2023. Most countries do not tax fruit juices, sugar-sweetened ready-to-drink tea or coffee, and sugar-sweetened milk-based drinks (including plant-based milk substitutes), even though these products contain free sugars, which might be leading to undesirable substitutions towards these drinks. About 46% of countries that apply excise taxes to SSBs include unsweete...

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