The amount of sugar consumed by children from soft drinks in the UK halved within a year of the sugar tax being introduced, a study has found.

alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works · 5 months ago

The amount of sugar consumed by children from soft drinks in the UK halved within a year of the sugar tax being introduced, a study has found.

jaybone@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

What do the kids drink instead?

Noodle07@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

Tears

Zetta@mander.xyz · 5 months ago

Possibly water, or perhaps tea

uis@lemm.ee · 4 months ago

or perhaps tea

With more sugar

Zetta@mander.xyz · 4 months ago

Sweetened tea gets a big L from me, tastes like shit. Unsweetened all the way.

then_three_more@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

The tax was on the soft drink companies. To avoid it almost all of them changed their recipes to reduce sugar (partially replacing it with artificial sweeteners).

Nythos@sh.itjust.works · 5 months ago

Possibly just the sugar free equivalent on said drinks.

The amount of sugar consumed by children from soft drinks in the UK halved within a year of the sugar tax being introduced, a study has found.

The amount of sugar consumed by children from soft drinks in the UK halved within a year of the sugar tax being introduced, a study has found.

Children’s sugar consumption halved since tax announcement, study finds