Seleniodine
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Brits can soon look forward to more expensive , poorer tasting and even poisonous soft drinks.
Starting April 6th 2018 the new sugary soft drink tax takes effect. Manufacturers are lowering portion sizes and replacing with other natural sweeteners such as stevia and in some cases using aspartame. Scots are buying up the remaining stocks of their beloved Irn Bru before the aspartame version takes over. Yudkin strikes from beyond the grave it seems. Any bets on whether obesity or diabetes rates in Britain will decrease as a result of this? Pure fruit juice and milk drinks excluded for now. Chocolates next?
The 2018 UK sugar tax
What is the UK sugar tax, how much will the price of fizzy drinks increase by and how much sugar do they contain?
Scots ‘panic buy’ Irn-Bru ahead of recipe change this month
Wetherspoons increases price of sugary soft drinks
Nestlé to remove 10% of sugar from all snacks in UK and Ireland by 2018
From Wikipedia:
"In the 2016 United Kingdom budget, the UK Government announced the introduction of a sugar tax, officially named the "Soft Drinks Industry Levy". Planned to come into effect in 2018, beverage manufacturers will be taxed according to the volume of sugar-sweetened beverages they produce or import. The tax will be imposed at the point of production or importation, in two bands. Drinks with total sugar content above 5g per 100 millilitres will be taxed at 18p per litre and drinks above 8g per 100 millilitres at 24p per litre. The measure is estimated to generate an additional £1 billion a year in tax revenue which will be spent on funding for sport in UK schools.[57][58]
It is proposed that pure fruit juices, milk-based drinks and the smallest producers will not be taxed. It is expected that some manufacturers will reduce sugar content in order to avoid the taxation.[59] AG Barr have significantly cut sugar content in their primary product Irn Bru in advance of the tax.
Notable research on effect of excess sugar in modern diets in the United Kingdom includes the work of Professor John Yudkin with his book called, "Pure, White and Deadly: The Problem of Sugar" first published in 1972.[60] With regard to a proposed tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, a study published in the British Medical Journal on 31 October 2013, postulated that a 20% tax on sugar-sweetened beverages would reduce obesity in the United Kingdom rates by about 1.3%, and concluded that taxing sugar-sweetened beverages was "a promising population measure to target population obesity, particularly among younger adults."[61]
Campaigners want the sugar tax extended to include confectionary and sweets to help tackle childhood obesity.[62]"
Starting April 6th 2018 the new sugary soft drink tax takes effect. Manufacturers are lowering portion sizes and replacing with other natural sweeteners such as stevia and in some cases using aspartame. Scots are buying up the remaining stocks of their beloved Irn Bru before the aspartame version takes over. Yudkin strikes from beyond the grave it seems. Any bets on whether obesity or diabetes rates in Britain will decrease as a result of this? Pure fruit juice and milk drinks excluded for now. Chocolates next?
The 2018 UK sugar tax
What is the UK sugar tax, how much will the price of fizzy drinks increase by and how much sugar do they contain?
Scots ‘panic buy’ Irn-Bru ahead of recipe change this month
Wetherspoons increases price of sugary soft drinks
Nestlé to remove 10% of sugar from all snacks in UK and Ireland by 2018
From Wikipedia:
"In the 2016 United Kingdom budget, the UK Government announced the introduction of a sugar tax, officially named the "Soft Drinks Industry Levy". Planned to come into effect in 2018, beverage manufacturers will be taxed according to the volume of sugar-sweetened beverages they produce or import. The tax will be imposed at the point of production or importation, in two bands. Drinks with total sugar content above 5g per 100 millilitres will be taxed at 18p per litre and drinks above 8g per 100 millilitres at 24p per litre. The measure is estimated to generate an additional £1 billion a year in tax revenue which will be spent on funding for sport in UK schools.[57][58]
It is proposed that pure fruit juices, milk-based drinks and the smallest producers will not be taxed. It is expected that some manufacturers will reduce sugar content in order to avoid the taxation.[59] AG Barr have significantly cut sugar content in their primary product Irn Bru in advance of the tax.
Notable research on effect of excess sugar in modern diets in the United Kingdom includes the work of Professor John Yudkin with his book called, "Pure, White and Deadly: The Problem of Sugar" first published in 1972.[60] With regard to a proposed tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, a study published in the British Medical Journal on 31 October 2013, postulated that a 20% tax on sugar-sweetened beverages would reduce obesity in the United Kingdom rates by about 1.3%, and concluded that taxing sugar-sweetened beverages was "a promising population measure to target population obesity, particularly among younger adults."[61]
Campaigners want the sugar tax extended to include confectionary and sweets to help tackle childhood obesity.[62]"