Campaign group Action on Sugar welcomes Tesco's commitment to reduce added sugars by 5% per year in all their own-label soft drinks. BBC Homepage Skip to content ...

Increasing WHO insistence that a 20% tax on soft drinks be levied by governments in an effort to force sugar content down has galvanized regional soft drink manufacturers to pronounce on their ...

F rom billboards to vending machines to gas station checkout lines, soft drinks are almost always within reach no matter where we are. According to findings of a Gallup poll published in 2012, 48% ...

Supermarkets led the charge to remove sugar from the shelves with the average sugar content for own label soft drinks falling from 3.2g to just 2.7g. Morrisons emerged as the supermarket with the ...

Around 63% of American adults drink at least one sugar-sweetened beverage every day, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. Coca-Cola was the top non-alcoholic beverage in 2022 ...

New Delhi: The beverage industry on Monday called for a “layered” tax on sugary carbonated soft drinks linked to the sugar content in them. Currently, carbonated or aerated beverages, ranging ...

Among these initiatives, the soft drinks industry levy and the sugar reduction programme stand out. These policies aimed to tackle sugar intake from different angles, with varying degrees of success.

Since 1993, a flat rate of €26.13 ($27.96) per 100 litres has applied to all non-alcoholic drinks, regardless of sugar content. The Dutch government is now looking to introduce an additional tax ...

According to the study, the mean sales-weighted sugar content of soft drinks in Germany was 5.3 grams per 100 milliliters in 2015, and 5.2 grams per 100 milliliters in 2021.

It found that children’s daily sugar intake fell by approximately 4.8 grams, while adults saw a reduction of 10.9 grams in the year following the soft drink levy’s implementation.

Campaign group Action on Sugar has welcomed Tesco's commitment to reduce added sugars by 5% per year in all their own-label soft drinks. This means that after four years, about two teaspoons of ...