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HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It has not changed the price of sugar free. Because the compqnies have drematically reduced the sugar in other sodas.

IE you can nonlonger buy full sugar coke etc. So no tax is actually payable.

Ir is definitely improved diets. But to give you an idea of how much the sugar is reduced.

The first few years after the change. Type Q diabetics like me ended up in ER.

Because we had spent years ,(decades in my case) turning to fullvsugar drinks to avoid dangerous lows in hot summers.

Now coke etc has only a small amount more sugar then diet coke.

Many of us only realised this as we came to in an ambulance on the way to ER.

It was such an issue that the NHS now prescribes us very high sugar drinks in small plastic ( 100ml) bottles we can carry for emergencies.

We all also now know to stick to fruit juice if we need to buy something in an emergency. As that is not covered by the rule so has tons of added sugar.

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