Comment on 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.

wren@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Fact check: the guardian has completely messed up their reporting here. The paper they’re citing attributes a 9.7% decrease in children’s total sugar consumption to the sugar tax.

The “sugar consumption halved!” is more accurately: “free sugar from soft drinks only” dropped from 22g per day (pre-tax) to 12g per day (post-tax).

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