Soft Drinks: Sugar

(asked on 9th March 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average sugar content in soft drinks was in (a) 2004 and (b) 2014.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 12th March 2015

The Department does not collect this information. However data from the Kantar Worldpanel 2014 dataset show that the sales-weighted average sugar content for soft drinks in 2014 was 4.1 grams per 100 ml. Information is not available for 2004.

Through our voluntary approach with the food and drink industry, we have cut billions of calories from soft drinks and we have made it easier to see how much sugar is in soft drinks with our colour coded front of pack nutrition labelling.

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