{"id":282356,"date":"2025-11-25T11:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282356\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:25:07","slug":"sugar-tax-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282356\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar tax: What you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sugar tax applies to pre-packaged soft drinks with added sugar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It already applies to most sugary and fizzy soft drinks sold in cans, bottles and cartons in supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Soon, it could also apply to pre-packaged sugary milk-based drinks sold in supermarkets, such as milkshakes and lattes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Milk-based drinks have been exempt from the sugar tax because they contain calcium, which is encouraged in children and young people&#8217;s diets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the high sugar content of some milk-based drinks means the government is reconsidering that exemption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government has consulted on introducing a &#8216;lactose allowance&#8217; to account for the natural sugars in the milk content of these drinks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All milk substitute drinks, such as soya, almond or oat drinks, were previously exempt from the sugar tax if they contained 120mg of calcium per 100ml.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But if these drinks contain added sugars beyond those derived from the main ingredient, they would now be taxed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sugar tax applies to pre-packaged soft drinks with added sugar. It already applies to most sugary and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[102,6636,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-282356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-nutrition","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}