{"id":282611,"date":"2025-11-25T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282611\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T14:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:26:08","slug":"milkshakes-and-lattes-to-face-sugar-tax-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282611\/","title":{"rendered":"Milkshakes and lattes to face sugar tax in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tax applies to products in cans, cartons and other packaging, but not to drinks sold over-the-counter in cafes or coffee shops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, there will also be a &#8220;lactose allowance&#8221; to account for the naturally occurring sugars in milk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That means some of the sweetness in milk-based drinks will not count towards the total sugar when determining their liability for the tax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fruit juices, alcohol-free beer and wine, and meal replacement drinks do not pay the tax. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Milk-based drinks were originally exempt due to their calcium-content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drinks made with plant-based milk, such as soya, oat and almond will be treated in a similar way to milk-drinks from 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tax applies to products in cans, cartons and other packaging, but not to drinks sold over-the-counter in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[102,6636,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-282611","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\/282611","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=282611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}