UK sugar tax explained: what is it and has it worked?
New research shows levy has led to a significant drop in the amount of sugar in people’s diets
June 2024
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Your brain sees sugar as a reward. But does that mean it’s addictive?
Most scientists say no, but some want ultra-processed foods, with sky-high sugar amounts, to count as addictive substances
May 2024
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‘Sugar is brown!’: there’s more to the sweet stuff than its pure white version
Sugar’s texture and taste can be as individualistic as coffee beans or wine grapes grown in specific regions, but most of us don’t know that
April 2024
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Megadrought forces end to sugarcane farming in parched Texas borderland
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Hawaiian scientist’s quest to find and save the state’s distinctive sugarcanes
Barbados leader halts £3m payout to UK MP for Drax Hall plantation
Death by diabetes: America's preventable epidemic
She was fired after not endorsing Splenda-filled salads to people with diabetes. Why?
January 2024
Cookies and candy are latest victims of climate crisis as sugar prices surge
Cost of sugar surges to highest level since 2011 after dry spell in India and drought in Thailand, and price hike has already filtered down to desserts
December 2023
Chocolate treats for Christmas 2023 jump in price at UK supermarkets
Fun-size packs of bars, Milk Tray and Quality Street up by at least 50% since 2022 as cocoa, sugar and packaging costs rise
November 2023
Sweet and sour: how slavery, fake science and the love of profit got Britain hooked on sugar
Doctors have been warning of the health risks from sugar for almost 400 years. Here’s how we still ended up consuming so much of it
October 2023
Cap UK’s sugar supply to fight obesity, say campaigners
Environmental and health experts say UK grows or imports two and a half times the population’s recommended intake
May 2023
Ban smoking and tax fruit juice, says George Osborne
Ex-chancellor urges UK PM extend sugar tax and raise legal age for tobacco to curb obesity and cancer
April 2023
EU firms accused of ‘abhorrent’ export of banned pesticides to Brazil
BASF among firms selling chemicals to sugar industry despite links to human health risks
March 2023
‘Sour taste’ as cost of sugar hits Easter eggs and hot cross buns, say UK retailers
British Retail Consortium blames rising price of butter, eggs and cocoa, as food inflation hits record 15%
January 2023
The Observer view on the UK’s toxic stance on sugar farming
The rural network
Queensland sugarcane growers face major crop losses due to native rat plague
September 2022
The rural network
Between burns and biofuel: Burdekin canegrowers seek environmental sweet spot
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
National insurance increase will be reversed from 6 November, says Kwasi Kwarteng – as it happened
June 2022
UK needs to tax salt in the same way it does sugar, says heart charity
Ministers should bring in levy to cut heart attacks and strokes and address packaged foods’ high salt content, advises BHF
April 2022
Last rites? Supermarkets’ annual Easter egg bonanza to end
Shoppers may soon have to hunt for chocolate eggs as anti-obesity law dictates how and where unhealthy foods can be sold
