What you need to know

Milk, coffee drinks and milk substitutes are to be included in the government’s sugar tax scheme for the first time in the UK in a much-needed bid to help tackle obesity.

The sugar levy, officially known as the Small Skin Drink (SDIL), is a tax on pre-packaged drinks such as cans.

Health Sahasi Health and Care Care and Social Care announced tax time in the House of Commons for Tuesday, ahead of the budget.

Extending the sugar tax on milk-based drinks will happen from January 1, 2028.

The government says companies that make these drinks must reduce the sugar they contain or face taxes.

That means they may taste different (less sugary) or cost more.

The tax introduced by the conservative government in April 2018 is meant to make obese people’s diets healthier and reduce sugar intake.

As he made the announcement, the Secretary of Health said: “Obesity is a disorder of children that may start in life, the cost of participating in health and the cost of dying is the most important.”

Sugar tax applies to pre-packaged soft drinks with added sugar.

It already applies to the smallest and buszzny drinks sold in cans, bottles and cartons in supermarkets.

It will now be added to page based drinks that have been loaded with sugar such as bothysleed milk and coffee drinks.

It will also cover dairy milk in general – home-based drinks, oat and rice milk with added sugar.

Milk-based foods are exempt from the sugar tax because they contain calcium, which is encouraged in young people.

However, the high sugar content of even milk-based drinks means the government has banned them.

The government will introduce a ‘lactose allowance’ to account for the natural milk content of this drink.

All milk substitutes, such as soya, almonds or drinks, were previously exempted from the sugar tax if they contained 120 mg per 1000 ml.

But if the general drink contains added sugar derived from the main ingredient, we will now tax it.

Sugar tax is not levied on drinks made and served in Nafe, restaurants and bars. So peso, lattes and other milk drinks made in Kifé editions will not be subject to this tax.

Soft drinks made with only natural sugar, such as polain’ milk and pure fruit juice, are also not part of the tax.

Unpasteurized plant-based milks are also excluded.

Beer or alcohol or wine, or drinks sold as powder and laga or finished mock also in the open space also under the scope of sugar tax.

Currently, the tax is charged per liter on drinks that contain 5g of total sugar per 100ml, and 24G per liter with 8G of sugar or more.

But this government brought the maximum amount of sugar in the drink. Instead of 5g, the limit will now be 4.5g per 100ml.

The number, where there is a 46% reduction in the sugar contained in soft drinks, the government said.

Almost 90% of the market now contains less sugar than the level where the tax.

But experts say there is too much sugar in the UK diet.

Red sugar should account for no more than 5% of each food’s energy intake, British advice now says.

But the amount of sugar available in the UK is about twice that. And obesity rates in children and adults show signs of falling, with nearly two-thirds of people in the UK obese.

This is what the government has decided to carry out a consumer review, and extend it to milk-based drinks.