Anti-Sugar Groups In U.K. Decry Fruity Snacks Marketed As Healthful For Kids

August 22, 2020: 12:00 AM EST

British anti-sugar groups such as Action on Sugar and the London Early Years Foundation have warned that the country’s National Food Strategy risks being weakened by treats marketed by manufacturers and retailers as healthful fruit-based snacks for children. Snacks such as Percy Pig and Bear Pure Fruit Yoyos are, in fact, full of harmful sugar. The groups have called on the government to crack down on these products as part of a new anti-obesity program to get Britain fit. The groups spoke out following the publication of a 110-page independent review of U.K. food policy that says obesity is a "national emergency we can no longer afford to ignore" and that the coronavirus pandemic had "given a new urgency to the slow-motion disaster of the British diet."[Image Credit: © Bruno /Germany from Pixabay]

Patrick Sawer, Senior News Reporter, "Parents 'tricked' into buying sugary children's snacks promoted as healthy, campaigners claim", telegraph.co.uk, August 22, 2020, © Telegraph Media Group Limited

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