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WHITE OUT Sugar’s sweet stranglehold starts to loosen For a city that’s notoriously sweet-toothed and built on the riches of the sugar trade, Glasgow is showing plenty of enthusiasm for cutting back on the sweet stuff. In preparation for the sugar tax (aka the Soft Drinks Industry Levy) starting in April 2018, local favourite i zz Irn-Bru will soon have its sugary content cut by 50 per cent as producer AG Barr ducks below the levy line of 5g sugar per 100ml (the levy increases at 8g per 100ml). As campaigners like Food Standards Scotland endeavour to get the tax extended to sugary foods, Glasgow City Council has also stemmed the l ow of sugar at its 139 primary schools by removing all sweetened l avoured milk from its menus – ending the 16,000 cartons consumed each day.
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