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Fall in daily sugar intake following introduction of UK sugar tax

10 July 2024

Daily sugar intake fell by 11g - equivalent to two and a half teaspoons - in adults in the year after the introduction of the UK’s ‘sugar tax’ in 2018, finds a new study involving a UCL researcher. Dr Oliver Mytton (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health)

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