If you’ve been struggling to stick to your New Year’s resolution to eat less chocolate, then this may help.
According to reports, many of your favourite chocolate bars are going to be reduced in size.
Yes, we’re serious!
The sweet treats that we’ve come to know and love such as Dairy Milk, Kit Kat and Mars bars will be smaller so that they are keeping in line with the Government’s new regulations regarding their sugar content.
Jamie Oliver has famously campaigned for a ‘sugar tax’, and it seems that authorities are taking notice. As they commit to introducing a tax on fizzy drinks, they will also be urging brands like Cadbury and Nestle to comply with the new rules but making their chocolate bars smaller.
Apparently, failure to do so will result in the companies being shamed in a report for Public Health England.
The aim is to reduce the amount of sugar in our diets, and in particular, the amount of sweet stuff that children are putting into their bodies.
With a range of chocolate bars, fizzy drinks and sugar-laden cereals easily available to our little ones, we really need to keep an eye on how much sugar they’re consuming on a daily basis.
The new measures are hoping to cut the child obesity figures. According to a Government report in 2016, a third of children aged 2 to 15 are overweight or obese.
Many sugary products can exchange the white stuff for an artificial sweetener in order to get around the new rules, but apparently this can’t be applied to chocolate bars as it will change the taste too much.
Therefore, the bars will be made smaller in order to fit with the new bill.
If it tackles child obesity, it can only be a good thing – and we suppose it won’t do our own sweet tooth any harm!
Do you think these new measures will help reduce child obesity, or will it just encourage people to buy more chocolate to satisfy their cravings? Let us know what you think @CloserOnline via Facebook or Twitter.
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