Sugar

Tax unhealthy foods to tackle obesity, say campaigners

Health and children’s groups urge UK ministers to impose levies on products containing too much salt or sugar

Denis Campbell Health policy editor

08, Nov, 2024 @12:01 AM

Mars agrees $36bn deal to buy Pringles maker Kellanova

All-cash offer dwarfs 2008 takeover of Wrigley by Mars but could face scrutiny from watchdogs

Sarah Butler

14, Aug, 2024 @12:47 PM

UK sugar tax explained: what is it and has it worked?

New research shows levy has led to a significant drop in the amount of sugar in people’s diets

Tobi Thomas Health and Inequalities Correspondent

09, Jul, 2024 @9:30 PM

Your brain sees sugar as a reward. But does that mean it’s addictive?

Most scientists say no, but some want ultra-processed foods, with sky-high sugar amounts, to count as addictive substances

Deborah Douglas

05, Jun, 2024 @10:00 AM

‘Sugar is brown!’: there’s more to the sweet stuff than its pure white version

Sugar’s texture and taste can be as individualistic as coffee beans or wine grapes grown in specific regions, but most of us don’t know that

Kiki Aranita

09, May, 2024 @6:00 PM

Megadrought forces end to sugarcane farming in parched Texas borderland

The state’s last sugar processing mill closed because there’s just not enough water in the Rio Grande to share between the US and Mexico

Lela Nargi

30, Apr, 2024 @11:00 AM

Hawaiian scientist’s quest to find and save the state’s distinctive sugarcanes

Sugarcane biodiversity disappeared as big plantations dominated the sugar trade in Hawaii, but now old varieties are making a comeback

Kiki Aranita

24, Apr, 2024 @5:00 PM

Barbados leader halts £3m payout to UK MP for Drax Hall plantation

Government U-turn as PM Mia Mottley acknowledges anger from reparations movement over plan to buy Barbados land from Dorset MP Richard Drax

Paul Lashmar and Jonathan Smith in Barbados

24, Apr, 2024 @4:52 PM

She was fired after not endorsing Splenda-filled salads to people with diabetes. Why? | Neil Barsky

Elizabeth Hanna says she was fired by the American Diabetes Association after refusing to approve recipes heaped with the additive made by a major donor

Neil Barsky

18, Apr, 2024 @10:05 AM

Cookies and candy are latest victims of climate crisis as sugar prices surge

Cost of sugar surges to highest level since 2011 after dry spell in India and drought in Thailand, and price hike has already filtered down to desserts

Oliver Milman

05, Jan, 2024 @11:00 AM