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<p>Through our voluntary partnership with industry, we have seen many supermarkets
and soft drinks manufacturers take a range of actions to help consumers eat and drink
fewer calories. This includes actions to reduce sugar in the drinks they produce and
retail and to develop more no or low sugar options.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Examples
of recent activity through the voluntary partnership to reduce the intake of sugar
from soft drinks include: Britvic’s decision to take its full sugar Fruit Shoot off
the market, which it is estimated will remove 2.2 billion kcals from children’s drinks;
and the Co-operative Group’s decision to take-out the added sugar from its high juices,
which will remove 1.5 billion kcals per year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The school
food standards severely restrict the availability of drinks high in sugar. The regulations
allow only healthy drinks to be provided in local authority maintained schools, academies
set up prior to 2010 and academies and free schools signing their funding agreements
from spring 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Scientific Advisory Committee
on Nutrition has recently published its draft recommendations on carbohydrates. The
final report, together with advice from Public Health England on sugar in the diet,
is expected to be published in late spring 2015. This will inform the Government’s
future thinking on sugar.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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