{"id":81678,"date":"2025-11-26T20:20:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=81678"},"modified":"2025-11-26T20:20:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:20:02","slug":"sugar-tax-extended-to-milk-based-drinks-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/26\/sugar-tax-extended-to-milk-based-drinks-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar tax extended to milk-based drinks: What you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/983\/cpsprodpb\/aaa9\/live\/edad1610-c9e6-11f0-8c06-f5d460985095.jpg\" alt=\"A man with dark hair stands in front of a large supermarket fridge containing shelves of milk-based drinks, such as flavoured milkshakes and milky coffees like lattes, cappucinos and iced coffees.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Milkshakes, coffee drinks and milk substitutes are to be included in the government&#8217;s sugar tax scheme for the first time in the UK in a renewed attempt to help tackle obesity.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1w9jg89glro\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Milkshakes, coffee drinks and milk substitutes are to be included in the government&#8217;s sugar tax scheme for the first time in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-food-and-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Sugar.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81679,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81678\/revisions\/81679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}