{"id":92026,"date":"2026-07-18T10:06:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92026"},"modified":"2026-07-18T10:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:06:47","slug":"energy-drinks-to-be-banned-for-under-16s-in-england-from-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/18\/energy-drinks-to-be-banned-for-under-16s-in-england-from-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy drinks to be banned for under-16s in England from April"},"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\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1800\/cpsprodpb\/b87e\/live\/83b80650-820c-11f1-b976-0b9c15b0ccfc.jpg\" alt=\"Brightly coloured Monster, Red Bull and Boost energy drinks are displayed on supermarket shelves. \" width=\"681\" height=\"383\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Children under 16 will be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks in England from April, the government has said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/czrjg0jxkpno\">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>Children under 16 will be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks in England from April, the government has said. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/energy-drink.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92026","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=92026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92027,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92026\/revisions\/92027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}