Traditional treats such as boiled sweets and fudge could be forced off the shelves under government plans to change the rules on sugar, a think-tank claimed yesterday.
The Institute for Economic Affairs warned that British favourites including sherbet lemons and Parma Violets would be impossible to produce under a new recommendation that sweets contain less than 50 per cent sugar.
Boiled sweets usually consist almost entirely of sugar, while sugar accounts for more than half the content of sweets such as fudge and liquorice allsorts.
Public Health England’s (PHE) plans to lower sugar content in food “ignored consumers’ tastes and preferences” and amounted to “the largest extension of state control over the British diet since rationing”, the think tank claimed in its Cooking for Bureaucrats