Banning unhealthy meal deals is not the answer | Kathleen Kerridge

High street retailers have been criticised for high-sugar meal deals, but adults have to be given the right to make choices. We should promote healthier options instead

After conducting research into high street “meal deals”, the pressure group Action on Sugar has warned that some contain more than four times an adult’s recommended daily intake of sugar. It’s a worrying statistic, especially in a country spending £10bn a year on diabetes treatment – a cost that is rapidly crippling the NHS, and was a topic of discussion at last week’s first Vegetable Summit, organised by the Food Foundation thinktank.

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