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Is taking sugar out of food as difficult as industry says it is?

By Anthony Warner

30 March 2017

A square of chocolate cake

Ditching the sprinkles is not enough

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The collection of companies known as “big food” don’t typically engender a great deal of sympathy. So their recent rumblings about the in the UK’s Childhood Obesity Plan are likely to have been dismissed by most readers.

But there is more than a crumb of truth to those rumblings.

Read more: The unpalatable truth about your favourite foods

The plan’s goal is

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