Ban price deals on chocolate 'sharing' bags

This follows a new product survey by experts at Action on Sugar who have exposed the high amounts of sugar in chocolate confectionery ‘sharing’ bags.

Of the 95 chocolate confectioneries surveyed, the ‘sharing’ bag with the highest amount of sugar per pack (i.e. Brookside Dark Chocolate Pomegranate Flavour 198g) contained an astonishing 29 teaspoons, which is four times an adult’s maximum daily sugar intake – almost 1,000 calories!

Next in line was Brookside Dark Chocolate Acai & Blueberry Flavors (198g) with 28 teaspoons of sugar per pack, followed by Marks & Spencer’s Gigantic Milk Chocolate Buttons (170g) and Lidl Mister Choc White Chocolate Giant Buttons (140g), both containing a whopping 23 teaspoons of sugar. The M&S pack suggests there are five portions in it, but even if the pack is shared between five, a single portion still contains nearly five teaspoons of sugar – almost a 7-10 year old’s maximum intake of sugar for an entire day.