The Demon in the Can

The sugar tax six years on: did it work? Text by Professor Karen Throsby. Illustration by Sinjin Li.

Good morning and welcome to Vittles Season 7: Food and Policy. Each essay in this season investigates how policy intersects with eating, cooking and life. Our fourteenth focus for this season is the 2018 sugar tax introduced in the UK. In our first article, Professor Karen Throsby writes about the sugar tax as a policy that over-promised the benefits it…