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Home » News from Thailand » Thai government wants sugar tax to reduce sugar consumption
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Thailand wants a new law to take effect this year that sets a maximum of 10 percent for the amount of sugar in foods. When producers exceed this limit, more tax is levied on the product.
Currently, many products in Thailand contain 12 to 14 percent sugar, twice as much as is allowed in Europe, where a maximum of 6 percent applies.
Restricting the sugar percentage by means of a sugar tax is part of the food safety project of the FDA. She wants consumers to read product labels and become aware of the amounts of sugar, salt and fat in order to limit their consumption.
The Healthier Choice seal of approval from the FDA shows that a product does not contain too much sugar, salt and fat.
Source: Bangkok Post
What if they start changing the 3 in 1 coffee packaging? If you want milk and/or milk in your coffee, you should be able to do that yourself.
You just shouldn't buy that 3 in 1 and then your problem is solved anyway.
There are also with only coffee or 2 in 1 (coffee-milk)
Thank you Ronny for your solution. I had already found that out.
What I mean to say is, if you package everything together (coffee, milk and sugar), then the temptation is (too) great to buy that product instead of everything separately.
And the Thai like easy solutions!
Nescafe is simply available per pot at the major supermarkets, but the Thais love those 3 in 1 packages. Real freshly brewed coffee is of course much tastier.
Very easy.
That they ban the manufacturers above 10 percent and the matter is resolved.
But how can you impose a ban on the Thai, not even a hundred years.
I read that in Europe there is a maximum of 6% as the permitted amount of sugar in foods.
I don't believe any of this at all.
Hello French,
You're right!
There are sugars and sugars. Refined sugars, simple, multiple, syrup, etc.
Carbohydrates is in fact the collective name for all that is sugar.
The number of carbohydrates (carbohydrates) required to be stated on the label is the total amount of natural and added sugar that a product contains.
For biscuits, this will be an average of 70 g per 100 g of product, so about 70%. Classic coke usually too.
Vegetables such as tomatoes also contain (natural) sugars, about 4 percent. Or 4 gr per 100 gr tomato.
However, legumes are generally high in carbohydrates; about 20 gr per 100 gr for eg lentils.
Bread, pasta, potatoes, are on average 50 grams of carbohydrates per 100 grams.
In Thailand sometimes see rice served with fries, or grilled cheese sandwiches served with fries or pasta. So that's double portions of carbohydrates. That makes you twice as fat!
But canned vegetables or prepared vegetables, the industry adds extra sugar en masse as a seasoning. Hidden sugars so to speak!
Some people diet poor and keep putting on weight. But without realizing it, they load in the sugar with the shovel!
D.
If we can live with a maximum of 6% in Europe, it should still be possible for Thailand to cap it at 10%. This may require a little more time for manufacturers, but if the real goal is to reduce sugar consumption, then a sugar tax is simply a move to collect more tax money.
I won't grieve if the amount of sugar goes down.
The products in Thailand are generally much too sweet for me.
The question remains whether the government is concerned about people's health, or whether it is an ordinary tax increase.
I doubt whether people read the labels of the products.
Then you need to bring a magnifying glass.
In any case, I often can no longer read it, and probably many with me.
Often also because of the color scheme of the text and the background.
The only products in a 7/11 without sugar are water, soda and maybe an iced tea if you're lucky. Downright absurd amounts of sugar in almost every product . The consequences of this are also starting to become obvious in Thailand . Stand for half an hour at an average school and at least 25% of the children who come out are much too fat. Schoolyard is full of sales stands where they sell very sweet drinks.
It is high time that something is done about the much too high sugar intake. Taxes can not be high enough for me . Children don't know any better and the parents/adults have to take responsibility. Good information could already be a start .
I think Sprite has had its shortest time in Thailand, more than 2x as sweet as in NL (36 lumps p / ltr.!!)
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3255034/Coca-Cola-Pepsi-brands-differ-sugar-world.html
It is a small step in the right direction if at least they don't replace the sugar with other chemical junk (like in Europe) which is possibly even worse to avoid the extra tax. They remain manufacturers and they don't care about health.