Saturated fat to be cut in chocolate products, makers say
Kit Kats and Oreos will become healthier, the government will say on Saturday, announcing that the companies making them have signed up to a "responsibility pledge" to cut the saturated fat the products contain. But the sugar levels in them will stay the same.
Days after the British Medical Journal ran an opinion piece from a cardiologist asserting that sugar and not saturated fat was the leading cause in the rise in heart disease and diabetes, the government announced the latest in its series of public health pledges with food manufacturers and supermarkets. This will, ministers say, remove the equivalent of one-and-a-half Olympic-sized swimming pools full of saturated fat from the national diet.