Sentences with phrase «soft drinks have»

Now, soft drinks have been added to this taxing mix.

In the time between announcing this policy and it taking effect today, more than half of all soft drinks have been reformulated to lower the sugar content, including many of the best known soft drinks.

Almost all soft drinks have HFCS, and while I'm not a big soda fan, I do like one every now and again.

Soda and soft drinks have loads of sugar and some contain aspartame that is no good for your body.

Soft drinks have been labeled as the main culprit as many scientists begin to try and pin - point the sugary villain.

Artificially sweetened beverages like diet soft drinks have been positioned as a healthful alternative to sugar - sweetened beverages.

And what you'll see when you read the news is that soft drinks have become a soft target for health campaigners.

According to Beverage Digest, sales of full - calorie soft drinks have declined by 12.5 percent from 1999 to 2010.

It's also important to recognize that, despite the authors» suggestion, sales of soft drinks have actually declined by nearly 12 percent since 2000, due in part to the beverage industry's innovation in bringing more no - calorie, low - calorie and smaller - portion beverage options to market.

Carbonated soft drinks have been losing «share of throat» to bottled water for the past eight years, according to Retail World figures.

Carbonated soft drinks have been on the decline for a decade, driven by consumer concerns over the sugar — mostly in the form of high - fructose corn syrup — and the explosion of alternatives.

Even if it winds up being little more than a marketing stunt, the move may prove to be a boon for PepsiCo, as soda sales in the U.S. have been flagging recently — carbonated soft drinks have seen their sales plummet 14 % in the past nine years.

Sales of carbonated soft drinks have dropped 14 % over nine years, and Pepsi's market share has fallen too.

«Fundamentally, it's important to question what the introduction of health warnings on soft drinks would actually achieve.

«Conversely, three out of four of the top - selling soft drinks in Australia are low kilojoule, and the amount of sugar consumed through soft drinks has already dropped in recent years in Australia, while obesity continues to rise.

The latest Australian Beverage Trends Report highlights that total sugar contribution from soft drinks has dropped by around a quarter (26 %) for each person over the past 15 year1», Mr Parker said.

As a result, sugar contribution from carbonated soft drinks has dropped between 1997 and 2011 by 26 % per capita as consumers switch from sugar - sweetened to non-sugar sweetened soft drink.

Ipsos research commissioned by the Australian Beverages Council shows around two - thirds of Australians agree that a tax on soft drinks would be ineffective in reducing obesity and the majority of those surveyed were against the introduction of such a tax.

With innovation a continued focus Britvic Soft Drinks has announced a new product that will offer consumers a tasty way to keep their thirst quenched on - the - go from the Great Britain leading squash brand, Robinsons.

Over the last 15 years in fact, sugar contribution from soft drinks has decreased by 26 % per person while obesity rates continue to climb.

In Australia only 1.8 % of the daily intake of kilojoules for adults comes from soft drinks.1 In fact, recent independent studies by the Australian Bureau of Statistics have shown the amount of sugar consumed through soft drinks has dropped while obesity continues to rise.

«Moreover, sugar contribution from carbonated soft drinks has dropped by around a quarter (26 %) per person as consumers switch from sugar - sweetened to non-sugar sweetened soft drink,» concludes Parker.

Media Statement 10 November 2014 Australians don't support another tax on the supermarket trolley latest research shows Ipsos research commissioned by the Australian Beverages Council shows around two - thirds of Australians agree that a tax on soft drinks would be ineffective in reducing obesity and the majority of those surveyed were against the introduction of such a tax.

In America per capita consumption of soft drinks has fallen about 25 per cent since peaking at about 200 litres per person in the 1990s.

Sugar contribution from carbonated soft drinks has dropped by around a quarter (26 %) for each person as consumers switch from sugar - sweetened to non-sugar sweetened soft drink

In fact, sugar consumption through soft drinks has dropped by 26 per cent over the last 15 years [2] while obesity continues to rise.

Over the last 15 years, sugar per person from soft drinks has decreased by 26 per cent.

«In Australia, only 1.8 per cent of the daily intake of kilojoules comes from soft drinks1 and the amount of sugar consumed through soft drinks has in fact dropped while obesity continues to rise.

In Mexico, business owners warn that the tax on sugar sweetened soft drinks has affected the competitiveness of the industry, leading to the loss of 1700 jobs since the tax was introduced in 2014.

The type of HFCS used in soft drinks has about the same amount of fructose as sugar, and is essentially the same as sugar.

Picture us on a hill in Big Sur singing the 1971 «Buy - the - world - a-Coke» song recently featured in Mad Men, only instead of selling soft drinks we'd be preparing for a Battle Field Earth type smackdown with a bunch of flesh gnawing Extra Terrestrials who have NO IDEA just who they are messing with.

Anyone living on pizza and soft drinks would obviously get all these problems.

The test results indicated that an average soft drink has concentrations of BPA around half a part per billion, or 500 times more than the level of the female hormone in people.

Not exact matches

However, 45 percent of those drinking less diet soft drinks suggested they would possibly consume more «if they were healthier» and 30 percent said they would do so «if they were made with a natural sweetener like stevia.»

Chicago already has a tax on retail sales of soft drinks in cans or bottles and on wholesale syrups for fountain drinks.

The former finds inspiration from a carbonated soft drink industry that has seen 12 straight years of sales declines in the U.S. as consumers buy more bottled water and other healthier drinks.

Big Food companies have lost share to upstart brands and have struggled to adapt to a move away from sugary soft drinks.

Soft drink consumption is flattening overall and Coca - Cola's sales have been declining, down 15 percent in the most recent quarter.

Rather than puzzle over soft drink sizes, many consumers simply pick a size and stick with it, ordering a medium or a large at every restaurant even though these words have different meanings depending on the establishment.

In March, finance minister George Osborne made the surprise announcement that Britain would introduce a tax on soft drinks starting in 2018 in an effort to fight obesity.

Soft drink and beer companies have it pretty easy.

Keurig Green Mountain Inc., the company behind the popular single - serving coffee maker, announced yesterday it would pay US$ 18.7 billion for Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, the soft - drink company.

For decades, Coke and Pepsi have been wrestling for soft - drink supremacy.

The Coca - Cola Co (NYSE: KO) and PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) may have to reinvent themselves soon if they are to survive and flourish, as the tide turns against soft drinks and toward hard soda.

The chain has stated that there is likely corn syrup made from GMO corn in its soft drinks and that meat and dairy may come from suppliers who feed GMO grains to the animals.

workers who get LARGE SALERIES & a small portion goes to the poor in the form of a hand out - much at times to be used on luxeries like cigarettes, candy, soft drinks & other things that they would be better off without.

In today's consumer - oriented, capitalistic culture, where people are used, abused and disposed of like nonreturnable soft - drink cans, where «liberation» has been invoked to justify selfishness, it may be that the time has come for the church to say again what it has always believed — that there is no way for individuals to «flourish» without the kind of communion and community and the permanent, deep, risky commitment that true Christian love demands — qualities that are perhaps best experienced in the yoking of a man and a woman in marriage.

The past 2 years I have given up soft drinks.

Consequently, when I see people reading an article or a news item on Israel, I react like a conscientious parent whose only child has developed an addiction to junk food; I want to sneak a few vitamins into the soft drinks and candy bars.

Hi Sam Thank you for this post, I have something to share with you and I need help One week ago, I've meet a homeless he sleeps on the street, I woke him up, and told him that I'll buy food, he told me that he also wants cigarettes So I bought cigarettes, sandwich and a soft drink I gave him all these, and tried to talk with him; I asked if he is cold to bring him a cover, he said «No», he took cigarettes and said he do nt need food, he wants only to smoke and drink alcohol, after a minute I left and I heard him talking to the grocer and he told him to take food and to give him cigarettes and lighter in exchange!