Is the government about to classify healthy smoothies alongside cakes and confectionery?

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A a smoothie could be counted in the
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same way as a cake.
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>> Exactly, yeah. But the problem we've got
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is with the change in this model is the
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fiber which used to be a positive and
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the the natural sugars which all come
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from the fruit and veg didn't used to be
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counted in the same way they're now
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being counted. And so it's sucking us
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into that. Now, we've had some good news
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where they said, "Look, we won't drag
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you into the marketing guidelines and
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the promotional guidelines." But why I'm
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sat here is if if you think of a time
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where, you know, one in 10 children get
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their five a day, then when you actually
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have a company that does, you know, put
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stuff good stuff in a bottle and people
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recognize us for that. So most more 90%
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of people think that would be good for
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me, you're going to get this sort of
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change where we start getting labeled as
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high fat, salt, sugar. And I just don't
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think that's right.

Is the government about to classify healthy smoothies alongside cakes and confectionery?

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Is the government about to classify healthy smoothies alongside cakes and confectionery?

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