The Action on Sugar group surveyed milkshakes sold in restaurants and fast food shops in the UK and found they contained "grotesque levels of sugar and calories".
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Freakshakes are milkshakes that also contain chocolates, sweets, cake, cream and sauce.
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LONDON:
A UK-based campaign group has
demanded a ban on freakshakes and all milkshakes with more than 300 calories in
the country.
Freakshakes are milkshakes that
also contain chocolates, sweets, cake, cream and sauce, the news agency BBC
reported yesterday.
The Action on Sugar group
surveyed milkshakes sold in restaurants and fast food shops in the UK and found
they contained "grotesque levels of sugar and calories".
The Unicorn Freakshake by British
restaurant chain Toby Carvery topped the survey with 39 teaspoons of sugar or
1,280 calories. It is made with grape and raspberry flavoured ice cream,
blackcurrant jelly pieces, milk, freshly whipped cream and topped with
marshmallow, skittles and almond macaroon.
That is more than half the daily
recommended amount of calories for an adult and over six times the amount of
sugar recommended for seven to 10-year-olds.
It is the equivalent of drinking
more than four cans of cola.
The British Heart Foundation
calculates an average 25-year-old would need to jog for nearly three hours or
vacuum the house for five hours to burn off the calories.
The researchers found that many
other shakes contain more than half the daily recommended amount of calories
for an adult.
Action on Sugar, which is made up
of specialists concerned with sugar and its effects on health, have called for
mandatory traffic light-coloured nutrition labelling across all menus.
The government is currently
consulting on menu calorie labelling.
Freakshakes were invented in
Australia, but have become increasingly popular in the UK in recent years and
with their photogenic qualities are a popular posting on social media.
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Source: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/grotesquely-sugary-uk-based-group-calls-for-ban-on-freakshakes-1946485
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