Coca Cola Brings Sugar Alternatives To The Market

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Sechaba Brewery Holdings Limited said its associate company, Coca-Cola Beverages Botswana is rethinking its recipes to reduce sugar as the business moves to make low and no-sugar drink versions customers love, easier to find on the shelves.

This comes on the backdrop of the World Health Organisation’s current recommendation that consumers should limit their intake of added sugar to no more than 10% of their total energy consumption.

Presenting the group’s 2020 annual report, Sechaba Brewery managing director, Thabo Matthews said during the year under review, Coke without sugar was a priority pack and the focus area for 2020, and grew 18% as availability was improved across channels.

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Routine child vaccination imperative

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