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Sweets & Snacks

Boka Cereal Bars Now 100% Vegan & HFSS Compliant

Boka cereal bars have been reformulated to make them suitable for vegans. All four flavours — Strawberry, Choco Mallow, Caramel, and Apple & Cinnamon — are now free of animal products. The bars also feature new-look packaging which highlights their health benefits — they score green on the traffic light system for total fat, saturated fat, sugar, and salt. Boka claims to be the only snack bar brand in the UK to achieve green scores across the board. This means that Boka is compliant with the UK’s new HFSS (high fat, sugar, and salt) legislation, set to come into force in October. Very few cereal bar brands are compliant, meaning they will face restrictions on where and how they can market their products. The rebranded …

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Pri’s Puddings Becomes “UK’s First HFSS Compliant Confectionery Brand”

From October, HFSS (high in fat, sugar, and salt) legislation in the UK will restrict many snack producers from marketing their products. But this won’t apply to Pri’s Puddings, which claims to be the country’s first HFSS compliant confectionery brand. Under the new rules, products will need to meet certain nutritional benchmarks in order to be featured in promotions and advertisements. Currently, 97% of confectionery brands do not meet these requirements. But plant-based company Pri’s Puddings has become one of the first to reformulate its products to make them HFSS compliant. For example, each snack in the brand’s Pocket-Sized Pies range contains just five whole-food ingredients. Inspired by American desserts, the Pocket-Sized Pies come in the flavours Pecan, Peanut Butter, Cashew, and Choco. They now …

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