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An investigation by the group Action on Sugar has unveiled some startling statistics regarding the sugar content of many High Street coffee drinks. Following analysis of over 130 hot drinks, the charity found a third contained at least as much sugar as a standard cola drink – that’s a whopping nine teaspoons! As if that wasn’t bad enough, some beverages in the test contained over 20 teaspoons of sugar, an alarming amount that would receive an instant red nutritional value label for high sugar content. The worst offenders on the list included Starbucks’ Hot mulled fruit – grape with chai,...