The snacks and drinks that contain most sugar

These drinks, meals and snacks contain up to double the safe amount of sugar that experts believe adults should consume per day, Daily Mail reports. 

A single Starbucks caramel frappuccino has 11 teaspoons of sugar and a can of Coca-Cola or Pepsi has nine teaspoons, researchers have said.

This week the World Health Organisation recommended people should have no more than six teaspoons of sugar in 24 hours.

Doctors say this rule is key to avoiding obesity, heart disease and other serious illnesses because they fear sugar is as dangerous as tobacco.

Pressure group Action on Sugar has produced its own table of foods to make it clearer for consumers.

For example a 51g Mars Bar has eight teaspoons, a can of Red Bull has seven, a Muller strawberry shortcake Crunch Corner has six teaspoons and so does an Innocent smoothie.

The debate over the danger of sugar is raging and UN health chiefs have warned children should not be given fizzy drinks at all because they have dangerous sugar levels.

Graham MacGregor, a London cardiologist and health campaigner, said: ‘Added sugar is a completely unnecessary part of our diets, contributing to obesity, type II diabetes and tooth decay.'

New guidelines will now be discussed by academics and medical experts before a final version is published. But medical officials said food and drinks manufacturers should drastically alter their products.

Labour’s health spokesman Andy Burnham said his party was considering setting a legal maximum on the amount of sugar, fat and salt in foods aimed at children.