Advocacy Group Calls for a Ban on “Freakshakes”

According to the BBC, advocacy group Action on Sugar has called for restaurants to stop serving “freakshakes,” milkshakes with added “chocolates, sweets, cake, cream and sauce.” The group reportedly surveyed restaurants for nutritional information on their freakshakes and found that some contained as many as 1,280 calories, or “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.” The group called on the U.K. government to “introduce legislation to force companies to be more transparent about what is in their products.”