'Healthy' snacks for kids contain more sugar than Haribo sweets

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Several leading brands of "healthy" fruit snacks aimed at children contain more sugar than Haribo sweets, a study has revealed.

More than four teaspoons of sugar was found in a small packet of Tesco's yogurt coated strawberry fruit bites, Fruit Bowl's raspberry 'Fruit Flakes' and Whitworth's 'Sunny Raisin' custard coated raisins.

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