Many manufactured food and drink products contain high levels of sugar, which causes many health problems. Sugary products should be made more expensive to encourage people to consume less sugar. Do you agree or disagree?

The growing discourse surrounding health problems that may be caused by products containing 1a high level of sugarhigh level of sugar has garnered widespread attention. However, I must challenge the argument that sugary products should be priced higher to encourage people to consume less sugar, a position compromised by unsustainable solution and 2economicenocomic drawbacks.

3Raising pricesRising the price could 4exert a detrimental impact on related enterprises and the economyexert detrimental impact on related enterprises and economy. First, companies may 5run into troublefall into troubled by reduction of sales on sugary products if the 6price rises, especially for snack manufacturersprice rises especially for those snack manufacturers. To elaborate, consumers who are obsessed with high-sugar products could be easily influenced by the price level, because those products are not necessities like rice and salt, leading to 7a reduction in purchasesreduction on purchasing and profit losses of companies. As a result, it is obviously a disaster for related businesses and even the entire economy.

8Another major drawback is limited impact of rising price will not work on specific group of people and special sorts of product. 9For 10instanceintance, a morning runner or 11an employeea staff in a hectic schedule, who aims to purchase a chocolate bar or some candies to recharge their energy, the former may ignore the price directly due to their exhausted body, the latter may look for other 12substitutessubstitudes. Thus, making sugary 13productsproduct more expensive will not eliminate consumers' 14demand; instead, it causes plenty of problemsdemands instead it caused plenty of problems. In terms of desserts, the fact is that the luxury products and brands emphasize reasonable sugar content, due to the preferences of their consumers who are more concerned about their diet than in the past. Thus, making them more expensive is 15ineffective in this sectorworthless in this industry.

In contrast, it is useful for drinks like boba milk tea, where sugar level does not change the flavour as estimated. Furthermore, consumers are sensitive to price change of those products. By adjusting price, people will shift to buy the less-sugar drinks. Admittedly, manipulating prices could change consumers' behaviours to consume less sugar. However, it is not a sustainable solution. Drinks like Coca Cola are classified into different sorts according to their sugar level, such as original version and zero sugar, and the latter one led a trend on social media and became popular among young people, potentially 16raisingraise their awareness of healthy diet. That is to say, the notion and mindset per se is 17the key to solving this issuethe root to solve this issue.

To conclude, I disagree with rising price due to limited range and negative impact.