Therefore, a child having a cola bottle a day will take a speedy way to contracting diabetes, he warns.

A child’s daily requirement is four spoons, but a cola bottle has nine spoons, or 35 grams.

The minister has told the media that in view of this, he has introduced a colour barcode system indicating levels of sugar content for beverages from august 01.

He added that he would soon introduce legislation to apply this colour barcode system for other foods too.