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Supreme court: The bread in Subway's hot sandwiches is too sugary to be legally defined as bread

Supreme court: The bread in Subway's hot sandwiches is too sugary to be legally defined as bread

The Supreme Court has ruled that the bread in Subway's hot sandwiches is too sugary to be legally defined as bread.

Yesterday, the five-judge court found that the sandwiches could not be deemed a staple food which has a zero VAT rate.

It follows an appeal by Bookfinders LTD which owns a Subway franchise.

The court ruled that the bread in Subway's hot sandwiches falls outside the legal definition of bread because it has a sugar content of 10 percent of the weight of the flour in the dough.

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