The story has been corrected to attribute information from Every Texan to its food policy analyst Amber O’Connor and that sweetened beverages cannot have more than 5 grams of added sugar in total.

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Julie Chang is an award-winning journalist overseeing coverage of the most pressing health policy impacts on Texans. She started her career at the Beaumont Enterprise and continued at the Austin American-Statesman,...