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.
