Jamie Oliver’s suggested sugar tax will become a reality in two years’ time, we found out during Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget – but it’s left the celebrity chef open to a fair bit of criticism.

He’s been labelled the “nanny of the nanny state” online by people who disagree with the tax purely on principle, but he’s also being called a hypocrite by anyone who’s ever visited his website or bought one of his books.

How’s that? Well, a number of Oliver’s recipes suggest quantities of sugar that would be taxed under the new levy.

The sugar tax has two bands. One for drinks with total sugar content above 5g grams per 100ml, and a higher rate for more than 8g per 100ml. That would make this cake, which has 61% of your daily sugar intake in each serving, highly taxable.

This recipe recommends that to serve 10 you use 200g of sugar. That’s roughly the same amount of sugar as you’d find in 18 cans of Coca-Cola – a product that will fit into the top band of the levy as a result of the 10.6g you consume in each can.

A recipe for Jamie Oliver's holiday citrus slushies
(JamieOliver.com)

The slushies weren’t the only cocktails found to have an inordinate amount of sugar in them. This one contains three tablespoons of the refined stuff.

You might expect a ginger, treacle and ice cream cake to have quite a bit of sugar in – but this much per serving seems a bit excessive to some people.

This party cake also relies heavily on that now-taxable white powder – just one serving contains 32.5g of sugar, way over the 19g children aged four to six are recommended and still higher than the 24g limit for seven- to 10-year-olds.

Perhaps rightly, people are also questioning how common an occurrence it is for children to return home from school to cook a Jamie Olivier dessert.

They’re probably also not likely to go home and cook ham – even if cooking ham in Coke would sound appealing.

But having just a slice of this Christmas cake would be likely to make any child, or even adult, bounce off the walls.

Some people’s problem isn’t necessarily with the man’s recipes, but with the man himself.

And that’s particularly true of the people who were in school during Jamie Oliver’s crusade against sweets, crisps and fizzy drinks in vending machines, which led to them being completely removed from secondary schools in 2009.

Other food like sausage rolls, pizzas and burgers were also removed – and if the people who lived through those changes are still holding a grudge, Oliver should expect the kids on the end of the new sugar tax to do the same.