SWEET, a European Commission Horizon 2020 funded project, is supported by a consortium of 29 pan-European research, consumer and industry partners, who will develop and review evidence on long term benefits and potential risks involved in switching over to sweeteners and sweetness enhancers (S&SEs) in the context of public health and safety, obesity, and sustainability.
The 5 year multidisciplinary project engages stakeholders from across the food chain — consumers, patients, health professionals, scientists, policy makers, and regulators — to address the role of sweeteners in weight control, and potentially move viable products to market. Stakeholders, including consumers, patients, health professionals, scientists, policy makers, and regulators will engage in the project.
Project Coordinators
Dr Jo Harrold is Dean of Psychology and a Senior Lecturer in Appetite and Obesity in the Department of psychological sciences, University of Liverpool.
She is a behavioural neur...Read More
Dr Jo Harrold
Dean of Psychology
Professor Jason Halford is Head of the School of Psychology, University of Leeds, and President of the European Association for the Study of Obesity. His research has focused on ...Read More
Professor Jason Halford
Chair in Biological Psychology and Health Behaviour, Head of Department Psychological Sciences
Science: More than 25 years of research in the prevention and treatment of obesity and the related diseases, type-2 diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. Main focus has been on nu...Read More
Professor Anne Raben
Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of CopenhagenReviewing evidence on risks and benefits of switching to alternate sweeteners
Latest News
SWEET Consortium member Lisa Heggie presents at the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behaviour
In July 2022, new research from SWEET Work Package 4 was shared at the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behaviour’s...
The H2020 SWEET Consortium: Jacco Bastings
The SWEET Summer School and annual consortium meeting were held in June 2022 in San Sebastian, Spain. Jacco Bastings,...
SWEET presents at American Diabetes Association Meeting
The SWEET Consortium was pleased to be represented at the American Diabetes Association 82nd scientific session in New...
Non-caloric Sweeteners and Metabolic Health: Ellen Blaak
A recent paper from the Elinav group at the Weizman Institute of Science (Cell, 2022) garnered quite some attention...
Invitation to participate: WHO public consultation on non-sugar sweeteners
Interested in alternate sweeteners? An opportunity to weigh in on the WHO public consultation is available. Join the...
How SWEET it is: alternate sweeteners, health and sustainability
We were delighted to join the summer school course “Sweeteners: health, obesity, safety and sustainability” in San...