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.
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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 CopenhagenHow Sweet it is: Key Findings from the EU SWEET Project
Latest News
Effect of sweeteners and sweetness enhancers on weight management and gut microbiota composition in individuals with overweight or obesity: the SWEET study
This research, based on a multi centre randomised control trial, looked at the use of sweeteners and sweetness enhancers (S&SE) instead of sugar can help people with weight maintenance following weight loss - and how this might affect gut health. More than 340 adults and 38 children with overweight or obesity first followed a low-calorie diet for two months and lost at least 5% of their...
SWEET at ECO2024
Join us for the SWEET Project Symposium at ECO2024, where we will present and discuss project findings. We look...
SWEET Project Newsletter – Winter 2023
The SWEET Project Newsletter for Winter 2023 is now available to read online.
SWEET Project symposium at FENS 2023 on the role of non- or low-energy sweeteners for obesity, health, safety and sustainability
The SWEET Consortium recently attended the 14th European Nutrition Conference FENS 2023 on November 14-17 in Belgrade,...
A Suite of Sweeteners in SWEET
James Suckling, Research Fellow, Centre for Environment and Sustainability & Institute for Sustainability,...
Did you know? Sweeteners Can Replace the Sweet Taste of Sugar with a Lower Environmental Impact
Consuming too much added sugar is not just a health issue but is also a concern for our environment. Non-nutritive...
SWEET Consortium position: WHO guideline on non-sugar sweeteners
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently issued a "conditional recommendation" on non-sugar sweeteners (NSS),...
Editor’s Choice publication in Obesity
SWEET partners have published a recent article in the journal Obesity which has been selected as Editor’s Choice. The...
SWEET Project Partners Showcase Research and Prototypes at Vitaconnect Event in Dijon
On April 6th, 2023, the Vitaconnect event in Dijon, France, hosted two insightful workshops led by partners of the...
WHO Guideline on the use of non-sugar sweeteners
New World Health Organisation(WHO) guidelines to reduce free sugars includes a conditional recommendation that...