Consuming too much added sugar is not just a health issue but is also a concern for our environment. Non-nutritive sweeteners (NNSs), like aspartame and neotame, may offer a solution. Although health issues around alternate sweeteners are often discussed, their...
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently issued a “conditional recommendation” on non-sugar sweeteners (NSS), sparking discussions and concerns regarding their potential impact on human health. This guideline is based on a comprehensive systematic...
SWEET partners have published a recent article in the journal Obesity which has been selected as Editor’s Choice. The research represents a sub-study of SWEET WP3. We were pleased to interview lead author Michelle Pang to discuss the paper, The effect of weight loss...
On April 6th, 2023, the Vitaconnect event in Dijon, France, hosted two insightful workshops led by partners of the “SWEET Project”. The workshops highlighted the project’s research findings and product developments to an audience of food industry...
New World Health Organisation(WHO) guidelines to reduce free sugars includes a conditional recommendation that non-sugar sweeteners not be used for achieving weight control or reducing the risk of NCDs. The full report has received significant media attention and some...
Highlights and commentary from the SWEET Project innovation and advisory panel discussion on innovation and application of sweeteners and sweetness enhancer blends The EU SWEET Project team was pleased to host members of the SWEET project consortium and industry...
Thaumatin: a sweetness enhancer that can reduce the quantity and environmental impact of added sugar in food and beverage and benefit rural West African communities A new study undertaken as part of the SWEET Project https://sweetproject.eu and led by the University...
Abstract deadline extended to June 10th 2023. There is still time to submit your abstract to FENS2023! Submit across the following tracks: Nutrition across the life course Nutrition, metabolism and chronic diseases Dietary studies, guides and recommendations New...
Scientists from the EU SWEET project recently conducted research to see how making alternate sweeteners from stevia plants affects the environment compared to making sugar. They found that making sweetener from stevia is better for the environment because it uses less...
SWEET Project consortium member Edith Feskens weighs in Recent news stories have reported that the low-calorie sweetener erythritol has been linked to an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. Sweeteners, including erythritol, are used in foods to replace sugar...
Phase One investigation in SWEET Project WP2 published in Appetite A new manuscript was published this week, describing some outcomes from the EU funded SWEET Project (https://sweetproject.eu/). This research was part of Work Package 2 Phase 1, in which investigators...
Everyone seems to be talking about the new study published in Nature Medicine warning that Erythritol, a popular alternate sweetener, may contribute to clogged arteries and strokes. Dr Santiago Navas Carretero a member of the SWEET Project consortium from The...
We are pleased to invite you to join members of the SWEET Project Consortium for the 5th (and final) Innovation Advisory Panel will be an in-person event with remote participation options held on Thursday 6th April 2023 from 11.00 to 13.00 CEST in Dijon, France as...
“Since we know that many aspects of the organization of science, especially peer review are affected by gender bias it is of utmost importance to the science and society dialogue that the compositions of boards are gender balanced.” (Osborn et al, 2000) Implicit bias...
Graham Finlayson, Professor, School of Psychology, University of Leeds (UK), WP2 co-chair. ‘Free sugars’ also known as ‘added sugars’ are defined as those sweet carbohydrates (e.g., sucrose, dextrose) included during the manufacturing process as well as those...
We are now in the final year of the SWEET Project. Professor Jason Halford, one of the project coordinators and president of the European Association for the Study of Obesity shares a brief...
Interested in alternate sweeteners and their impact on sustainability and human health? You are cordially invited to join ECO 2023 in Dublin. Members of the SWEET consortium will be involved in the most prominent meeting on obesity in Europe. Registration is open;...
One of the SWEET project Prinicipal Investigators, Anne Raben, has been invited to participate in the upcoming International Congress of Nutrition (ICN) in Tokyo and will present on Tuesday 6 December, 2022 9-11am local time in the symposium Changing guidelines on...
Dominic O’Connor, a SWEET consortium member in Work Package 2 from the University of Leeds, has completed his PhD project. Dominic’s thesis, ‘Sweet Food Preferences and Associated Appetite Regulatory Mechanisms’ has two primary contributing studies examining sweet...
We are pleased to share new research publication from the SWEET Project team. The paper here was developed within Work Package 4 and is based on findings from the Lifelines Cohort Study in 2022 on the association between sugar-sweetened beverages, low/no calorie...
The SWEET New Investigators Group was initiated to develop and improve collaboration between the early career professionals in EU H2020 Project SWEET, which investigates the long-term benefits and potential risks of using sweeteners and sweetness enhancers to support...
Join the International Food Information Council (IFIC) for a free webinar, Gut Check: Low- and No-Calorie Sweeteners and the Gut Microbiome November 10, 20222pm ET60 minute live webinarRegistration required Reducing consumption of added sugars is a recommendation made...
James Suckling, Research Fellow, Centre for Environment and Sustainability, University of Surrey (UK) Sweeteners are often discussed in terms of their health and safety, with many narratives surrounding potential positive and negative aspects, whether measured or...
In July 2022, new research from SWEET Work Package 4 was shared at the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behaviour’s 29th Annual Meeting held in Porto, Portugal. Lisa Heggie, PhD student working as part of SWEET Work Package 4 and University College London’s Obesity...
The SWEET Summer School and annual consortium meeting were held in June 2022 in San Sebastian, Spain. Jacco Bastings, PhD student based at Maastricht University and a key contributor to SWEET Work Package 2, commented on the three-day event as a member of the SWEET...
The SWEET Consortium was pleased to be represented at the American Diabetes Association 82nd scientific session in New Orleans Michelle Pang, PhD-student in Maastricht involved in WP3, was invited as a speaker to present a live-streamed mini-symposium about...
A recent paper from the Elinav group at the Weizman Institute of Science (Cell, 2022) garnered quite some attention across scientific and popular media around adverse effects of non-caloric sweeteners and their negative health impact. The research question is whether...
Interested in alternate sweeteners? An opportunity to weigh in on the WHO public consultation is available. Join the webinar, share a comment, participate! This is a public consultation open to all: View...
We were delighted to join the summer school course “Sweeteners: health, obesity, safety and sustainability” in San Sebastián Spain 27-29 June 2022 alongside local hosts J. Alfredo Martínez, S Navas Carretero and fellow Prinicpal Project Investigarors J Harrold and A...
What is the role of sweeteners in weight control? The 5 year multidisciplinary EU H2020 project SWEET engages stakeholders from across the food chain including consumers, patients, health professionals, scientists, policy makers, and regulators — to address this...
Since July 2021, the SWEET New Investigators Group has convened monthly to support networking and promote research collaboration among the early career professionals involved in the EU SWEET Project. During each meeting, a different researcher from one of the six...
The SWEET Consortium will host our fourth innovation advisory panel (IAP) meeting on the afternoon of June 15, 2022. Stakeholders, including researchers and academics with an interest in food, health sustainability and sweeteners, patients, consumers, food...
The SWEET consortium was pleased to present an invited symposium at Zoom Forward 22, the 29th annual European Congress on Obesity held in Maastricht and online. Congress registration exceeded 2000 delegates. The SWEET project looks at alternate sweeteners and...
This new systematic review and meta analysis from Magali Rios-Leyvraz and Jason Montez was funded by the WHO and supported by the government of Japan and will form the basis for their upcoming recommendations. 283 studies were included in the review. Meta-analyses...
Interesting new study published in JAMA: Association of Low- and No-Calorie Sweetened Beverages as a Replacement for Sugar-Sweetened Beverages With Body Weight and Cardiometabolic Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis | Cardiology | JAMA Network Open | JAMA...
Jan 20, 2022 02:00 PMEastern Time (US and Canada) Low- and no-calorie sweeteners are some of the most studied ingredients in the history of our food supply. Decades of scientific study has assessed their safety for use in foods and beverages. Yet, even with the body...
SWEET is reviewing evidence of long-term benefits and potential risks involved in switching to S&SEs in the context of public health and safety, obesity, and sustainability. Prospective associations – food behaviours in the past with health status now – between...
The SWEET New Investigators Group met online for the first time on 19 July, bringing together international postgraduate and early career researchers from SWEET Work Packages 1 to 6. The overarching aim of the SWEET New Investigators Group is to facilitate regular...
Siân Astley, Senior Researcher & Communications Manager, EuroFIR AISBL, Brussels (BE) Perhaps surprisingly, food-based dietary guidelines date back to only the 1990s and, although public health has a longer timeline, advice about healthy living is still relatively...
The SWEET project has organised our third Innovation Advisory Panel (IAP) meeting, which will be held on 27th May 2021, from 14.00 to 17.30 CEST. Under the guidance of the SWEET Innovation Manager (ILSI Europe), IAPs meet annually to be updated on the project...
