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...
During the past decade, sugar reduction has been a keen interest within the commercial food industry. But what are the impacts of replacing sugar with sweeteners? The SWEET project, an EU-funded H2020 project, will develop and review evidence on long term benefits and...
As part of the H2020 Sweet project Dr Paul Christiansen is running a pilot study to conduct a comprehensive psychometric evaluation of a scale that aims to measure attitudes towards sweeteners. The results from this work will feed in to a pan-European survey exploring...
SWEET is investigating the ramifications for replacing added sugar within food and drink products with sweeteners and sweetness enhancers. Part of that research is the sustainability of making the change. In order to do this, the environmental, social and economic...
On behalf of EU Horozon 2020 funded project SWEET, we have the pleasure of inviting you to contribute to a process of stakeholder engagement on “Assessing the sustainability of sweeteners”.SWEET is developing and reviewing evidence on long-term benefits and potential...
James, it’s great to meet with you. Please tell us about your work and your role in the SWEET project. I work in the Centre for Environment and Sustainability, at the University of Surrey in the UK. My role within the SWEET Project is to understand the sustainability...
The SWEET Consortium is pleased to introduce you to colleague and project partner Heleen Claringbould from Corepage. Heleen, tell us about Corepage. Corepage stands for Consult and Research in Participation and Gender. It is a bureau, involved in different...
What is your role in the project? In the SWEET project I am involved in work package 6 on ‘Stakeholder Engagement, Dissemination and Commercial Exploitation’. ILSI Europe is the SWEET Innovation Manager, which is a key role in the project aiming to identify and engage...
The continuing global increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity, particularly amongst children, attracts widespread public and political attention. Obesity is a complex condition, with multi‐faceted determinants, and prevention strategies require...
