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Food consumption and composition data – do we know what sweeteners are in food?
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...
SWEET New Investigators Group
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...
Dietary guidelines and informed personal choice: Sugar, sweeteners and complexity
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...
Innovation Advisory Panel (IAP) meeting
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...
Webinar registration open: SWEET Project updates and findings 20 May, 2pm CET
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...
Take part in a SWEET Project Pilot
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...
Novel Sustainability Approach Applied to Sweetener Use in Foods
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...
Assessing the Sustainability of Sweeteners: request for input
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...
Three Questions: Meet Dr James Suckling
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...