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Sugar reformulation: sweet but not so simple
Sugar expert, Julian M Cooper, discusses the challenges that sugar reformulation presents to new developers, and outlines examples of attempts made on different products in...
SWEET Team hard at work addressing COVID-19
COVID-19 is a new disease and there is now emerging information regarding risk factors for serious illness.
Based on currently available information and clinical expertise,...
Sweet Consortium Meeting, Surrey UK
The SWEET consortium gathered from 14th - 15 January 2020 at the Elm Grove Conference Centre, University of Roehampton, London. The team reviewed project progress...
SWEET Project at Obesity Week 2019
SWEET project information was made available to colleagues from dozens of countries and was discussed by consortium partner EASO at ObesityWeek 2019 in Las Vegas,...
Low/no calorie sweeteners: their role in calorie reduction and diabetes management
As rates of obesity and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) including diabetes and dental caries continue to increase worldwide and calorie and sugar reduction have become public...
Opportunity: PhD Studentship
EASO and SWEET are pleased to announce that applications are now invited for a European Commission funded 3-year PhD Studentship, linked to a large European...
Challenges for Food Databases in the Bioinformatics Era
SWEET is pleased to present at the upcoming International Food Data Conference in Lisbon, Portugal “Challenges for Food Databases in the Bioinformatics Era” 14-18 October...
Do low-calorie sweetened beverages help to control food cravings? Two experimental studies
A new paper from the University of Liverpool has found that frequent consumption of low-calorie sweetened (LCS) beverages may help people to eat less and...
New EC Horizon 2020 project “SWEET” investigates the implications of greater use of sweeteners and sweetness enhancers to replace sugar in the European diet.
Professor Richard Murphy of the Centre for Environment and Sustainability (CES) at the University of Surrey has provided us with information on this EC-funded project...