News
Gender equality in the H2020 SWEET Project
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...
Meet Lucie Geurts: ILSI Europe
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...
Public health rationale for reducing sugar: Strategies and challenges
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...
Meet Lisa Heggie, newest member of WP 4
Lisa, it’s lovely to meet you. Please tell us a bit about yourself. I am a first-year PhD student at University College London, having taken up my position in January of 2020. Originally I am from Scotland’s east coast and I have lived in both Edinburgh and Glasgow...
June 2020 news bulletin
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...
SWEET Project Update: May 2020
Summary: context and overall objectives of the project The SWEET project has been designed to i) identify and address the barriers and facilitators to the use of sweeteners and sweetness enhancers (S&SEs) and ii) examine the risks and benefits of using S&SEs...
Non-caloric sweetener reduces signs of fatty liver disease in preclinical research study
Important new pre-clinical research from the USA shows that Stevia, a plant origin, non-caloric sweetener, can reduces signs of fatty liver disease. Childhood obesity is one of our greatest public health concerns, and more than 1/3 of children in Europe live with...
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 New Food Magazine....
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, older adults and people of any age who have serious underlying medical conditions or chronic...