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 and sweetness enhancers (S&SEs) in the context of public health and safety, obesity, and sustainability.
The 5 year multidisciplinary project engages stakeholders from across the food chain — consumers, patients, health professionals, scientists, policy makers, and regulators — to address the role of sweeteners in weight control, and potentially move viable products to market. Stakeholders, including consumers, patients, health professionals, scientists, policy makers, and regulators will engage in the project.
Project Coordinators

Dr Jo Harrold is Dean of Psychology and a Senior Lecturer in Appetite and Obesity in the Department of psychological sciences, University of Liverpool.
She is a behavioural neur...Read More
Dr Jo Harrold
Dean of Psychology
Professor Jason Halford is Head of the School of Psychology, University of Leeds, and President of the European Association for the Study of Obesity. His research has focused on ...Read More
Professor Jason Halford
Chair in Biological Psychology and Health Behaviour, Head of Department Psychological Sciences
Science: More than 25 years of research in the prevention and treatment of obesity and the related diseases, type-2 diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. Main focus has been on nu...Read More
Professor Anne Raben
Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of CopenhagenReviewing evidence on risks and benefits of switching to alternate sweeteners
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 update.
Latest News
How do Sweeteners and Sweetness Enhancers affect appetite and endocrine responses?
Graham Finlayson, Professor, School of Psychology, University of Leeds (UK), WP2 co-chair. ‘Free sugars’ also known as...
SWEET Project Update
We are now in the final year of the SWEET Project. Professor Jason Halford, one of the project coordinators and...
The 30th Annual European Congress on Obesity: 17-20 May 2023
Interested in alternate sweeteners and their impact on sustainability and human health? You are cordially invited to...
Destination Tokyo: International Congress of Nutrition 2022
One of the SWEET project Prinicipal Investigators, Anne Raben, has been invited to participate in the upcoming...
Sweet Food Preferences and Associated Appetite Regulatory Mechanisms: Dominic O’Connor
Dominic O’Connor, a SWEET consortium member in Work Package 2 from the University of Leeds, has completed his PhD...
Sugar Sweeteners and Health: new research
We are pleased to share new research publication from the SWEET Project team. The paper here was developed within Work...