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The Calorie Control Council supports the findings of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on saccharin.  The review conducted by the EFSA Panel on Food Additives and Flavourings on saccharin examined all available research on saccharin, considering both short-term and long-term effects. This review assessed the potential impact of saccharin...

A new study entitled, "Xylitol is prothrombotic and associated with cardiovascular risk", was recently published in the European Heart Journal.  The investigators conducted four separate studies. They began with untargeted metabolomics analyses in a discovery cohort and report circulating levels of a polyol tentatively assigned as xylitol, were associated with...

A new study entitled, "The Artificial Sweetener Neotame Negatively Regulates the Intestinal Epithelium Directly Through T1R3-Signaling and Indirectly Through Pathogenic Changes to Model Gut Bacteria", was recently published in the Frontiers in Nutrition journal. Led by investigators out of Jahangirnagar University and Angela Ruskin University, the objective of this study was to...

A new observational study was published in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology in which the authors sought to explore potential links between sweetened beverage consumption and risk of atrial fibrillation and other irregular heart rhythms. The authors utilized a UK-based cohort and looked at sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB), artificially sweetened beverage (ASB), and...

Managing U.S. Sugar Intake Through Low and No-Calorie Sweeteners Business for Impact at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business developed this whitepaper to evaluate the role low- and no-calorie sweeteners (LNCS) can play in achieving public health recommendations to reduce added sugars in the diet. This new paper increases understanding about the...

A new study, “Non-Nutritive Sweetened Beverages Versus Water After a 52-week Weight Management Program: A Randomized Controlled Trial,” set out to compare the effects of non-nutritive sweetened (NNS) beverages and water on body weight. As part of the larger SWITCH study, the current study was published in the Obesity Journal, and reports results following both the...