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Calorie Control Council Announces 2025 Annual Meeting The Calorie Control Council (CCC) is excited to announce its 2025 Annual Meeting!Join us in Washington, DC from November 3–6 at the Yours Truly Hotel for three days of insightful discussions, engaging speakers, and timely topics shaping the future of our industry. Explore...

Louisiana’s proposed bans targeting low- and no-calorie sweeteners (LNCS), including acesulfame potassium (ace-k), aspartame, and sucralose, should be deeply concerning to not just Louisianian’s, but all Americans who deserve choice and tools to combat diseases such as diabetes. Acesulfame potassium, aspartame, and sucralose have all been rigorously reviewed and approved...

Scientific research is essential, but not every study should spark unnecessary concern, sparked by headlines which can cause more damage than good. This study’s limited findings, based on unrealistic conditions, do not reflect real-world consumption. Decades of rigorous research and global health authorities confirm that sucralose does not increase appetite....

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...