New Non-Sugar Sweetener Guideline from the World Health Organization
What’s happening?
The World Health Organization recently released the Use of Non-Sugar Sweeteners: WHO Guideline (1). The guideline is based on a 2022 systemic review (2) that used GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluations) to summarize the evidence and make a practice recommendation.
Analysis
A total of 283 studies conducted in adults, children, pregnant women or mixed populations were included in the systematic review (50 RCTs, 144 prospective cohort...