Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Key Takeaways Check the Nutrition Facts label for sodium, added sugars, and ...

The labeling of added sugar on food labels, which became mandatory in the U.S. by 2021, may reduce demand for and consumption ...

Words like “natural” and “gluten-free” sound healthy, but they rarely tell the whole story.

The US Food and Drug Administration is proposing that nutrition information be placed on the front of packaged foods to provide at-a-glance information about saturated fat, sodium and added sugar.

Since nutrition-facts labeling was first introduced by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in 1973, the back of the box has been a controversial space. Countless FDA rule changes, congressional ...

I’ve been a dietitian for decades, but I don’t stand in the grocery aisle carefully reading every line of every Nutrition ...

A study of nearly 150,000 products found that more than 50 percent included health claims on their packages, but two-thirds ...

The FDA is delaying implementation of a rule that would require food companies to print nutritional information on the front labels of their products. The proposed rule was developed by President ...

For more than a century, the U.S. government has tried to bring more transparency to food labels. It started in 1906, when the Pure Food and Drug Act cracked down on mislabeled ingredients and false ...

You might expect your body to treat them pretty much the same way. But food is more than its nutrition label. In a randomized, controlled study, researchers compared meals with nearly identical ...

Dariush Mozaffarian’s Food Is Medicine challenges nutrition’s focus on what to cut, urging readers to build meals around ...

Announced recently by the FDA, it’s the most significant overhaul of nutrition labels on packaged foods in the United States in over two decades. The biggest change in labeling has to do with added ...