Today, the idea that food packages can show us at a glance how many calories and grams of sugar a product has seems like a given, but the Nutrition Facts label didn’t exist 50 years ago.

The Nutrition Facts label, that black and white information box found on nearly every packaged food product in the U.S. since 1994, has recently become an icon for consumer transparency.

Today, the idea that food packages can show us at a glance how many calories and grams of sugar a product has seems like a given, but the Nutrition Facts label didn’t exist 50 years ago.

The Nutrition Facts label, that black and white information box found on nearly every packaged food product in the U.S. since 1994, has recently become an icon for consumer transparency.. From ...

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A 2021 survey of the 150 top US beer and wine brands found that only 28 percent of former and none of the latter featured a full “Serving Facts” label. Just one beer at the time had an ...

The proposal, expected in the coming months, would put key nutrient details on the front of food in addition to the label on the back. It faces resistance from food trade associations.

The Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Nutrition has a tendency to cling to bad policies and reject any new ideas. So it was back in the 1990s, and so it is now—a couple of decades later ...

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

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