Nutrition labels on your favorite grocery items may soon sport a new look. The Food and Drug Administration announced a new proposal Tuesday that would require food and drink manufacturers to ...

Nutrition labels are intended to help you choose good ... If a snack says its flavor is “chocolate fudge mocha birthday cake flavor,” Coleman jokes, but it claims to have no sugar, you might ...

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.

This week, the Food and Drug Administration unveiled a long-awaited proposal that would require food and drink manufacturers to display nutrition labels on the front of most of their packages ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has tentatively proposed a big change to food labels in the U.S., including some nutrition information on the front of packages. The new feature is designed ...

Calories. The number of calories listed on a food label tells you how many calories are in one serving. It’s important to remember that even small packages often contain more than one serving.

Nutrition labeling is a relatively recent phenomenon in the U.S., only existing in its current iconic black-and-white panel ...

The Food and Drug Administration proposed Tuesday to put a smaller nutrition label highlighting saturated fat, sodium and added sugar on the front of food packaging. The FDA wants to focus on ...

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. Nutrition labels can look a little overwhelming, but they’re actually fairly simple. Learning how to read a food label is a ...

In Chile, for example, a stop sign symbol on the front of an item indicates if it has high sugar, saturated fat, sodium or calories. In Israel, there’s a red warning label on such food and drinks.