The first step in understanding food labels is to know what information is required by law. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), there are several mandatory components of a food label ...

The math it took to calculate the number of calories in your favorite snack involved a lot more guesstimation than you may ...

Nutrition labels give information about calories, serving sizes, and nutrients. Understanding what labels mean can help people choose foods and drinks to support a healthy weight and reduce the risk ...

It should soon be easier for consumers to tell which foods are "healthy." The Food and Drug Administration Thursday updated the criteria food and drink items must meet to merit a "healthy" label on ...

Patrick Nycz is President of NewPoint, a full-service food and beverage marketing agency, and author of Moving Your Brand Up the Food Chain. The U.S. government is being pressured to mandate ...

In A Nutshell Color-coded food labels using red and green outperform standard text-based nutrition labels at helping consumers accurately evaluate products. Red labels, signaling unhealthy nutrients, ...

Consumers want to be healthy. This has always been true to some extent, but lately this desire has been manifesting itself in strong interest in ingredients lists – consumers are increasingly looking ...

The FDA has announced the set of rules it proposes to enforce for manufacturers to claim that a food product is “healthy.” The proposed rules are a lot better than the labeling anarchy that currently ...

As the federal government moves to change rules for what foods can sport "healthy" labels, manufacturers are pushing back. Some of the biggest makers of cereals, frozen and packaged food have ...