The FDA provides guidance explaining food ingredient and packaging terms that help businesses better understand labels, ...

If you’ve ever found yourself mid supermarket shop staring down at the food labels, thinking, ‘Do I really know what’s in this stuff?’ you’re not alone. And with health experts now ramping up calls to ...

CHICAGO — Consumers for decades have relied on nutrition labeling far less than is generally believed, said Robert Lilienfeld, executive director at Sustainable Packaging Research, Information, and ...

In a world full of dietary trends and ever-evolving health advice, reading food labels remains one of the most reliable ways to make informed choices. Food labels reveal details beyond taste and ...

Food labels can be confusing, and telling the difference between similar-sounding claims on food packages is sometimes downright baffling. Does “multigrain” mean “whole grain”? Which will have less ...

Roughly nine years ago, while serving as Vice President for Food Safety at the world’s largest food retailer, I surveyed how many different date labels were used by food producers to convey that food ...

Ms. Morgan is a food systems consultant. Mr. Bittman is a former Opinion columnist and a special adviser on food at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. See more of our coverage in ...

When food manufacturers decide what to put on labels, they have one goal: to get you to buy the food. And the history of Americans’ diets can be read in the history of food labels. Whatever the ...

From non-GMO to gluten-free, here's what the most common food labels mean and who regulates each one. Korin Miller has spent nearly two decades covering food, health, and nutrition for digital, print, ...

Labels placed on fast food items highlighting their high climate impact may sway consumers to make more sustainable choices, new study results show. Food accounts for around one-third of all ...

You'll no longer see phrases like ‘expires on,’ ‘best before,’ or ‘sell by’ on most packaged foods sold in California—instead ...