If "sell by," "use by" and other food label dates seem confusing, there's a reason. Federal regulations do not require product dating labels except for infant formula, according to the U.S. Department ...

A potential FDA proposal would label Goldfish “medium” in saturated fat and sodium. (The placement and size of any U.S. label has yet to be determined.) The same product would bear stop-sign-shaped ...

By emphasizing nutrients most relevant to cardiovascular risk -- saturated fat, sodium, and added sugars, and facilitating ...

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 ...

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 ...

You want your patients to eat healthier. But American food labels don’t make that easy. A few diet and nutrition specialists offer tips for teaching your patients about food labels — including updated ...

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. Whether you shop for food in ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

A woman walks in an aisle of a Walmart supermarket in Houston, Texas, on May 15, 2025. Walmart on Thursday reported another solid quarter behind sales gains in the United States, but warned of higher ...

From the amount of calories and fat to protein and fibre, food labels contain a wealth of information. But do we understand them? WH investigates If you’ve ever found yourself mid supermarket shop ...