The nutrition facts label is meant to help consumers make healthy food choices, but all the numbers and measurements can be downright confusing. It’s also loaded with intimidating words, like “sugar”, ...

We often find people glancing at a nutrition label in grocery stores but only a small percentage of them can interpret the nutrition label correctly. With the variety of packaged food available ...

For more than a century, the U.S. government has tried to bring more transparency to food labels. It started in 1906, when the Pure Food and Drug Act cracked down on mislabeled ingredients and false ...

Whether you’re looking at the serving size, amount of carbohydrates or ingredients list, it can be challenging to understand the nutrition labels on food and drinks. Vanessa Rissetto, a registered ...

The Food and Drug Administration created the Nutrition Facts label in 1993. The serving sizes that appear on labels today were originally determined by how much food people consumed during the periods ...

Reading the nutrition labels on your foods is now more informative. In 2020, the Food and Drug Administration required updated information and refreshed the label design to make it easier for ...

The Nutrition Facts label found on packaged foods contains crucial information about a food’s nutritional value and can help you make the right dietary choices. In 2021, in response to new scientific ...

In a recent study published in Nutrients, researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health in Austin explored how nutrition labels affect ...