Just because information is available doesn’t mean it’s useful,” Dr. Deidre Popovich wrote in The Conversation.

On January 14, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a new requirement for all packaged foods to have a front-of-package (FOP) nutrition label. The FDA’s position is that the FOP ...

Every time you visit the grocery store, your brain is absorbing countless food-packaging cues. Those cues influence your choices more than you think.

The FDA is delaying implementation of a rule that would require food companies to print nutritional information on the front labels of their products. The ...

The labels will be available worldwide, and Apple will make more guidance available to developers on the criteria their apps ...

Rather than codify another flawed definition, the FDA should rethink whether government food labels belong on packages at all. What does “healthy” really mean? In just weeks, the Food and Drug ...

Global public health and safety organization NSF has issued key findings from a survey on the effectiveness of U.S. food ...

Ultimately, patients are responsible for selecting foods wisely based on the new product information, she said. Nancy Zawicki, RDN, LDN “We know food labels are one of the most underutilized ...

How confident are you that you take prescription drugs correctly? The instructions on the bottle's label may not seem to be hard to follow, but more than 500,000 Americans misinterpret them every ...

Though it can be tricky at restaurants, nutrition facts labels are helpful for tracking sodium in packaged foods and homemade meals. Some foods you eat daily have more sodium than you'd expect.

A mindful approach in this regard would involve checking out the nutritional label information on various food products before deciding to buy them. Recently, the United States Food and Drug ...