The Good Food Collective, a new coalition of 25-plus food brands, organizations, and nutrition experts, has teamed up to design a smarter nutrition label. For more than a century, the U.S. government ...

A Brief History of the Nutrition Facts Label Today, the idea that food packages can show us at a glance how many calories and grams of sugar a product has seems like a given, but the Nutrition ...

The US Food and Drug Administration is proposing that nutrition information be placed on the front of packaged foods to provide at-a-glance information about saturated fat, sodium and added sugar.

"Nutrition labeling is required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for most packaged foods," says Collins, but she explains that the labels are not required on raw fruits and vegetables.

The Nutrition Facts label, that black and white information box found on nearly every packaged food product in the U.S. since 1994, has recently become an icon for consumer transparency.

Navigating the grocery aisle is overwhelming, especially when trying to make sense of food labels. Nutrition claims like “sugar-free” or “reduced fat” are hard enough to parse, even when ...

Americans should read nutrition labels before purchasing food from the grocery store. Shutterstock The Post took its own look at the nutritional labels of three US food staples — baked beans ...

Whether those values are minimums, maximums or median targets is entirely up to the consumer. While they offer critical transparency about food contents, nutrition facts should be taken with a grain ...