If you feel like food labels are written in a foreign language, you’re not alone. Manufacturers use more than 65 names for sugar on food labels, and many of them are designed to sound healthier than ...

The FDA wants to put clearer nutrition labels on the front of food packages - but new research suggests a different design might work better.

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Consumers may struggle to understand food nutrition panels that include "added sugars," a study suggests, illustrating the challenge ahead as U.S. health officials consider putting this detail on food ...

The new, redesigned "Nutrition Facts" label is coming. The Food and Drug Administration has announced that the new label will be required on most packaged food by July 2018. The big change: The label ...

A decade ago, a nearly 90 min long YouTube video by a California endocrinologist changed the way millions of people view the role of sugar in their diets. Its unlikely star, Robert Lustig, used his ...

Renata Micha, registered dietitian, Ph.D., associate research professor at Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy in Boston, led a study to see if the new Food and Drug ...

After years of tortured debate and delays, the US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday finally decided how producers of two classic foods of New England — maple syrup and cranberries — should ...

Soda is sweet — but billions of dollars in savings is even sweeter. When the Food and Drug Administration announced in 2016 that manufacturers would soon be required to disclose added-sugar amount on ...

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