NEW YORK (Reuters) - In Washington, a pivotal battle over sugar is heating up. One small corner of the wider culture war over public health and sweeteners, this fight isn't about how much sugar should ...

Many consumers feel pride in avoiding the glazed pastries in the supermarket and instead opting for “all natural” granola ...

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 ...

For the first time in over two decades, the Nutrition Facts label has been updated. Introduced more than 20 years ago in 1994 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Nutrition Facts label was ...

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.

Food and drink products like potato chips, cereals and sodas may soon get front-of-package labels that warn of high levels of added sugars, salt or saturated fats. The Food and Drug Administration has ...

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 ...

Food packaging is built to reassure shoppers. Certain words sound meaningful but often describe far less than people assume.

SEATTLE — Mandatory front-of-pack (FOP) labeling rules for added sugars, expected from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in October (originally expected in June), are just the beginning of ...