To use the nutrition facts label to your advantage, you need to understand what’s on there and why. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

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 Facts label didn’t exist 50 years ago.

Decode nutrition labels for smarter meal prep, recovery, and snacking. Learn to read ingredients, spot key nutrients, and avoid hidden sugars and unhealthy fats.

The legal definition of a fat-free food is that it contains less than 0.5 grams of fat in a standard serving. This makes sense when you remember that nutritional data on food labels is rounded off ...

Meanwhile, the Consumer Brands Association continues to push for the existing industry-led Facts up Front label.

For three decades, the Nutrition Fact Panel on the food label has provided a nutritional snapshot of the food inside a package. By law, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration dictates that the label… ...

A nutrition label will “give you insight into the overall composition of the food,” including preservatives and flavor enhancers that are fine to eat, but not very nutritious, Palinski-Wade says.

The Food and Drug Administration announced a new proposal Tuesday that would require food and drink manufacturers to place nutrition labels on the front of their products instead of the back.

Almost all packaged food sold in the U.S. for the past three decades has sported a Nutrition Facts label, with major consequences for the food system By Xaq Frohlich & The Conversation US ...