At many chain eateries, which are often required to post their nutrition facts online, pasta dishes can pack in 140-plus grams of carbohydrate. That's like eating 10 slices of white bread.

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 ...

For the first time in 20 years, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated the nutrition facts label for all packaged food products. In addition to sporting a streamlined design, the label ...

A 2-ounce serving of chickpea pasta contains between 190 and 230 calories; 2 to 3.5 grams of fat (up to 4 percent of the daily value, or DV); 0 to 45 milligramsof sodium (up to 2 percent of the DV ...

The iconic Nutrition Facts label is now a model for tech transparency. But its history exposes the power—and limitations—of such labeling.

Dietitians weigh in To use the nutrition facts label to your advantage, you need to understand what’s on there and why. Dec. 13, 2022, 11:09 AM PST / Source: TODAY Natalie Rizzo, RD ...

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. “The ...

Take, for example, a can of Campbell’s chicken noodle soup. According to its nutrition facts label, a serving contains 39% of the recommended daily sodium. But a single can has 2.5 servings.

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.

FDA Nutrition Facts Label The nutrition facts label on the side of a cereal box is photographed in Washington on Jan. 23. Nutrition labels on the back of food packages may soon become easier to read.

Nancy Brown, CEO of the American Heart Association, said the FDA’s proposal for a front-facing nutrition label is “an important step to make nutrition information clearer and more accessible.” ...