The FDA provides guidance explaining food ingredient and packaging terms that help businesses better understand labels, additives, packaging materials and food safety requirements.

From non-GMO to gluten-free, here's what the most common food labels mean and who regulates each one. Korin Miller has spent nearly two decades covering food, health, and nutrition for digital, print, ...

A USDA report reveals that “natural” claims on packaging mean a whole lot less than most people think. Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her ...

A potential FDA proposal would label Goldfish “medium” in saturated fat and sodium. (The placement and size of any U.S. label has yet to be determined.) The same product would bear stop-sign-shaped ...

You want your patients to eat healthier. But American food labels don’t make that easy. A few diet and nutrition specialists offer tips for teaching your patients about food labels — including updated ...

Nicolette is a lifestyle writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Enthusiastic and ambitious, she's excited to tackle any story — from beauty trends to hard-hitting breaking news, Nicolette brings integrity + ...

If you’ve ever found yourself mid supermarket shop staring down at the food labels, thinking, ‘Do I really know what’s in this stuff?’ you’re not alone. And with health experts now ramping up calls to ...

Ms. Morgan is a food systems consultant. Mr. Bittman is a former Opinion columnist and a special adviser on food at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. See more of our coverage in ...

Families have been overpaying for groceries by prematurely throwing items away.

Roughly nine years ago, while serving as Vice President for Food Safety at the world’s largest food retailer, I surveyed how many different date labels were used by food producers to convey that food ...

The FDA has announced the set of rules it proposes to enforce for manufacturers to claim that a food product is “healthy.” The proposed rules are a lot better than the labeling anarchy that currently ...