The FDA has published a new proposal for adding an additional nutrition label to the front of food packaging. It wouldn't focus on calories or fat, but rather sodium, saturated fats and added ...

Calorie counts on menus, food labels may not help consumers choose healthier foods By Deidre Popovich, Texas Tech University Calorie labeling didn’t help participants judge foods more accurately.

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.

Nutrition labels don't reveal how processing destroys satiety signals. Why foods with good stats leave you hungry and craving ...

Nutrition labels state how many calories and nutrients are in a standard amount of the product — often a suggested single serving. However, these serving sizes are frequently much smaller than ...

Calorie labels on restaurant menus are ‘triggering’ for people with eating disorders, experts say. In the first review of its ...

But nutrition labels haven't been as helpful at helping people cut calories as might have been hoped, according to a new evidence review published Jan. 17 in the Cochrane Database of Systematic ...

The Nutrition Facts section of a food product can be found by reading the food labels. ... The food label then lists the number of calories, grams of fat, grams of saturated and trans fat, ...

In other words, calorie labeling didn't help participants judge foods more accurately. It made them second-guess themselves. Across nine experiments with over 2,000 participants, my colleague and ...

Nutrition Facts labels prompt a small reduction in calories from foods people select Average calorie reduction was just under 2%, or about 11 calories in a 600-calorie meal This reduction, if ...

Calorie information alone does not help people determine whether foods are healthy, new research shows. In some cases, it may lead people to make less healthy food choices. Realizing calorie info ...

Calorie counts on menus and food labels may not help consumers choose healthier foods, new research shows By Deidre Popovich , Texas Tech University May 12, 2025 ...