The % DV on labels shows how much one serving contributes to your daily needs for calories or nutrients. According to UNICEF, ...

Get Healthy. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires nutrition labels on most packaged food items, and gaining a basic ...

Stock image of a person reading the nutrition label ... The proposed FOP (front-of-package) nutrition label simplifies nutrient information by rating saturated fat, sodium, and added sugars ...

For the last 14 years I’ve been a Registered Dietitian, and have been taught that to be an informed consumer you must learn how to read a nutrition facts label and decipher the label’s meaning. Every ...

here’s a quick guide to navigating the supermarket and reading Japanese food nutrition labels and ingredients. Most Japanese supermarkets are not difficult to navigate as they are more or less the ...

Readers had a lot to say about my latest column on the Food and Drug Administration’s proposed front-of-package labels. Most ...

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 ...

It could soon be harder to ignore the nutritional red flags on your favorite junk food. This week, the Food and Drug Administration unveiled a long-awaited proposal that would require food and ...

Some food labels designed to nudge Americans toward healthier food ... effective and impactful public health interventions." ...

And low is 5% and below. Agency officials have used these benchmarks for "high" and "low" for decades, dating back to the formulation of the nutrition facts label back in the 1990s. At the time ...