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

Food packaging is increasingly central to the global debate over ultra-processed foods, with consumers demanding clearer ...

Consumers are clearly taking ingredient labels more seriously, but that doesn’t mean they have the same mindset regarding ...

KANSAS CITY — Lynn Dornblaser, a client adviser with the Chicago-based market researcher Mintel, once defined clean label as “using things you’d find in your grandmother’s pantry.” Today, the meaning ...

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. The most ...

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 ...

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, ...

Nutrition labels on your favorite grocery items may soon sport a new look. The Food and Drug Administration announced a new proposal Tuesday that would require food and drink manufacturers to place ...

In June 2025, Texas and Louisiana each enacted legislation mandating new label disclosures for foods containing a number of food and color additives, raising federal preemption and First Amendment ...

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 ...

Many people think that if an ingredient is hard to pronounce, you should avoid it—but that's not always the case. Registered dietitians shed light on scientific ingredient names that can actually ...