As part of National Food Safety Month, Hans Weding, Extension registered dietitian and certified ServSafe instructor who has led numerous food safety training courses for professionals in the food and ...

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 ...

How to Effectively Read, Food Labels. These tips offer helpful strategies for getting more mindful about what you eat on the daily. 1, Understand why the food labels are there. Nutrition labels became ...

You shouldn’t need a degree in chemistry to buy granola, but food companies are betting you won’t read past the buzzwords on the front of the packaging. Marketing words like natural, light and immune ...

For more than a century, the U.S. government has tried to bring more transparency to food labels. It started in 1906, when the Pure Food and Drug Act cracked down on mislabeled ingredients and false ...

The FDA has updated the definition of "healthy" on food labels to better reflect current nutritional science. Foods must now meet criteria for beneficial nutrients and limits on added sugars, ...