Rising consumer demand for healthier products combined with intensifying scrutiny of better-for-you claims in 2025 by an ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration hears you and responds. The agency just updated the nutritional requirements a food ...

Walking through a grocery store can feel straightforward, but much of what appears simple is carefully engineered. Packaging, ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Have you ever wanted to buy something, only to find yourself overwhelmed by eight different options for ...

The US food oversight agency is making good on a pledge to redefine what can be deemed as “healthy” products with a new ruling. In the works since at least 2022 as part of the White House’s national ...

Health halo foods are foods that seem healthy because they're labeled with words like "organic," "non-GMO," "gluten-free," and other similar claims. These words on a label or a restaurant menu can ...

Consumers want functional food. If nothing else is certain, that is. In many areas, from coffee to bread to plant-based protein to non-alcoholic drinks, consumers want food that can provide functional ...

Walk down any grocery store aisle and you will see it. Words like healthy, natural, low-fat, fit, organic. It all sounds ...

New regulation mandates symbols on foods high in sodium, sugar or saturated fat, in effort to combat chronic disease.

Researchers analyzing nearly 600 grocery items found that flashy front-label claims—like “heart healthy” or “keto-friendly,” often fail to match real nutrition, urging doctors and shoppers to focus on ...

Health has always been a priority for consumers. Yet over the past year, we’ve seen health become an obsession. The health trend has arrived in full force to many areas of food and beverage, ...

The agency issued designs for front-of-package lists that food companies would be required to include. By Andrew Jacobs The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday proposed requiring new nutrition ...