A closer look at food labels that sound wholesome yet hide marketing tactics most shoppers overlook in the aisle.

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You scan the nutrition label, count the calories, check the protein content, and make what seems like an informed choice. But that colorful package is hiding crucial information that determines ...

Walking through grocery store aisles offers a kaleidoscope of marketing claims promising healthier choices. Yet many shoppers actively avoid reading nutrition labels, creating a disconnect between ...

Since the 1990s, foods sold in the U.S. have come with a familiar black-and-white table listing out their nutritional facts in precise detail down to the milligrams of protein and carbohydrates. Some ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Greg Licholai writes and teaches about innovation in healthcare. Today software does not come with information labels that clearly ...

We often find people glancing at a nutrition label in grocery stores but only a small percentage of them can interpret the nutrition label correctly. With the variety of packaged food available ...

Nutritional labels contain more information than manufacturing and expiry dates. I’ve simplified and explained everything you need to know so you can make healthy food choices. A study in Lagos found ...

In a recent study published in Nutrients, researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health in Austin explored how nutrition labels affect ...

WASHINGTON -- The United States Food and Drug Administration will test out labels on the front of food packages in the hope of giving shoppers better access to nutrition information, the agency said.