At a time when more than half of the American diet comes from processed, packaged foods, the Food and Drug Administration has new rules aimed at helping people make healthy choices in the grocery ...

Walk through any grocery store and you'll see them everywhere. Green packaging. Earthy fonts. Words like "natural" and "all natural" stamped proudly across everything from potato chips to orange juice ...

"Natural" and "organic" are common on food labels, but the terms can be confusing. "Natural" labeling is simple, but vague. "Organic" labeling is more complicated. There are, however, specific ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday issued a set of standards for food manufacturers wishing to label a product “gluten-free.” The agency set a limit of 20 parts per million for the amount ...

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, ...

The Food and Drug Administration will re-evaluate its definition of "healthy," which could eventually upend how a range of foods are marketed. An FDA spokeswoman, Lauren Kotwicki, said in an email ...

Between 2011 and 2014, more than 150 class-action lawsuits were filed because of food-labeling practices. Yet Kind is hardly the first to print misleading claims on its packages. In 2009, Kellogg was ...

CHICAGO — Just when product developers thought they had gained an understanding of consumers’ expectations of clean label — simple ingredients, nothing artificial and minimal processing — plant-based ...