WASHINGTON -- Consumers are about to get a better idea of just how unhealthy some brands of potato chips, cookies, even margarines really are: Food labels will soon be required to reveal how much ...

Last we heard, the once ubiquitous trans fats had mostly disappeared from packaged cookies, muffins and french fries. That's what we reported back in November 2013, when the Food and Drug ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Stroll the aisles of any grocery store and you're sure to spot labels declaring "zero grams trans fat" on the front of snack foods, cookies and crackers. But does zero really mean ...

News AssistantNutritional labels in Virginia Tech dining halls will continue to show consumers the facts about their food selections ? just not all of them.A Food and Drug Administration nutritional ...

Trans fat in packaged foods has thinned considerably since a 2006 federal labeling requirement sent food producers scrambling to remove it from their products. But restaurants still don't have to say ...

WASHINGTON -- Anticipating the first major change in the nutrition facts label since it was inaugurated 10 years ago, the supermarket industry is getting ready to work with food manufacturers to let ...

The FDA’s proposed front-of-package nutrition labels could reshape how Americans shop — and how food manufacturers formulate, ...

It’s a fickle world in the grocery aisles. One day, a snack is a superfood, and the next, a single viral documentary or a ...

Artificial trans fat — a common ingredient in many American foods — is now considered so dangerous the government is banning it. Found in fast foods, pastries and many prepared foods on grocery store ...

The Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it is taking steps to eliminate artificial trans fats — the artery-clogging ingredient found in crackers, cookies, pizza and many other baked ...