Dive into the difference between natural and artificial flavors and what it means for your food purchases.

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Words like “natural” and “gluten-free” sound healthy, but they rarely tell the whole story.

What natural and artificial flavors really mean, and what terms are used on grocery store food labels.

Food labels can be confusing, and telling the difference between similar-sounding claims on food packages is sometimes downright baffling. Does “multigrain” mean “whole grain”? Which will have less ...

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 ...

When food manufacturers decide what to put on labels, they have one goal: to get you to buy the food. And the history of Americans' diets can be read in the history of food labels. Whatever the ...

A study of nearly 150,000 products found that more than 50 percent included health claims on their packages, but two-thirds ...

During the 1990s, America struggled with E. Coli 0157:H7 in our food. Lives were lost, many of them children, and other victims were left with life-changing disabilities. Throughout that time, a very ...

I can vaguely remember how it felt to be my 21-year-old, energetic, wide-eyed self the year I started graduate school. I was beginning a doctoral program focused on health and developmental psychology ...

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 ...