“The best foods don’t have a nutrition label,” says Christopher Gardner, a nutrition scientist and professor of medicine at ...

California recently passed a law that requires the standardization of food date labels — "best if used by" indicating when food is at its peak freshness and "use by" for food safety concerns.

Grocery expiration labels can be intimidating, especially for dairy and meats. Manufacturers give their best guess as to when food will reach its peak quality with phrases like “best by ...

Learn about the important information that labels can tell us about food such as its ingredients, the use-by or best-before date and how it should be stored and cooked in this BBC Bitesize activity.

New research uncovers how hyper-palatable foods saturate the US food supply and highlights urgent public health challenges ...

Date labels. Expiration dates. Best-by dates. Whatever you call them, at some point, you’ve probably squinted at those tiny dot-matrix-printed numbers and wondered: “Does this mean my cheese ...

A potential FDA proposal would label Goldfish “medium” in saturated fat and sodium. (The placement and size of any U.S. label has yet to be determined.) The same product would bear stop-sign ...

Still, next year, a new California law simplifying consumer-facing date labels to the “best if used by”/“use-by” binary goes into effect, and the Food and Drug Administration and ...

only to discover that the milk has gone past its 'best before' date. But the days of having to opt for a milkless cuppa could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a new food label.