I’ve been a dietitian for decades, but I don’t stand in the grocery aisle carefully reading every line of every Nutrition ...

Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Key Takeaways Check the Nutrition Facts label for sodium, added sugars, and ...

Table of Contents Why choosing based only on healthy-sounding words is exhausting Reading nutrition labels and research ...

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

Imagine picking up two crackers in an imported-food aisle. One declares “Sodium 120mg” and the other a salt equivalent of 0.4 grams. The numbers look very different, but they do not yet tell us which ...

SELL by, best by, and expiration dates can confuse shoppers at the grocery store and generate unnecessary food waste. Food ...

Dariush Mozaffarian’s Food Is Medicine challenges nutrition’s focus on what to cut, urging readers to build meals around ...

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

You might expect your body to treat them pretty much the same way. But food is more than its nutrition label. In a randomized, controlled study, researchers compared meals with nearly identical ...

Elizabeth Dunford, a nutrition epidemiologist, studies additives in ultra-processed foods and their impact on health.