Soon, food labels will have to say how much artery-clogging trans fat is inside. Trans fat helps make foods like doughnuts and crackers taste good. Its most common source is partially hydrogenated ...

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 ...

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 ...

Girl Scout cookies, whose sales season finished up last week in the Chicago area, came with an extra pledge this year. For the first time ever, the scouts could promise that the majority of the ...

Ray Suarez discusses the impact of a new FDA ruling, requiring increased disclosure of trans fats on food labels, with Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public ...

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Girl Scout cookies, which went on sale in Tucson late last month, come with an extra pledge this year. For the first time ever, the Scouts can promise that the majority of the cookies on the order ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm very confused about trans fats. I recently read that hydrogenated, partially hydrogenated and fractionated oils are considered trans fats. I then bought some tub margarine, which advertised that ...

The late 19th century was filled with well-intentioned food innovations — we'll just leave it at that. While this was a time when food preservation processes like canning and pasteurizing were ...