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47 stories for“food labels”
A draft the agency opened for comment this week sets sugar, salt and fat criteria plus a flag for flavours, colours and sweeteners, giving governments one yardstick for regulating packaged food.
Nov 6, 2026
A product can be free of sugar, full of refined flour, sweetened with something that still raises glucose, and carry more fat and calories than the version it replaced. Regulators in Europe eventually stopped allowing a diabetic food category altogether.
Aug 19, 2026
Front-of-pack claims like 'low fat' or 'natural' are not lies, but they are not the whole story. Here is what to check instead.
Feb 14, 2024
Wholemeal, wholegrain, multigrain, brown, granary and wheat all sound like the same promise. Only one of them reliably means the whole grain is in there, and the difference shows up in your glucose two hours later.
Aug 9, 2026
The grades are chemical and sensory standards, not marketing tiers. Extra virgin has passed a lab test and a tasting panel. Refined oil has been stripped and deodorised. 'Light' refers to flavour, not calories.
Jul 25, 2023
One rigorous NIH trial proved ultra-processed diets cause overeating. A UK parliamentary report says the classification behind it is too blunt.
Jun 2, 2026
Ordinary spirulina is full of a B12 lookalike the body cannot use, which is why it has never been the answer for anyone avoiding animal food. Adjusting the light it grows under produced 1.64 micrograms of the active form per 100 grams.
Aug 31, 2026
Protein went from fitness afterthought to grocery store obsession. Now it's in your cereal, ice cream, and pasta. Why did one nutrient consume America.
Jun 18, 2024
At least two portions of fish a week, one of them oily, is the standing advice in the UK. Tinned tuna does not count, tinned sardines do, and some groups are told to limit how much they eat.
Sep 14, 2026
A Virginia Tech trial of 57 adults found less carbohydrate burning, more insulin and different reward-region activity after an ultra-processed meal. It was a single meal in young, healthy people.
Oct 9, 2026
The 2023 guideline told people not to use non-sugar sweeteners for weight control. It explicitly does not apply to people who already have diabetes, which is precisely the group that read the headline and threw them out.
Aug 11, 2026
A survey published in Food Control screened UK burgers, vegan sausages and oat, almond and soy drinks for 19 mycotoxins. All 212 carried at least one. Every measured level sat below the European guideline, which is the part people keep skipping.
Aug 30, 2026
WHO guidance targets free sugars, not all sugar. The distinction changes how a bowl of cereal or a smoothie should be judged.
Sep 10, 2024
WHO sets a 5 gram salt ceiling; the Gulf's average intake runs far above it, driven largely by bread and processed food.
Jan 16, 2025
Three different conditions get flattened into one phrase. One is autoimmune, one is an allergy and one is a diagnosis of exclusion, and the testing order matters more than most people realise.
Aug 8, 2026
