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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) supports efforts to reduce the sodium content of manufactured and restaurant foods.  Most American adults should consume no more than 1,500 mg. of sodium – the equivalent of about two-thirds of a t...

Kettle Foods, maker of Kettle Brand® Baked Potato Chips, is kicking off the New Year by inviting fans to share their “Real Resolutions” for healthy eating and living.   Kettle Brand® Baked Potato Chips, the only baked chip made from whole slices of re...

Por primera vez en Estados Unidos la obesidad superó al consumo de tabaco como la principal amenaza para la salud. A pesar de que la mayoría de las personas con sobrepreso toman como resolución de Año Nuevo perder algunas libras, una encuesta revela qu...

The morbidity-mortality curves for smoking and obesity in the US have crossed as the latter appears to have become the greater health threat, at least as measured by quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) lost, suggests an analysis published online Januar...

Two years ago, Orville Redenbacher soared from the graveyard and announced in weeks of TV ads that his popcorn was now free of diacetyl. That's the chemical in artificial butter flavoring that has been blamed for sickening hundreds of workers, killing ...

Hoy sí, a partir del 1 de enero los restaurantes y comederos del estado no podrán utilizar las grasas saturadas o trans, un componente culinario asociado a las enfermedades cardiovasculares, en la preparación de alimentos. La ley que así lo dispone f...

California will bar restaurants from cooking with trans fat beginning New Year's Day, becoming the first state to crack down on the substance tied to clogged arteries, strokes and coronary heart disease. The ban is hailed by supporters as a way to pr...

The restaurant industry has lobbied hard against mandatory menu labeling in restaurants, highlighting the importance of a new study from the Rudd Center measuring the impact of menu-labeling regulations. The researchers found that calorie labels result...

PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP), one of the world's largest food and beverage companies, today announced it will open a long-term research laboratory in New Haven with a focus on the development of healthier food and beverage products. The company also will fund a...

The Frozen Potato Institute [AFFI] whose members supply fast food chains with the raw material for french fries, succeeded in persuading FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition to extend its comment period on scientific data and information ...

La sustancia química acrilamida, que es un agente potencialmente cancerígeno, no eleva el riesgo de desarrollar cáncer de boca, garganta, cuerdas vocales o tiroides, con una sola excepción. Más allá de una posible asociación con el cáncer de boca en m...

A New Jersey Superior Court judge dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing Denny's Corp. of perpetrating fraud by not disclosing the amount of sodium in its food. The lawsuit, the first sodium-related case against a restaurant company, was filed this summe...

Potatoes have long been an important and economical source of energy, nutrition and satiety in the American diet. As one of the top three vegetable carbohydrates consumed by humans on the planet, chances are potatoes will continue to fill that role in ...

Today, Alexia Foods, Inc, Kennewick, WA, in cooperation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is voluntarily recalling packages of its Alexia – Olive Oil, Sun-Dried Tomatoes &Pesto Oven Reds (frozen seasoned potato wedges) for an undecla...

Unilever has long been committed to clear, transparent nutritional information for consumers, and therefore welcomes the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announced plans to develop standardized criteria on which future front-of-package nutriti...

An industry-funded food labeling program was halted on Friday just days after U.S. officials warned they were investigating if nutrition claims on the front of packages were misleading.The Smart Choices Program said it would "voluntarily postpone ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Oct. 20 that it would seek to clear up the confusion caused by a surge of nutritional claims that manufacturers have begun to make on packaged food labels. Point of purchase labeling including Front of P...

ConAgra Foods announced today a new “100 calories less pledge”, an education and awareness building effort as part of its outreach at the American Dietetic Association (ADA) Food and Nutrition Conference in Denver.  The pledge is a voluntary commitment...