UK supermarket company Tesco is to label its own-brand foods with a ‘glycemic index’, which ranks carbohydrates according to their effect on blood glucose levels. The information will be useful to ...

Information on sustainability should be compulsory on food labels. So said 88% of Europeans in a Eurobarometer survey of over 27,000 people in 27 countries published in December. That’s unlikely.

The prospect of a universal traffic light system informing consumers of health risks and nutritious value has been brought a step closer in the UK, with Tesco signing up the scheme. Tesco was the last ...

Knowing how much exercise it takes to burn the calories in certain foods may be easier for consumers to understand. Prostock-studio/ Shutterstock But some critics feel that this kind of labelling may ...

The way you see nutrition labels on food packaging is about to change. By 2025, new front-of-package labels will start appearing on grocery store shelves, and by January 2026, they’ll be mandatory.