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FDA updates the definition of ‘healthy’ foods
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The change banishes foods such as sugary cereals, highly sweetened yogurts, white bread and some granola bars from bearing a “healthy” label.
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The Food and Drug Administration is changing the way food companies can claim their products are "healthy." Fortified white bread is out, and fatty fish like...
At a time when more than half the American diet comes from processed, packaged foods, the FDA has new rules aimed at helping people make healthier choices in the grocery store.
Packaged foods in the U.S. will have to follow new rules in order to call themselves “healthy,” according to changes finalized Thursday by the Food and Drug Administration. It’s an update of the agency’s definition originally devised 30 years ago.
By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration has finalized new standards that foods must meet before they can be labeled as “healthy.” Requirements now include limits on saturated fat, sodium and added sugars.
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