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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

WOODMERE, Ohio -- The nation's food companies are stirring up new recipes for everything from Oreos to SpaghettiOs to get rid of trans fat, the artery-clogging ingredient that must be listed on food ...

Trans fats labels may be misleading due to a law that allows foods containing less than 0.5 grams of trans fat to claim they have none at all.

Some Tulsa restaurants have already reduced the trans fat in their foods, but some confusion remains about the controversial fat. Trans fat is created by repeatedly heating vegetable-based cooking ...

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 ...