The Cheesecake Factory is known for its massive menu, and these are the unhealthiest items of all. If you're counting ...

We gathered our favorite low-calorie salads that are packed with veggies and lean protein, and each contains 350 calories or ...

ABSTRACT: We examined the influence of menu calorie labels on fast food choices in the wake of New York City's labeling mandate. Receipts and survey responses were collected from 1,156 adults at fa ...

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) in Northern Ireland and College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE), have launched guidance to help businesses produce pancakes lower in sugar and salt.

health and nutrition Calories listed on a food menu could make you eat more Instead of helping people make healthier choices, it made them second-guess themselves, shows a study.

In other words, calorie labeling didn’t help participants judge foods more accurately. It made them second-guess themselves. Across nine experiments with more than 2,000 participants, my ...

We observed this effect for calories, but not for other nutrition metrics such as fat or carbohydrates, which consumers tend to view as less familiar. This pattern repeated across our experiments.

Knowing how many calories a food contains has become a familiar part of eating. But it may muddy rather than clarify a person’s understanding of how healthy that food is.

That said, empty calories can add up over time — especially since they’re in the types of foods people are more likely to consume mindlessly while watching TV or scrolling on their phones.

Providing calorie information labels on menus and food products has a small but important effect at a population level on the choices that people make, a large Cochrane review has concluded.1 UK ...

Protein should make up 10% to 30%, and fat 20% to 35%. The term “calorie density” describes the number of calories in a food relative to its weight, usually per 3.5 ounces (oz) or 100 g.