Food packaging is built to reassure shoppers. Certain words sound meaningful but often describe far less than people assume.

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

KANSAS CITY — Lynn Dornblaser, a client adviser with the Chicago-based market researcher Mintel, once defined clean label as “using things you’d find in your grandmother’s pantry.” Today, the meaning ...

Plastics manufacturers and processors now have access to smart packaging technology that promises to shift the tide of the industry's sustainability efforts. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is a ...

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Gary Sacks receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), the Australian Research Council (ARC), National Heart Foundation of Australia and VicHealth. Jasmine Chan ...

From the amount of calories and fat to protein and fibre, food labels contain a wealth of information. But do we understand them? WH investigates If you’ve ever found yourself mid supermarket shop ...

The role of packaging as a tool for consumer health literacy and transparency was the central theme of a presentation by Revant Himatsingka, popularly known as the Food Pharmer, at the PackMach Asia ...

Ms. Morgan is a food systems consultant. Mr. Bittman is a former Opinion columnist and a special adviser on food at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Whether you shop for food in ...