STAT September 28, 2022
Ambar Castillo

The Food and Drug Administration wants to update its rules for which foods can be branded “healthy.”

The proposed label rule aims, in part, to address a question as old as medicine: What does it mean for a food to be healthy? It would update the “healthy” label guidelines from 1994 to match up-to-date nutrition research — a notoriously messy and heavily debated field. Now, food makers can call their products “healthy” if they keep sodium, sugar, and other content below certain levels, and if they contain a “meaningful” amount of food from at least one of the food groups like fruits, vegetables, or dairy.

The change is a major win for certain food makers, including the company behind KIND...

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