The most obvious purpose of the Nutrition Facts label is for consumers to learn the nutritional properties of a food. In practice, however, this label has done much more than simply inform shoppers.

Yet this familiar, everyday product label actually has a complicated legacy. The most obvious purpose of the Nutrition Facts label is for consumers to learn the nutritional properties of a food.

Scientists at Aberystwyth University in Wales have developed a new biomarker test that they hope will help ‘put science behind food labels’. FoodNavigator asks whether current nutritional labelling is ...