Many retailers have expressed anxiety over how lenient or stringent they should be when Jan. 1 arrives without further ...

States are quietly rewriting the rules of the grocery checkout line for millions of low income households, tightening what ...

Food labels were quite misleading back in the 1970s. ‘Low-fat’ didn’t mean low-calorie, ‘fortified’ didn’t mean nutritious, ...

Smart SNAP is simple, targeted and cost-effective. It sends a clear message that taxpayer-funded nutrition benefits should not be used for soda and candy. That is a hard position to argue with, ...

Tennessee joins Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Colorado, Florida, West Virginia, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Utah, ...

Let's go beyond the ubiquitous and look at 9 fast food chains that have yet to fully enter the mainstream but have their ...

Ultraprocessed” has become a bad word in our food supply, but regulators are struggling with how to define the term to help consumers. Here’s why that’s so hard to do.

This autumn there was a chaotic federal government shutdown that mostly resulted from a dispute over benefits for lower ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Wednesday that South Carolina was approved for a waiver that excludes candy and “unhealthy drinks” from the list of ...

South Carolina has secured approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to exclude several categories of unhealthy items from the list of eligible fo ...

U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins approved Gov. Henry McMaster's waiver to exclude the purchase such items from the list of eligible foods under SNAP.

Six more states are banning SNAP recipients from using their tax payer funded food assistance benefit to purchase junk food.