Nutrition

The nutrition program is restrictive by design, but updates to the food package are giving parents and kids more options.

The USDA says kids' health is at stake with the proposed nutrition standards. But some manufacturers say making food with less salt and sugar will cost more, while nutrition directors are worried students won’t eat the meals.

In this book excerpt, Priya Fielding-Singh discusses how inequality manifests in how Americans eat.

The agency recommended gradual changes to the salt content in 163 processed food categories -- aimed at lessening the amount of salt we eat.

Global food loss and waste cost up to $940 billion a year.

Army dining facilities are being asked to do more with less, and to get soldiers to eat their veggies.