The FDA has announced a proposal to require a new nutrition label on the front of packages for most packaged foods. The label design, shown below, would give consumers readily visible information about a food’s saturated fat, sodium, and added sugars content—three nutrients the FDA states are directly linked with chronic diseases when consumed in excess. The proposed “Nutrition Info box” rates packaged food as being “Low,” “Med,” or “High” in saturated fat, sodium, and added sugars. It was designed after the FDA conducted an experimental study in 2023 of nearly 10,000 U.S. adults to further explore consumer responses to three different types of front-of-pack labels. The new Nutrition Info box is intended to complement the FDA’s existing Nutrition Facts label.

If finalized, the proposed rule would require food manufacturers to add the Nutrition Info box to most packaged food products three years after the final rule’s effective date for businesses with $10 million or more in annual food sales and four years after the final rule’s effective date for businesses with less than $10 million in annual food sales. Comments on the proposed rule can be submitted electronically to http://www.regulations.gov by May 16, 2025.