Most of the dates on your food aren't required by any law and were never checked by anyone. The real story behind sell-by dates.

"An apple a day" began as a 1904 marketing rescue plan for an industry that had just lost its real product: booze. What the science actually says now.

"Melts in your mouth, not in your hand" traces to a WWII battlefield discovery. Plus the cocoa crisis and the legal loophole behind "chocolatey."

How fat became public enemy number one, and how that belief moved from early nutrition research into government policy and grocery shelves.

How organic food became a moral signal instead of a farming method, and turned into a multibillion-dollar industry built on purity and fear.

"Breakfast is the most important meal" didn't come from science. It came from a cereal mogul's sanitarium and a PR man who sold bacon and eggs to America.