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Reference Amount vs Serving Size: What’s the Difference? Although they are related, there is a distinct difference between serving sizes and reference amounts. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defines serving size as “the amount of food customarily consumed...
Packaging Your Food Product: Tips For Food Manufacturers Being a food manufacturer is no easy feat, especially when you produce your first product. Basically, it’s just one thing after another. When you’ve finally perfected your food product, for instance, it’s time...
FDA Food Labeling Enforcement: Why Compliance is Important for Food Manufacturers Often, food manufacturers tell me that the FDA nutrition labeling rules seem very particular (some even say nitpicky). From label layouts to rounding rules and everything in between,...
How to Use the “No Sugar Added” Nutrient Content Claim: A Food Manufacturer’s Guide Food manufacturers often ask me for advice about including nutrient content claims, like low-fat or low-calorie, on their products. Recently though, I have been getting a lot of...
A Guide to Single Ingredient Food Labeling Using Online Nutrition Analysis I recently worked with a client who had an incredible passion for pumpkin seeds. She came to me a few months before launching her dream product—pure, raw, organic Austrian pumpkin seeds—to get...
How to Avoid Incorrect Nutrition Labels: Common Mistakes to Be Aware of Creating a nutrition facts panel for the first time can be overwhelming. While the process itself doesn’t need to be difficult, many first-time food manufacturers get hung up on their fear of...
A Guide to Using FDA Rounding Rules for Your Food Label As a food manufacturer, you know your food labels must comply with FDA guidelines for nutrition information. And while these guidelines are important in providing transparency about your products so consumers can...
Nutrition Facts Label Size Requirements: What Food Manufacturers Need to Know It’s no secret to those in the food manufacturing industry that the FDA is pretty particular—especially when it comes to nutrition facts labels. Of course, they have the public’s best...
Do I Need Nutrition Facts on My Product? A New Food Manufacturer’s Guide to Labeling Kathryn was crazy about cheesecake. For as long as she could remember, she’d been baking them with her mother for every birthday and holiday. As she got older, she began tweaking her...
How to Get Your Food Product in Stores Quickly: Making a Nutrition Facts Label You’re almost there. After years spent selling your product at the farmer’s market and tweaking it to perfection, now it’s time to reach out to store buyers and see if you can get your...
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