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Creating Functional Food Products for Retail Sale

Creating Functional Food Products for Retail Sale

How to Create a Successful Food Product in 2022 If you're considering making a career out of creating and selling food products to consumers in any capacity, how do you know where to start?  You might be surprised to find out that anywhere from 70-90% of food retail...

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Sustainable Packaging for Your Food Products

Sustainable Packaging for Your Food Products

Have You Switched to Sustainable Packaging for Your Food Products Yet? Did you know that according to 68% of consumers believe that a brand that makes a public promise to observe sustainable practices are more trustworthy? We're coming in hot with the facts this week,...

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Plant-Based Food Manufacturing

Plant-Based Food Manufacturing

Calling All Manufacturers: It's Time Expand to Plant-Based Food Manufacturing As the COVID-19 pandemic continues you evolve the landscape of the food industry as we know it, consumers are falling into new categories of dietary preferences (and offsetting expected...

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Clean Ingredients For Your Food Product

Clean Ingredients For Your Food Product

Tips for Cleaning Up Your Ingredient List for Your Food Product It's no secret that despite rigorous regulations imposed by the FDA, the United States has some of the most lenient food laws in the world. This issue is most concerning when it comes to ingredients that...

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Food Technology

Food Technology

Efficient Manufacturing Through Food Technology Food manufacturing, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, is not for the faint of heart. Consumer health is leading their increasing demands for food that they feel good about eating while their environmental concerns...

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Create Nutrition Label

Create Nutrition Label

Ditch the Food Lab: Discover The New Techie Way to Create a Nutrition Label For decades, manufacturers have relied on food labs in order to provide them with the necessary nutritional analysis required by the FDA in order to create a nutrition label with accompanying...

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Food Retail Safety

Food Retail Safety

Food Retail Safety Precautions During COVID-19 As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to changes the way that we do food retail, an emerging concern among consumers is their continued personal safety as states begin to relax regulations and life begins to (somewhat)...

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Expanding to Grocery

Expanding to Grocery

Expanding to Grocery: Should You Do It? Normally we save these posts for our sister site, MenuCalc, which serves the restaurant and foodservice industry. However, as of late the lines have begun to get a little, shall we say, blurred? In the wake of the coronavirus...

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Functional Food and Beverages

Functional Food and Beverages

Coronavirus Increases Demand for Functional Food and Beverages While the worldwide pandemic remains in full swing and the the CPG industry continues to ebb and flow around the demands of the consumer, one thing has become abundantly clear: the demand for functional...

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Creating Keto Food Products

Creating Keto Food Products

Creating Keto Food Products with LabelCalc Keto. The Ketogenic Diet. Ketones. Ketosis. We can all agree that Keto might just be the biggest fad to hit the food & beverage industry in the last few years, if not ever. This high fat, low-carb lifestyle has us...

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Sesame: The New FDA-Required Allergen Starting Jan 1, 2023

Sesame: The New FDA-Required Allergen Starting Jan 1, 2023

Effective January 1st, 2023, the FDA will declare sesame as the ninth major food allergen. This means food manufacturers that create products with Sesame in them, must now declare Sesame on their Contains Statement.   The Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection...

What Needs to Be on an FDA Nutrition Label?

What Needs to Be on an FDA Nutrition Label?

Creating a new food product can be equally as exciting as it is overwhelming. Meeting FDA standards requires significant research, time, and trial and error. So how can inventors create new and innovative food products with ease? Understanding what exactly needs to be...

The FDA Made These Changes to The Nutrition Fact Labels in 2022

The FDA Made These Changes to The Nutrition Fact Labels in 2022

As of 2022, the FDA made significant changes to the nutrition facts label that all brands must adhere to. If companies struggle to meet new FDA regulations, they run the risk of being shut down due to a lack of compliance.  Regulations are constantly-evolving due to...

How to Tackle FDA Regulations as a New Food Business

How to Tackle FDA Regulations as a New Food Business

As a new business, it can feel daunting to tackle FDA Regulations. Creating a new product alone is a large feat. The journey of getting your product from creation to the shelves is an even larger one. What if it didn’t have to be so challenging? There’s an easier,...