An Overview of Food and Beverage Trends in 2022 As 2021 comes to a close and we gear up for the next 12 months ahead, more and more reports are surfacing with a deep dive on consumer behavior analysis, the post-pandemic effect on labor, and how tech can provide a...
Why You Should Upgrade Your Food Products for 2022 As you well know, food trends are ever-changing. In previous years, trends have been somewhat fickle and diet-related, which is not very cost-effective for implementing any type of product change. However, in the last...
Using LabelCalc: Creating a Sub recipe Depending on the complexity of your product recipe, sometimes your final product might consist of several recipes all rolled up into one. A frozen pizza, for example, tends to have multiple components: dough, marinara, and...
Why You Should Get a Nutrition Label Review By a Registered Dietitian As an industry-leading nutrition analysis provider in the food industry, we are all about making the workplace more efficient. Let's face it, the industry has been a notoriously slow adopter when it...
Nutrition Labeling: Serving Size for Bulk Orders Over the last few weeks, we've spent time talking to the new manufacturer who may or may not be in the early phases of their journey to retail. Maybe they've been perfecting their amazing barbecue sauce and need some...
Everyone’s taste-buds and dietary preferences have one thing in common: specific ingredients. Learn how you can harness the power of your product recipe ingredients to target the right consumer for your product. Feel like you need some input from an expert? Learn about how you can consult with a labeling and food industry professional to perform a product review to make sure you’re getting the most out of your ingredients!
The 2020 Flavor Trends that are Changing the Food Industry As we enter the fourth quarter it’s important to begin preparing for 2021 by reviewing the past year of 2020 flavor trends and be aware of their evolution into what will soon be the first quarter of the new...
Major Food Manufacturers Switch Gears and Sell D2C: Should You? Just this past week, Beyond Meat announced that they are opening up a new avenue for selling their products, and if you read our title you probably know exactly what direction they're going in. That's...
The FDA Has Relaxed Food Labeling Standards: Here's Why You Shouldn't We can all agree that we're living in a time where the consumer has never been more concerned for their health, after all, at the end of the day we are those consumers. And existing during a global...
LabelCalcⓇ is one of FoodCalc LLC’s two nutrition analysis products, created to help meet the needs of the food industry. Based in San Francisco, CA, we are a nationally recognized provider of online nutrition analysis that is fast, accurate, and FDA-compliant.
Welcome to 2022 - The Year of Compliance! After an extended grace period due to COVID-19, the FDA is reinforcing its regulations for 2022 and beyond. It will be of utmost importance this year to make sure your product nutrition labels are up to date for compliance....
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...
For the last 15 years, we have helped budding food entrepreneurs, small food businesses, and established manufacturers with their nutrition labeling and FDA-compliance needs. And we've found after nearly 2 decades in business that those who need resources and...
A Beginner's Guide to Selling Your Food Products Online For the budding food manufacturer, getting your food products into retail has never been so accessible. While you may want to go the brick-and-mortar route of consulting with a major grocery retail chain, a lot...