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 food and beverages has risen, and there is no end in sight. Prior...
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 forgetting what skim milk is and instead diving...
When you've built a platform on the foundation of nutrition analysis, there are a lot of avenues that you can travel down in order to solve pain points for the food industry, and even food professionals themselves. Nutrition courses come in many shapes and sizes,...
When it comes to creating nutrition facts panels for your food products, not all pathways are created equal. You might be a brand new manufacturer (hesitant to even put that label on your work yet), navigating food labeling for the first time. Or, you might have an...
As a tech company, we know you need an API. Aside from it's ability to simplify the complex and help you operate your business more efficiently through seamless data-sharing, it's also a complete time-saver. And while many of you may be nodding your head in...
It's not likely that Jeff Besos will be feeling threatened anytime soon, but the spread of COVID-19 has made CPG brands drastically more aware of how they conduct their direct-to-consumer (D2C) sales. Although Amazon is a convenient platform to use for selling food...
Several months into the coronavirus crisis, food businesses have begun to adjust to a “new normal”. For some that means increasing production while others have adopted more efficient methods of operation. And then there are a crazy few, who saw fit to launch brand new...
During this COVID-19 epidemic, each branch of the food industry has felt the pressure of inexplicable amounts of change and every business has been ejected out of their comfort zone. Whether you’re a single-location restaurant experiencing a pivot to delivery or a...
Let’s be honest, there no official rule-book on how to survive an outbreak we’ve never experienced before. When it comes to food manufacturing and COVID-19, the only option we have is to gather the best ideas from those who have walked in our shoes only a few short...
By now, you might have heard of the clean labeling movement, a consumer trend that is sweeping the CPG industry. In a nutshell: Consumers are demanding more out of the products at their local grocery store shelves. They’re looking for simpler ingredients, shorter...
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.
Next to safety, content claims might be the most highly reviewed criteria of a food product by the FDA. During a time where functional foods have risen to exponential heights in consumer popularity, it is important to understand what types of claims there are...
Although we are a nutrition analysis and label creation platform that strives to make the creation of nutritional labels as simple as possible -- we do understand that some of you may be new to labeling. If this is true about you, then we're sure you agree that this...
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) return back to normal. In recent months, grocery...
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 epidemic that has swept the globe,...