When you own a food company, budgeting can be a challenge. When every step of the process of getting your product to market seems to require a significant amount of money, it may feel like your funds are going to run dry. Luckily, there are many ways for food...
I get the pleasure of working with first-time food manufacturers quite often in my line of work, and for me, it’s one of the highlights of my job. I absolutely love hearing about people’s creative processes, their products, and how they got their big ideas. Of course,...
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 to get it packaged so you can get your product on store...
Over the years I’ve spent working with food manufacturers and producers, I’ve come to realize that the FDA’s rules for nutrition labeling are often confusing. A lot of people get tripped up on the rounding rules for the nutrition facts panel, others get confused about...
When I met Shelley, she had been running her own salsa business for three years. She sold her line of all-natural salsas at local farmers markets and craft fairs almost every weekend, but as a busy mother of two girls, manning a booth wasn’t the most efficient way for...
Jack was perplexed. “How the heck do I get nutrition facts for my product?”, he asked. I could hear the slight panic in his voice over the phone. He’d already perfected each of his recipes in his line of gourmet hummus, he’d chosen and ordered his packaging, and he’d...
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 mother’s recipe and experimenting with different flavors. Soon, her friends started...
Starting out in the food manufacturing business can feel overwhelming. Tweaking and testing your product until it reaches perfection is tough enough, but you’ve also got to consider marketing, packaging, and of course, labeling. When you’re a beginner working with a...
For decades, dietary fats were demonized in America. While modern nutritional science has now shown us that not all fats are bad, fat intake remains an important consideration in our overall health. As such, “low fat” products are still in demand. In fact, a recent...
Natural food is growing in popularity these days. We see labels that read “nothing artificial” and “100% natural” everywhere. Costco offers a wider selection of more wholesome food products, and even Walmart’s shelves are stocked with organic options. Ingredients that...
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Nutrition analysis. Sounds scary doesn't it? When you've determined to bring your famous barbecue sauce to retail, we're sure that the words "nutrition facts panel" probably weren't the first to come to mind. And we're sure nutrition analysis probably didn't come...
Hi there budding food manufacturers! If you've reached this article, you're likely looking for the answer to the question in our title: "Do I Need to Submit My Nutrition Label to the FDA?". Are we right? Well, I'm not going to make you skim the entire article to know...
Hi there new food manufacturer! If you have landed on this article and are trying to bring your secret sauce to retail grocery stores or attempting to sell online, congratulations! You've just entered the world of food manufacturing, and we are so happy you are here!...
Are you finally gonna do it? Are you finally going to bring your famous barbecue sauce recipe to retail stores everywhere? Let us be the first to say, congratulations! And welcome to the food industry --you are officially a budding food manufacturer. If you've reached...