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...
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.
Freeze dried foods are resurfacing in our industry in a way that we have never seen before. And why not? They're light, have a great shelf life and retail all the nutrients of their fresh counterparts packed in a tiny bite! And the reason we bring this up is that...
So you're a fairly new manufacturer and you've reached the point where you need to create a nutrition label for your product. First off, well done! You've secured and perfected a delicious recipe and now you're only a few steps away from going to retail. Before we get...
When it comes to DIY labeling, there are several platforms out there at multiple price points (hey, we're one of them) that can help you create, download and print an FDA-approved nutrition facts panel in as little as an hour or so. And while utilizing technology to...
Are you a new food manufacturer or a seasoned manufacturer looking for an updated solution for your product labeling? Today we're doing a deep dive into all of the basics of DIY Nutrition panels. How does it all work? How are nutrition values for food products...