Food manufacturers who have been in the business for a while will likely have heard all about the changes the FDA intends to make to the nutrition facts panel in the next few years. But for food manufacturers just starting out in the industry, this may be news....
Food manufacturers who have created labels for their food products before will likely tell you they learned a lot of information they didn’t really need to know in the end. Hours spent perusing the FDA’s website and reading up on every little detail about food...
Last week, I was working with a small-business owner who was getting ready to create the nutrition facts panel for her product, and she asked a really good question. Essentially, she wanted to know what your nutrition facts panel must list, in terms of nutrients. She...
Nutrition labeling is a whole new world for folks just starting out in the food manufacturing industry. There certainly is a lot to figure out when it comes to FDA labeling guidelines, from formatting the nutrition facts panel to creating the ingredient list. Many...
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,...
It’s easy to get overwhelmed with nutrition facts label specifications. After all, the FDA’s rules are complex, to say the least. Food manufacturers often tell me that when they try to read through all the FDA’s guidelines online, their eyes glaze over and the...
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...
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In the last portion of our series, we're covering how to recognize the opportunities to make qualified health claims about your products. During this phase of the food industry where functional medicine is colliding with food manufacturing at a rapid rate,...
How do I determine my product's serving size? If you have found yourself wondering this aloud to yourself, you are in good company. This is one of the most commonly asked questions that we receive from our food manufacturing clients, and for good reason. Determining...
As we move into part three of our "claims series", you may want to grab a pen and a pad of paper as we dive into nutrient content claims on a food label as this particular portion of claim citation comes with several legal stipulations around what can and can not be...
As promised, we continue our series on claims this week on what we believe to be one of the most prevalent, and trending, parts of food product labeling today: structural and functional claims. Given the current climate of the food industry in the wake of the COVID-19...