Food labeling

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 [...]

Lately, there has been a shift in how many of us are choosing to live our lives, especially when it comes to the food we consume and the way we shop. While more and more people are interested in [...]

For busy, well-established food manufacturers, food labeling and marketing is a no-brainer. They’ve learned about the industry, know all about their target consumers, and probably have an entire [...]

Whenever I talk to first-time food manufacturers who are looking to get nutrition facts labels for their products, one of the first things I ask them is if they really understand all the elements [...]

Dealing with food additives can be tricky, to say the least. When food manufacturers start using chemical additives and coloring agents, formulating a food product becomes a whole lot more [...]

Over the past few years, partially hydrogenated oils have come under a lot of scrutiny. While they’ve been used in food products since the 1950s, mostly to preserve the shelf-life of manufactured [...]

I remember a client telling me that when she was a kid, she got to enjoy variety pack of mini cereal boxes—but just on her birthday. Normally, her mother wouldn’t allow her to have sweet [...]

Many of the food products on any given grocery store shelf have some sort of claim on the packaging. Consumers use these claims to inform what they buy, and as manufacturers, we use them to help [...]

If you look on any grocery store shelf across the nation, you’ll notice that there are more gluten-free products than ever before. The demand for products free of wheat and gluten is certainly on [...]

Often, food manufacturers tell me that the FDA nutrition labeling rules seem very particular (some even say nitpicky). From label layouts to rounding rules and everything in between, I’ll admit [...]