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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I recently worked with a client who had an incredible passion for pumpkin seeds. She came to me a few months before launching her dream product—pure, raw, organic Austrian pumpkin seeds—to get a [...]

It’s no secret that Americans are becoming increasingly health-conscious. And while in the past this has meant fad dieting and low-fat foods, the emerging narrative around healthy eating is one [...]

Food manufacturers have been waiting with bated breath to find out when they must implement the new FDA nutrition facts panels. After the Obama Administration’s May 5, 2017, deadline was delayed, [...]