Build Your Nutrition Label with ReciPal

A nutrition facts label is a tool used to promote healthy choices among consumers. As a food supplier (and often times a beverage supplier, too), you will need to create a nutrition label for your product. There are two ways to create a nutrition label.

The first way is by sending your product to a lab to have your product’s nutrition analyzed, which can include extras like the nutritional label, ingredient list, and an analysis of key nutrients.

Alternatively, you can use a service like ReciPal to complete your nutritional analysis in compliance with FDA guidelines. Continue reading to learn how to build your own nutrition facts label with ReciPal.

Creating Your Label

When you create your own nutrition label, you will be responsible for organizing all of your ingredients, their amounts, and the nutritional facts for each ingredient.

To collect your ingredients, you can either ask your distributor for details or you can use the details (nutrition, ingredients, and allergens) listed on the label.

Once you have your ingredients you will need to determine the nutritional facts per serving.

To do this, you need to know the answers to the following items:

• The final weight of your finished recipe
• How many packages* your recipe makes
• How much 1 serving is (FDA link for determining serving size)
• How many servings there are in a package

* An example of “packages” in a recipe is a batch of brownies where you can fill 10 individually packaged units.

Once you’ve entered all the necessary details, ReciPal will calculate the appropriate nutrition values, round them, them in the FDA format, and have you choose a template for your nutrition label. ReciPal offers plenty of customizations, as well as several label styles.

Get your products one step closer to being retail-ready and make your nutrition labels today with ReciPal!

See original article by ReciPal here.

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About the Author

ReciPal is simple web-based software for food companies to create their own nutrition labels, figure out product costing and pricing, and manage production and inventory. It was started by food entrepreneurs who had to navigate the pesky and overwhelming task of creating nutrition labels in order to sell through retailers. They learned way too much about food labels in the process and thought why not share it with the rest of the food world? So they did :)