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Labeling & NutritionNutrition Labeling Software: What Growing CPG Teams Need
You're evaluating nutrition labeling software because a spreadsheet, a PDF template, or a one-off label service is no longer cutting it. Maybe you're adding SKUs, entering a new market, or facing a reformulation that touches allergen declarations across three regions. The stakes are real: the FDA recorded 241 recalls and alerts for food and beverages in 2024, and compliance management accounts for 28.5% of the food labeling software market.
Labeling & NutritionNoise Nutrition: How Sensory-Maximalist CPG Products Are Changing Ingredient Specification
The loudest products on shelf right now, 14 flavor descriptors on the front panel, visible inclusions, a heat-plus-sweet-plus-sour trifecta, are not accidents. They are the result of deliberate, specification-level decisions that most formulation workflows were never designed to handle.
Labeling & NutritionPoland Just Said No to Nutri-Score: Why One-Size-Fits-All Nutrition Labels Can't Work, and Why Personalized, Data-Driven Nutrition Is the Better Path
In September 2026, Poland's Ministry of Health made a decision that most of the food industry noticed but few have fully processed. After consulting 25 industry and scientific organizations, 22 of them opposed Nutri-Score front-of-pack labeling. The Ministry responded by formally initiating a withdrawal. No new Nutri-Score products after December 31, 2028. Existing stock off shelves by December 31, 2030. Reported through IGI Food Law and Rynek Zdrowia, this is one of the clearest regulatory signals yet that a single letter on a package cannot carry the weight we've asked it to carry.
Labeling & NutritionSugar Alternatives for Baking: A Formulator's Guide to Clean-Label Sweeteners
Replacing sucrose in a baked good sounds straightforward until you're three iterations deep and your cookies are spreading flat, your muffins are gummy, and your shelf-life projections are off by two weeks. Sugar does a lot of structural work that most sweetener swap guides quietly ignore.
Labeling & NutritionThe Real Cost of a Failed Product Launch in CPG, And How to Avoid It
A failed product launch doesn't just hurt your quarterly numbers. It drains R&D budgets, strains retailer relationships, and sets your roadmap back by months. And most of the root causes are predictable, and preventable.
Labeling & NutritionFrozen Food Recall June 2026: What's Happening, What to Check, and What It Says About the Food System
Three separate frozen food recalls landed in U.S. freezers this June. Different brands, different hazards, different root causes, but the same underlying story about where food safety systems are still falling short.
Labeling & NutritionClean-Label Formulation: How to Replace Synthetic Additives Without Killing Your Margin
We're at an inflection point in CPG product development. Consumers are reading ingredient labels more carefully than ever, retailers are tightening their "free-from" requirements, and regulatory scrutiny on synthetic additives is intensifying across the US, EU, and MENA markets. The pressure to go clean-label is real. So is the pressure to stay profitable.
Labeling & NutritionGroceries and Processed Food: What the Ingredient Labels Are Really Telling You in 2026
You flip a package over. The front says "natural." The back lists 27 ingredients.
Labeling & NutritionFast Food Ingredients Exposed: What's Really in Your Favorite Menu Items in 2026
You've probably wondered what's actually in that burger. Not the marketing version, the real one.
Labeling & NutritionHow to Score Ingredients Across Nutrition, Cost, and Sustainability at the Same Time
Table of Contents Food scientists and product developers face an impossible choice: optimize for nutrition, cost, or sustainability. Pick one, sacrifice the others. Your protein po
Labeling & NutritionRFK Jr.'s UPF Petition Pledge: What It Means for CPG Founders in 2026
The FDA is being asked to revoke GRAS status for corn syrup, HFCS, and dozens of refined starches. Here’s what’s at stake, and how ingredient intelligence becomes your competitive edge.
Labeling & NutritionOld vs. New: Chobani and Yoplait Yogurt Comparison
When going to the dairy isle of any supermarket it is nigh impossible to miss the daunting wall of yogurts that are bound to be there. The food made from fermented dairy is indeed
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