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When you own a food company, budgeting can be a challenge. When every step of the process of getting your product to market seems to require a significant amount of money, it may feel like your [...]

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 [...]

Being a food manufacturer is no easy feat, especially when you produce your first product. Basically, it’s just one thing after another. When you’ve finally perfected your food product, for [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Kathryn was crazy about cheesecake. For as long as she could remember, she’d been baking them with her mother for every birthday and holiday. As she got older, she began tweaking her mother’s [...]

Starting out in the food manufacturing business can feel overwhelming. Tweaking and testing your product until it reaches perfection is tough enough, but you’ve also got to consider marketing, [...]

For decades, dietary fats were demonized in America. While modern nutritional science has now shown us that not all fats are bad, fat intake remains an important consideration in our overall [...]

Natural food is growing in popularity these days. We see labels that read “nothing artificial” and “100% natural” everywhere. Costco offers a wider selection of more wholesome food products, and [...]