New Nutrition Facts Label: What’s New Food Labels to Show & How to Automate the Processes?
If your food product is not properly labeled, your product will not get entry to the US market. The US Food and Drug Administration regulates the US food and beverage industry and wants that the foods and beverages sold in the US market are safe, nutritional, and properly labeled.
This labeling rule applies to packaged foods and beverages and to those foods and beverages also that are produced domestically, as well as those imported from foreign countries.
Now, let’s see what details your food labels should include:
- Name of food/product
- Country of origin for the product
- Ingredients
- Nutritional information
- English language labeling
- Food allergens
- Chemicals/food additives used
In the nutritional section, the food label would be showing serving size, potassium and vitamin D, added sugar, and calories, among others. Serving size indicates the quantity of food to eat at one sitting. New labels will not show information about “Calories from Fat,” because the type of fat is more important than the amount. “Total Fat,” “Saturated Fat,” and “Trans Fat” will continue to be required. The Daily Value (DV) is the recommended amount of a specific nutrient that you should consume per day.
The new nutrition facts label includes the amount of added sugar per serving. Potassium and vitamin D were also added to the new label.
Now that the food processors need to analyze or calculate food nutrients and then create food labels. They might need to produce labels in numbers and if they get it done through the laboratory method, it will take time and be expensive too.
On the contrary, they can use a food nutrition facts analysis and labeling tool that can automate the entire process from analysis to generation of food labels in compliance with new nutrition facts label guidelines put in by the FDA.
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