We're excited to announce that Menutail, your go-to food nutrition facts label website, now supports sesame allergen labeling for all labels! With our new sesame allergen labeling feature, you can easily include sesame as an allergen on your food nutr...
The new FDA Labels asks you to identify what is an added sugar. The FDA Defines added sugars as: --- The definition of added sugars includes sugars that are either added during the processing of foods, or are packaged as such, and include sugars (free...
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Continuing our journey today is generating a list of the foods highest in potassium backed by real nutrition data. We wanted to do this because around the Internet, we definietely have seen that most of the potassium lists are wildly inaccurate. ...
Around the Internet, you may have seen a lot of lists saying here are the "Top Vegetarian Foods Highest in Protein". At Menutail, we have decided to put the accuracy of all of these lists to the test by generating our own list, except backe...
The FDA just released a document in the federal register https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/30/2016-31597/food-labeling-nutrition-labeling-of-standard-menu-items-in-restaurants-and-similar-retail-food That the compliance date of the fin...
The FDA has sent out the following e-mail this morning. Note that these are nonbinding regulations.----------------------------------------------------The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued two draft guidance documents related to...
When Menutail was implementing the design for the new nutrition facts labels, we saw rules about fonts and hairlines, but like the original label, the FDA did not specify an explicit rule on the actual font you have to use. Instead, what the FDA releas...
Overview Download PDF Version Of This Document This document is a compilation of all important links involving the new FDA nutrition facts labels for food vendors. As always, if you have any questions, feel free to e-mail us at contact@menutail.com. &...
A lot of people have been asking if maltodextrin is an added sugar, and the FDA has sent this response: We issued draft guidance in January of this year that address sugars created through hydrolysis, such as maltodextrin. Please see our response...
Download PDF Ebook Below is a a zip file containing all of the sample labels from a cookie recipe.Download Sample PDF Labels Video Overview: On May 27, 2016 the FDA approved a new redesigned label for food manufacturers. You can read more in the...
On May 20th, 2016 the FDA annouced new changes to the Nutrition Facts Labels: http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/LabelingNutrition/ucm385663.htm Here are some new timelines * On 7/26/2016 t...
The USDA just released their new dataset called USDA SR-28. In this new dataset contains detailed lab analysis for almond milk! This means if you are an almond milk producer, you can use our system to generate a nutrition facts label without doi...
Previously, the deadline for nutrition labeling for restaurants was December 1,2015. The FDA just issued a federal register that now changes the final compliance date to December 1, 2016. For more information you can read https://www.feder...
The FDA recently announced two webinar classes. March 24th, 1:00-3:00pm EDTThis will be a presentation on a) Nutrition Labeling of Standard Menu Items in Restaurants and Similar Retail Food Establishments, and b) Calorie labeling of Articles of...
The FDA just issued a ruling about when the compliance dates on when everyone needs to have the new redesigned label on their package. January 1, 2018 will be the deadline for the new labels. Which is basically 3 years from now. It looks like ...
After many years of delay, the FDA final released the final rules for menu labeling in restaurants. The final ruling can be read here. Here is a short summary of the ruling. What are calorie menu labeling rules?If you meet criteria, your food est...
Before we talk about pickled foods, let us look a little bit more into what happens when things are pickled. I recommend picking up the Art of Fermentation for general knowledge about the science and good recipes for pickling. Here are 3 ex...
The FDA recently issued two draft proposal notices that will change the design and information of the nutrition facts label.https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/03/03/2014-04387/food-labeling-revision-of-the-nutrition-and-supplement-facts-labels &n...
This week, the Boston Globe wrote an article about how Americans are beginning to take a closer look at food labels. In particular, one of the big online presences causing a lot of the change is Food Babe. Her site is quite effective of rall...
At Menutail, we care greatly about the security and privacy of your data. In this post, we are going to talk a little bit about how the data travels, and how it is stored. As you enter your recipe formula, your connection is first secured with SSL. ...
In 2010, the US Congress passed the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In the ACA was Section 4205 which defined a menu calorie labeling provision. This applies to you if: You are a retail food establishment with 20 or more locations How this works ...
We are launching our first afilliate program of 2013! If you successfully refer a friend to subscribe to a new Menutail plan, then you will get a free month credit. The credits are stackable, so if you refer two friends, you will get two free months. ...
In May 28,2013 the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Treade Bureau (TTB) issued a ruling that allows the voluntary nutrition facts labeling of wine: http://www.ttb.gov/rulings/2013-2.pdf If you are a wine producer, there probably isn't a strong motivation to do ...
A common question we get is if a food vendor has to submit their food product to a laboratory for nutrition for analysis.The FDA has said the following in their guidance document:---N37. Is there a problem with using ingredient composition data bases t...