Posts by Kevin Wiley-Drake
Food Product Optimization: Balancing Competing Goals
Food product optimization involves a fine balance between multiple competing objectives such as nutrition, taste, cost, shelf life, processing constraints, ingredient availability, and the ability to obtain desired certifications. Achieving this balance presents a complex but worthwhile challenge for the food industry. This paper explores the strategies and technologies that enable businesses to navigate these…
Read MoreWhich Certifications are Important for My Nutrition Bar Co-Packer to Have?
Which Certifications Should My Co-Packer Hold? Gluten-free Non-GMO Organic Kosher Safe Quality Food (SQF) When nutrition bar companies partner with co-packers, it’s important for those co-packers to hold certain certifications. There are many different certifications and capabilities available, and choosing a co-packer that holds the right ones to help your brand improve its reach and…
Read More5 FAQs About Nutrition Bar Co-Packing Answered
5 Frequently Asked Nutrition Bar Co-Packing Questions How do I know if I should work with a co-packer? Why should my company work with an experienced co-packer? What am I responsible for when working with a co-packer? Should my company use a co-packer or a private labeler? How do I get started with a co-packer?…
Read More5 Benefits of Working With an Experienced Co-Packer
As a growing nutrition bar company, you put time, money and effort into your business and investments, and want solid returns. Due diligence is done with every aspect of growth and budgeting, and margins are trimmed to be healthy enough to face the unexpected. The product is proven and tested, and you just want to…
Read MoreIs Private Labeling Right for My Nutrition Bar Company?
Have you thought of a unique business idea for the nutrition bar space, but weren’t sure where to begin? Running a business is more than just coming up with the idea, and in the food and beverage industry, there are additional steps to complete before your product goes to market. Once you have a great…
Read MoreHow to Choose the Right Nutrition Bar Co-Packer
Many start-up bar companies will come to a point where they need to engage with a co-packer as a crucial step in the success and growth of the business. At this stage, the co-packer handles the production of your nutrition or snack bar, while you focus on growing your sales and brand. Finding the right…
Read MoreWhat Does SQF Certified Mean?
SQF Certification in the Nutrition Bar Industry The SQF certification is a worldwide food safety program that is designed to deliver consistent standards of quality across all industry sectors. This ensures that only the highest quality raw ingredients make their way into SQF products and are handled by trained food safety professionals at every stage…
Read MoreIntroducing Clean Copack: A Nutrition Bar Co-Packer
It all started with a vision to combine healthy food with social and environmental activism into one great tasting snack. When we as BumbleBar accomplished our goal of doing this by creating our own line of nutritious energy bars, we wanted to make it possible for others to do the same, so Clean Copack was…
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