Smart Label: Nutritional Facts & Label Management Made Smarter for Your Food Business

With compliance standards evolving across different markets, food businesses must ensure their product labels are precise, up-to-date, and aligned with regional regulations. Whether you're targeting multiple markets or trying to streamline internal approvals, the process of creating a label involves much more than just placing text on packaging.

Smart Label, a nutritional fact and labeling management solution from Smart Food Safe, is designed to simplify this process end-to-end by offering a user-friendly platform that enables effortless creation of compliant nutrition facts labels with integrated recipe and menu management, accurate nutrient information, and customizable formats.

Here’s a clear look at how Smart Label works and why it offers real advantages for food businesses.

Everything Starts with the Right Foundation

Before creating any ingredients or labels, Smart Label requires users to build a clean and structured data foundation. This involves configuring what’s known as master data—essentially all the baseline information that drives consistency and accuracy across your labeling system.

You will set up elements like:

• Global Material Groups (for example, “Vegetables”)
• Material Groups (e.g., “Carrot”)
• Individual Materials (e.g., “Carrot Puree”)
• Units of measurement, nutrient definitions, allergens, and claims

This hierarchy—Global Material Group → Material Group → Material—keeps things organized and aligned with how your business operates.

Managing Allergen and Claim Information

Smart Label simplifies the management of allergen and nutritional claim data by embedding these critical elements into both the ingredient and label creation process.

• During ingredient creation, you can manually assign allergens (e.g., Milk, Soy, Gluten, Tree Nuts) using a predefined list that aligns with regulatory requirements in different regions.
• Claims—such as “Low Fat,” “Source of Fiber,” or “No Added Sugar”—can be tagged at the ingredient level based on nutrient content or product formulation.
• The system supports both regulatory-defined nutrient content claims and custom marketing claims, allowing flexibility without compromising compliance.
• When you assemble a label, allergen declarations and validated claims are automatically pulled from the approved ingredient data, ensuring nothing is missed or inconsistently presented.

This eliminates manual duplication, prevents oversight, and ensures your final product labels remain transparent and regulation-ready.

Recipe Builder Within Label Creation

Smart Label doesn’t just manage standalone ingredients—it supports full recipe creation as part of the label-building process.

You can:

• Add multiple ingredients to create a composite recipe or sub-recipe
• Define ingredient quantities by serving or by batch
• Have nutrient values automatically calculated based on the total formulation
• Scale recipes as needed without losing precision

This dynamic approach ensures that your final nutrient label is based on real formulation data, and is ready for scaling, auditing, and regulatory inspection.

Building Labels that Conform to Relevant Regulatory Requirements

With ingredients and recipes ready, you can move on to building your labels. Smart Label lets you select from regulatory-compliant templates based on where the product will be sold.

During label creation, you will:

1. Choose the material and name of the label
2. Upload product images
3. Add ingredients from your databases
4. Input nutrient values based on serving sizes
5. Link any related allergens and claims
6. Customize additional details like language (English, French, or Spanish), costing, specific gravity, and barcode format

You can then select the appropriate country-specific label format, submit it through the same review and approval process to finally preview and export print-ready labels. With support for multiple languages and regions, you can avoid rework and meet requirements from day one.

Percentage Daily Value for Diverse Populations

Smart Label provides full support for calculating and displaying % Daily Values (DV) on nutrition facts panels within the label creation process, critical for helping consumers understand nutrient contributions per serving.

You can:

• Include % DV for Adults, Children, Infants, and Pregnant Women
• Configure reference intake standards by region or demographic
• Ensure your label complies with target market regulations

This feature ensures transparency and meets the expectations of health-conscious consumers and regulators alike.

Maintaining Control Through Custom Workflows

Smart Label includes configurable workflows for both ingredient and label management, allowing you to assign roles such as creator, reviewer, and approver. You can also:

• Have separate or combined workflows for ingredients and labels
• Track status in real-time (e.g., Draft, In Review, Approved, Published)
• Enforce quality checks and maintain a clear audit trail.

Workflows ensure that each label and ingredient passes through a defined quality check process and goes through the necessary oversight, making your system more audit-ready and transparent.

Everything You Need in One Central Dashboard

The built-in dashboard gives your team complete visibility over the labeling process. You can track the progress of every item—what’s been created, what’s pending review, and what’s been approved or published. With a clear, centralized view of all activity, teams stay aligned and nothing slips through the cracks.

A Closer Look at the Key Offerings of Smart Label

If your team is still managing food labeling through spreadsheets or disconnected systems, Smart Label offers a practical and powerful alternative. It combines structure, automation, and compliance into one integrated platform, saving time while reducing risk.