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Reformulation and product innovation

Reformulation is where companies innovate to change the composition of a food or drink product to reduce portion-size, calories, fat, sugars and salt content or increase nutrients such as fibre or micronutrients. It can be hugely impactful.

Examples of reformulation include low fat cheese spreads, semi-skimmed milk, fibre-rich cereal and low- and no-sugar drinks where reformulation and processing innovations help to maintain taste of the product to be acceptable to the consumer.

Learn more about how your business can reformulate and innovate with our resources and best practices below.

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Portion sizes for the purposes of nutrition labelling - a proposed approach

Current legislation requires that nutrition information is provided on pack per 100g or 100ml. FoodDrinkEurope, formerly CIAA, supports the provision of nutrition information in this way as it helps consumers to compare the energy and...

Portion sizes for the purposes of nutrition labelling - a proposed approach

Guidance on the provision of food information to consumers

This Guidance document is intended for interested stakeholders, such as food business operators (includingsmall and medium-sized enterprises as well as large food business operators) and EU policy-makers. Following an evaluation of the legislation on food...

Guidance on the provision of food information to consumers

Reference Intakes

Find out what you need to know about the European food and drink industry’s labelling scheme, how to use it and why it’s was chosen to appear on many of your favourite products. In Europe,...

Reference Intakes