Happy New Year and welcome to UPC Food Search’s ninth update, or well it really should be update #102 (well I certainly lost count at some point). This update is very much our biggest update to date and the first update to be posted on our new shiny blog. We decided to re-structure many areas of the site and add some new features. I won’t bore you with any technical details so on to the list of new updates.

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Repost of our seventh update:

We have several big updates for today!

New Features and Changes

• New Site Wide Comment System
  • Guests and Members can now leave comments on product, ingredient and manufacturer pages.
• Reworked Artificial/Natural tagging system for products to the following:
  • Artificial
  • Artificial & Possibly Unsafe
  • Natural
  • Natural & Possibly Unsafe
  • Both (Can be derived from Natural & Artificial Sources)
  • Both (Can be derived from Natural & Artificial Sources) & Possibly Unsafe
• Added new, “GMO Free” field for products.
• Tweaked top random quick stat bar
• Fixed some small bugs and typos

Repost of our sixth update:

These past few months we’ve actually been busy making lots of tweaks and fixing bugs to UPC Food Search without posting any updates.

Changes made in the last few months.

• Added new “Derived From” field for ingredients
• Now ingredients will be tagged from where they derive; animal, plant or synthetic sources.
• Several bug fixes

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Repost of our fifth update:

A few minor changes and improvements for today.

• Ingredients are now color coded on each product according to type
• A few bugs fixed

Repost of our 4th update:

Small update for today.

• Removed welcome text at top and replaced it with our new Random Quick Stats box.
• Removed the auto search for product names. It was unnecessary and bogged down the server.
• Made some other small minor changes and fixes to the site.

Repost of our third update:

Our third update is our biggest yet. We are happy to announce several new features, fixes and enhancements.
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