Supplement Nutrition Labels are Now on PricePlow!

Today, we’re proud to announce that PricePlow now has nutrition labels!

To be more exact, 81% of PricePlow‘s products have ingredient labels.

This post is about how it works, and what we’re doing with that information next.

Updated product page design

We redesigned the product pages a little bit, stuffing even more information in, and making it work a lot better on mobile browsers.

On a desktop/laptop browser, you’ll now see the label, courtesy of our Muscle Elements AmiNo Flow page:

Don’t worry, that janky Read More button is next on the chopping block. Did we mention how much we like this supplement?

As you can see, we jammed the label in there, and the actual text content is what got the shaft. But do any of you read that stuff anyway?

The ingredient label has its own scrollbar, making the insanely long ones easier to see. But if you click on the Read More button, the nutrition facts label will automatically expand.

We’ll be updating that Read More button this week with a fresher design.

The Mobile Layout

The mobile layout before this was a total mess. Now we have this:

Much better than the mess we had before!

You should first see image, the quick deals links, the ingredients, and you can click to read the actual product description. After that come the full price comparison listings.

The Tech

Love this stuff! We will need to add a divider between the ‘Nutrition’ part and the ‘Ingredients’ part (ie between the Sodium and the Muscle Growth & Recovery Blend)

This shouldn’t seem like a big deal — after all, most stores have labels, right?

But we’re not a store, so it is a big deal for a few reasons:

• There is no real standard for ingredient labels.
• Most stores simply have labels that are saved as basic HTML.
• There is no official database for ingredient labels. You’d think the FDA or some agency would maintain one, but they do not.

So, like everything else on this site, we have to duct tape together what we can. A common tech phrase that applies to us on almost all fronts is that “PricePlow is the dog that eats the cat’s poop.”

But we try our best to the best damned poop-eating dog out there, and the ingredient labels don’t look too shabby for a v1 release.

Note to Brands

Hey brand ambassadors: If your labels aren’t up on PricePlow, get in touch with us. We’ll have to setup an ‘official’ way to get an ingredient label off of a CSV file, for instance.

Thanks for reading – keep plowing it down until next time!

– Mike and the Team at PricePlow

Behind the scenes, PricePlow’s latest technology looks something like this. Image courtesy Strapping Young Lad. City is one of the greatest heavy metal lifting albums of all time.