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App features
[Basic plan]
• Show food labeling (name, ingredients, net quantity, storage method, and more) and nutrition facts on product pages
• Supports the 29 specified allergenic ingredients (Japan)
• Product search by multiple conditions such as “egg-free, dairy-free”
• Bulk add, update, and export with CSV
• Add shared ingredients to multiple products with the ingredient master
• $4.99/mo or $49.9/yr (7-day free trial)
Note
Please do the final check of the displayed content yourself. The app does not judge or guarantee legal compliance, and does not calculate nutrition values.
This article explains how to look up food label information from "Shopify Sidekick", the AI assistant in the Shopify admin. SAKU Food Labeling's Sidekick integration only reads data; it never changes anything.
In this article
- What Sidekick can do
- What it can't do
- Example questions
- How to read the answers
Where to go: SAKU Food Labeling app → Shopify admin → Sidekick
What you need before you start
- The SAKU Food Labeling app is installed and the Sidekick integration is enabled.
- On a live store, a plan is registered (without one, a billing-related error may come back).
- Food labels entered for the products you want to look up (products without one show up in the "no food label yet" list).
1️⃣ What it can do
Open Sidekick in the Shopify admin and ask it, and it can tell you things like:
- Products that contain, or don't use, certain allergens (up to 20 results)
- The food label of a single product (ingredients, additives, allergens, nutrition facts, storage, date, origin and responsible party)
- A list of products with no food label entered yet
- Your saved display settings (with a link to "Food label settings")
- Directions and steps for the Edit food labels, CSV, Food label settings, Ingredient master and made-without collection screens
2️⃣ What it can't do
The Sidekick tools are read-only. They don't do the following — always do these in the app's screens:
- Save or change food labels
- Import CSV files
- Create collections
- Change settings
It also doesn't give answers that guarantee compliance with Japan's Food Labeling Act or other regulations.
3️⃣ Example questions
Type a question like these into the Sidekick box. When an answer comes back, you're done.
- "Which products have no food label yet?"
- "Which products don't use egg?"
- "Show me the food label for the butter cookies."
- "I want to bulk register with CSV." (it will point you to the right screen)
4️⃣ How to read the answers
- Search results show up to 20 items.
- The list of products with no food label checks up to 250 products. If some might be missed, use "Show only products not entered yet" in the app's "Edit food labels".
- Searches for products that "don't use" an allergen follow each product's "Allergen check scope". Products whose scope is "Not checked" aren't included.
- "Contains" searches use the allergens registered in the allergen section. Allergens that only appear in the ingredients text aren't found.
- For reliable results, use the official names of the 29 allergens (for example, 卵 egg, 乳 milk, えび shrimp).
Troubleshooting
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Sidekick doesn't answer questions about food labels
Check that the app is installed and the Sidekick integration is enabled. It can take some time for the integration to take effect. -
A billing-related error comes back on a live store
You may not have a plan. See "Pricing plans, free trial and development stores". -
Not enough results
Each answer shows up to 20 items. Narrow down your question, or filter in the app's "Edit food labels".
*This app is a support tool that helps you organize, display and enter food label information. It does not guarantee or determine compliance with Japan's Food Labeling Act or other regulations. Please do the final check of your labels yourself.
