Information management system for product ingredients to fill gaps in the market and to determine proper attribution

An ingredient data system that ingests text and graphics of product labels associated with consumer products, the system comprising:

• a memory having instructions stored thereon;
• and
• at least one processor to execute the instructions to:
• process and parse the text and graphics of images of the product labels to identify at least one piece of constituent information from the text and graphics, associate one or more base attributes to each piece of the constituent information, and assign one or more of the base attributes to one or more master attributes that are descriptive of one of claims, ingredients, and nutritional information of one or more of the consumer products having the product labels;
• store in a database the images of the product labels, one or more of the base attributes, and one or more of the master attributes associated with each of the product labels of the consumer products;
• receive a first request about one or more of the consumer products having one or more of the master attributes;
• retrieve at least a portion of one of one or more of the images of the product labels from the database based on one or more of the master attributes associated with the first request and at least a portion of one or more images of product labels associated with related consumer products from the database having at least one master attribute different from one or more of the master attributes associated with the first request;
• and
• transmit via a network a representation of an electronic label view to a user interface on a client computing device that displays one or more of the master attributes associated with the first request, at least a portion of each of the images of one or more of the product labels having one or more of the master attributes associated with the first request, and at least a portion of each of the images of one or more of the product labels associated with the related consumer products, wherein the first request is from one of a retailer and a brand owner, and wherein the electronic label view displays via the user interface at least a portion of each of the images of one or more of the product labels of the consumer products that are not associated with the first request and detail regarding constituent information set forth in or absent from one or more of the product labels associated with the related consumer products having at least one master attribute different from one or more of the master attributes associated with the first request.