As a general rule, if a value of a custom field is empty, its corresponding Metafield either does not exist or is an empty string.
A test for that particular custom field will not return anything ("blank" in Liquid terms), which gives you a nice clean syntax for checking if a given field has a value:
{% if product.metafields.accentuate.title %} <h1>{{ product.metafields.accentuate.title }}</h1> {% endif %}
If you need to show a default value in case nothing is assigned to a Metafield, you can use the 'default' Liquid filter:
For multi-language fields, where there can be a value for one language and no value for another, you will need to test if the content for a specific language is a blank string or not:
{% if product.metafields.accentuate.message['en'] !=blank %} <p>{{ product.metafields.accentuate.message['en'] }}</p>{% endif %}
Repeatable fields
If you are testing to see if an element in a repeatable field has a value, you need to test if the element's value is either an empty string or null, both of which can be tested via the length of the element's value:
{% for ingredient in product.metafields.accentuate.ingredients %} {% if ingredient.size >0 %} <p>{{ ingredient }}</p> {% endif %}{% endfor %}
And, if you are testing to see if a repeatable field has any elements at all:
Please see this article for details on using the size filter.