Nutrition Facts Label Generator

Start by working out the nutrition content of a single serving, not the whole recipe. Add up the values for every ingredient using a reliable nutrition database, then divide by the number of servings the recipe yields. Enter those per-serving figures into the generator above and it will lay them out in the standard Nutrition Facts format and calculate the percent Daily Values for you. For a product sold commercially, be aware that most jurisdictions require the underlying data to be verifiable — either from laboratory analysis or from a recognised nutrient database — so keep a record of where each figure came from.

Percent Daily Value shows how much a nutrient in one serving contributes to a daily diet, based on a 2,000-calorie reference intake for adults and children aged four and over. The reference amounts used here follow the current FDA Daily Values: 78 g total fat, 20 g saturated fat, 300 mg cholesterol, 2,300 mg sodium, 275 g total carbohydrate, 28 g dietary fibre, 50 g added sugars, 50 g protein, 20 mcg vitamin D, 1,300 mg calcium, 18 mg iron and 4,700 mg potassium. A useful rule of thumb for reading any label: 5% DV or less is considered low for that nutrient, and 20% DV or more is considered high.

Total sugars has no established Daily Value because it includes sugars that occur naturally in foods such as fruit and milk, and there is no recommended daily limit for naturally occurring sugars. Added sugars, by contrast, does carry a Daily Value of 50 g, reflecting the recommendation that added sugars stay below roughly 10% of total daily calories. This is why the two are listed separately on the modern label, with added sugars indented beneath total sugars. If your product contains no added sugars, that line should show 0 g rather than being omitted.

Serving sizes on packaged food are not arbitrary — they are meant to reflect the amount people actually eat in one sitting, not a recommended portion. Regulators publish reference amounts for different food categories, and a compliant label uses those rather than a figure chosen by the manufacturer. This matters because understating serving size makes every other number on the label look smaller. If your package contains one to two servings by that standard, it is generally treated as a single serving, since people typically consume the whole thing at once.

It depends entirely on where you sell, what you sell, and at what scale. Many jurisdictions exempt very small businesses, foods sold directly to consumers at markets, and products made and sold on the same premises — but exemptions vary widely and often disappear the moment you make a nutrient content claim such as "low fat" or "high in protein". Rules also differ substantially between the United States, the EU, the UK and elsewhere in both format and required nutrients. This generator produces a label in the US FDA format for informational and design purposes; before printing anything that goes on a product for sale, confirm the requirements with your local food standards authority.

Regulatory tolerances exist but they are tighter than most people expect, and they cut in different directions depending on the nutrient. Broadly, nutrients that consumers want more of — fibre, protein, vitamins, minerals — must be present at no less than a set proportion of the declared amount, while nutrients consumers limit — calories, fat, sodium, sugars — must not substantially exceed what is declared. Database-derived values are usually acceptable for low-risk products, but laboratory analysis is the safer route for anything sold at scale or making a nutrient claim. Rounding rules also apply: calories, for instance, are rounded to the nearest 5 below 50 and the nearest 10 above.

The Nutrition Facts panel format itself is a regulatory standard rather than proprietary design, so reproducing the layout is not a copyright issue. What matters is whether the label is compliant — correct serving size determination, the required nutrients for your product category, proper rounding, accurate values, and the right typography and spacing rules, which are specified in surprising detail in the regulations. Use this generator to plan, prototype and check your figures, then have the final artwork reviewed against current requirements before it goes to print.