For home bakers and small food makers

Nutrition Label Generator

Paste the recipe the way you wrote it. Get the Nutrition Facts panel, ingredient list and allergen statement — ready to print.

No sign-up to preview.

Sample · Chocolate chip cookies

Ingredients: Semisweet chocolate chips, all-purpose flour, unsalted butter, brown sugar, sugar, eggs, salt, baking soda, vanilla extract.

Contains: Milk, Eggs, Wheat, Soy.

What it is

LabelMyRecipe is a nutrition label generator for home bakers and small food makers. Paste a recipe in cups, spoons or grams and it calculates the Nutrition Facts from USDA data, applies FDA rounding, writes the ingredient list and allergen statement, and lays it out for printing.

Examples01 / 10

A label for every kitchen

Six real recipes, each calculated from USDA FoodData Central data and rounded by the FDA rules. Serving sizes follow the FDA reference amounts for each kind of food. Open any recipe to see exactly what was pasted in.

Chocolate chip cookies

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Ingredients: Semisweet chocolate chips (sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, milkfat, soy lecithin, natural flavor), enriched bleached wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), butter (cream, salt), brown sugar (sugar, molasses), sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, salt, baking soda.

Contains: Wheat, Milk, Eggs, Soy.

The chips outweigh the flour in this recipe, so they come first in the ingredient list. They also bring milk and soy into the Contains statement.

Recipe as pasted
  • 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 cup salted butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Makes 36 cookies, about 33 g each after baking.

Strawberry jam

02

Ingredients: Strawberries, sugar, lemon juice.

Twelve grams of sugar in a tablespoon, and nearly all of it is added. The berries themselves contribute less than a gram.

Recipe as pasted
  • 2 lb fresh strawberries, hulled
  • 4 cups granulated sugar
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice

Cooked to a set; fills six 8 oz jars (about 1,360 g).

Hot sauce

03

Ingredients: Red chili peppers, distilled vinegar, water, garlic, salt.

A one-teaspoon serving rounds almost every line to zero. Sodium is the number a hot sauce label is really about, and it stays.

Recipe as pasted
  • 1 lb red chili peppers, stemmed
  • 1 cup distilled white vinegar
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 2 tsp salt

Simmered and blended; about 800 g of sauce.

Granola

04

Ingredients: Rolled oats, honey, almonds, olive oil, vanilla extract, salt, cinnamon.

Contains: Tree Nuts (Almonds).

Honey counts as added sugar. Almonds are a tree nut, so the Contains statement names them specifically.

Recipe as pasted
  • 3 cups rolled oats
  • 1 cup sliced almonds
  • 1/3 cup honey
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp salt

Baked until golden; about 480 g.

Sourdough bread

05

Ingredients: Enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, salt.

Contains: Wheat.

Flour, water, salt. The enriched flour has sub-ingredients of its own, and they still belong in the list.

Recipe as pasted
  • 500 g bread flour
  • 375 g water
  • 100 g sourdough starter (equal parts flour and water)
  • 10 g salt

One loaf, about 840 g after baking.

Honey

06

Ingredients: Honey.

One ingredient, and all of its sugar is declared as added sugar. FDA also lets single-ingredient honey show only the % Daily Value, with the grams in a footnote.

Recipe as pasted
  • Raw wildflower honey, nothing added

Bottled as is.

Before you start02 / 10

Do you need a nutrition label at all?

Maybe not. Federal rules exempt many small food businesses from the Nutrition Facts panel, and most label tools never mention it. Three questions settle it for most makers.

The thresholds come from FDA’s small business nutrition labeling exemption and the rule behind it, 21 CFR 101.9(j). This is a plain-language summary, not legal advice. Read the originals before you rely on an exemption.

An exemption covers the Nutrition Facts panel only. The ingredient list and the allergen declaration are separate requirements, and LabelMyRecipe makes both on the free tier.

State cottage food laws add label lines of their own and differ from state to state. California, for example, requires the words “Made in a Home Kitchen” and a permit number, and says a Nutrition Facts panel is generally not required unless the label makes a nutrient content or health claim. Check your own state before you print.

Exempt makers still end up needing a panel when a grocery store or another retail buyer asks for one. That is usually the moment people arrive here.

  1. Question 1

    Does your label, website or advertising make a nutrition claim or show any nutrition information?

    Think “low sugar”, “high protein”, or a calorie count on a product page.

    Yes
    You need a Nutrition Facts panel. A claim cancels both exemptions below.
    No
    Go to question 2.

  2. Question 2

    Do you sell directly to consumers, with total annual sales of $500,000 or less, or food sales of $50,000 or less?

    Sales are averaged over your most recent two years.

    Yes
    You are exempt as a small retailer. There is no notice to file with FDA.
    No
    Go to question 3.

  3. Question 3

    Do you have fewer than 100 full-time equivalent employees and sell fewer than 100,000 units of this product a year in the U.S.?

    Count each product separately.

    Yes
    The product can be exempt as low-volume if you file a notice with FDA each year. The notice is waived if you are not an importer, have fewer than 10 full-time equivalent employees and sell fewer than 10,000 units.
    No
    You need a Nutrition Facts panel.
How it works03 / 10

From recipe to printed label in four steps

LabelMyRecipe is a nutrition label maker and a nutrition facts generator in one pass. The recipe goes in once, and the panel, the ingredient list and the allergen statement come out together.

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Your recipe

  1. 12 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  2. 21 tsp baking soda
  3. 31 tsp salt
  4. 41 cup salted butter, softened
  5. 53/4 cup granulated sugar
  6. 63/4 cup packed brown sugar
  7. 72 large eggs
  8. 82 tsp vanilla extract
  9. 92 cups semisweet chocolate chips
The recipe box, with a recipe pasted exactly as written.

Step 1 · Paste the recipe

Paste the recipe as text, or take a photo of it. Leave the quantities the way you wrote them: cups, tablespoons, teaspoons, ounces, pounds or grams. Each line becomes one ingredient with a weight in grams, shown back to you so nothing is converted behind your back.

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Recipe lineUSDA FoodData Central entryWeight
Semisweet chocolate chipsCandies, semisweet chocolate336 g
All-purpose flourWheat flour, white, all-purpose, enriched, bleached281 g
Salted butterButter, salted227 g
Brown sugarSugars, brown165 g
Granulated sugarSugars, granulated150 g
EggsEgg, whole, raw, fresh100 g
Each recipe line next to the USDA entry it was matched to.

Step 2 · Check the matches

Every ingredient is matched to an entry in USDA FoodData Central, and you see which entry was used. Store-bought ingredients such as chocolate chips or butter are unfolded into their own sub-ingredients, so the ingredient list and the allergen statement come out complete.

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Standard Vertical

Tabular

Linear

The three label formats: Standard Vertical, Tabular and Linear.

Step 3 · Set the serving, pick a format

Tell it how many servings the batch makes. The preview shows the label with FDA rounding applied. Choose the FDA Standard Vertical, Tabular or Linear format to suit the space on your package. Previewing needs no account and carries a watermark.

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A label sheet with every label placed in its die-cut position.

Step 4 · Download and print

Export the Nutrition Facts label as a PDF, PNG or SVG, or have it laid out on the Avery or OnlineLabels sheet you already own and print it at home. The ingredient list and allergen label download as a PNG on the free tier.

What goes on it04 / 10

Everything a food label has to say

A food label maker is only useful if you know what belongs on the label. These are the six parts a packaged food label carries under federal rules. LabelMyRecipe generates the three that take calculation and rule-following. The other three you add in your own design.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

NET WT 7 OZ (198g)

Ingredients: Semisweet chocolate chips (sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, milkfat, soy lecithin, natural flavor), enriched bleached wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), butter (cream, salt), brown sugar (sugar, molasses), sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, salt, baking soda.

Contains: Wheat, Milk, Eggs, Soy.

Baked by Your Bakery Name
Street address, City, ST ZIP

  1. 1

    Statement of identity

    You add this

    The common name of the food, on the front of the package. 21 CFR 101.3.

  2. 2

    Net quantity of contents

    You add this

    How much is in the package, by weight, measure or count, also on the front. 21 CFR 101.7.

  3. 3

    Nutrition Facts

    Generated for you

    Calories and nutrients per serving, in the format set by 21 CFR 101.9, unless your business or product is exempt.

  4. 4

    Ingredient list

    Generated for you

    Every ingredient by its common name, in descending order by weight. 21 CFR 101.4.

  5. 5

    Allergen declaration

    Generated for you

    Federal law names nine major food allergens: milk, eggs, fish, Crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybeans and sesame. Each one present is named in the ingredient list or in a “Contains” statement next to it.

  6. 6

    Name and place of business

    You add this

    The name and address of the manufacturer, packer or distributor. 21 CFR 101.5.

The generated parts export as image and PDF files, so they drop into a label you designed in Canva or any other design tool.

Who it is for05 / 10

Built for small-batch makers

People who make the food themselves, sell it in dozens or hundreds, and have never needed a food scientist.

Home bakers and cottage food sellers

You bake in your own kitchen and sell under your state’s cottage food law. Your state decides what a cottage food label must carry. Then a local store wants your cookies, and it asks for nutrition facts, ingredients and allergen information together. Paste the recipe once and all three are ready before the buyer follows up.

Sodium 30mg1%

Serving size 1 tsp (5mL)

Farmers market vendors

Jam, hot sauce, pickles, honey: small jars with very little room on them. Pick whichever of the Standard Vertical, Tabular and Linear formats fits the space you have, and the label is laid out on sheets you can print at home the night before the market.

Single label$19

One-time payment, for one product

Etsy and online shop sellers

Your customer cannot pick the bag up and turn it over, so the label has to do its job in a product photo. You sell a handful of products, not hundreds, so paying every month for labeling software makes little sense. A Single label is $19 once per product.

Granola290 calories per serving
Sourdough bread130 calories per serving
Honey60 calories per serving

Small brands moving into retail

A retailer’s onboarding checklist asks for nutrition facts, ingredient lists and allergen disclosures for every product you make. Pro covers watermark-free exports for every product you add, and you can reopen and re-export any saved recipe, for $15 a month or $129 a year.

Features06 / 10

A nutrition label generator that shows its work

Six things that decide whether a label made from a recipe can go on a package.

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour281 g
1 cup salted butter, softened227 g
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips336 g
01

Paste it the way you wrote it

Many tools make you search a database one ingredient at a time and enter every amount in grams. Here the whole recipe goes in at once, typed or photographed, in cups, tbsp, tsp, oz, lb or g. A line like “2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour” becomes a weight in grams without a kitchen scale or a conversion chart.

Ingredients: Semisweet chocolate chips (sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, milkfat, soy lecithin, natural flavor), …

Contains: Milk, Soy.

02

Store-bought ingredients, unfolded

Chocolate chips, butter and soy sauce have ingredient lists of their own. The FDA ingredient rule wants those sub-ingredients listed in parentheses after the ingredient’s name, and any allergen inside them still has to be declared. LabelMyRecipe unfolds them and carries milk, soy or wheat up into your Contains statement.

CalculatedOn the label
Calories156.6160
Total Fat8.3 g8g
Sodium146.6 mg150mg
Total Carbohydrate20.6 g21g
03

Rounded the way the FDA says

No label prints 156.6 calories. Under 21 CFR 101.9(c), calories round to the nearest 10 above 50, fat to the nearest half gram below 5 grams, and sodium to the nearest 10 milligrams above 140. The rounding is applied to every line for you, and the % Daily Values follow from it.

Strawberry jam, one tablespoon

Added: the sugar in the recipe · 11.7 gNot added: from the strawberries · 0.7 g
Total Sugars 12g
Includes 12g Added Sugars24%
04

Added sugars, counted correctly

Total Sugars and Added Sugars are separate lines. FDA counts the sugar, syrups and honey you add during processing as added sugars. The sugar that comes with fruit or milk is not. Each ingredient is classified, so the “Includes” line and its % Daily Value come out right.

05

Printed on the sheets you own

A finished label still has to land inside the die-cut. Choose your Avery or OnlineLabels sheet and the export is a PDF with every label already in position, ready for a home printer. Or take the single label as a PDF, PNG or SVG and place it in your own design.

Semisweet chocolate chipsCandies, semisweet chocolateFDC ID 167976
All-purpose flourWheat flour, white, all-purpose, enriched, bleachedFDC ID 168894
Salted butterButter, saltedFDC ID 173410
Brown sugarSugars, brownFDC ID 168833
06

See the math

The numbers are a calculation from USDA FoodData Central data, not a lab test. So nothing is hidden: for every ingredient you see the USDA entry it was matched to and the weight that was used. If a match looks wrong, you know which line to question before the label goes on a package.

Why this way07 / 10

LabelMyRecipe vs. the usual ways

Nutrition label software is one of four common routes to a label. Each trades money against your time, and each produces its numbers differently. A lab analysis cost buys a measured result. A calculator buys speed.

Lab analysis

Where the numbers come fromMeasured from a physical sample of your product

What you doShip samples, wait for the report, then lay the label out yourself

How you payPer product tested

Label consultant

Where the numbers come fromCalculated and reviewed by a person

What you doSend the recipe, answer questions, wait for the file

How you payPer label

Subscription labeling software

Where the numbers come fromDatabase calculation

What you doCreate an account, then search for and add each ingredient

How you payMonthly plan

Free label layout tools

Where the numbers come fromYou type in every number yourself

What you doFind the values somewhere else, then fill in a template

How you payFree

LabelMyRecipe

Where the numbers come fromCalculated from USDA FoodData Central data, with FDA rounding applied

What you doPaste the recipe and check the matches

How you pay$19 once per product, or Pro for unlimited products

When to choose something else: if a buyer asks for laboratory-verified values, a lab test is the right tool. A label calculated from a recipe is an estimate, however carefully it is made.

Your recipe is already written.

Paste it in and see the label before you decide anything.

Make my label
Pricing08 / 10

Pay per label, not per month

Preview as many recipes as you like for free, without an account. Pay once when a label is ready to go on a package. Pro is there when you have a whole product line.

Pricing Facts

3 plans. No sign-up to preview.

Free

$0

No account needed to preview

  • Paste or photograph a recipe
  • Watermarked Nutrition Facts preview
  • Ingredient list and allergen label as a PNG
  • Recipes saved to a free account
Start with a recipe

Single label

$19

One-time payment, for one product

  • Nutrition Facts label without the watermark
  • Standard Vertical, Tabular and Linear formats
  • PDF, PNG and SVG export
  • Laid out for Avery and OnlineLabels sheets
Get a single label

Pro

$15

Per month, or $129 per year

  • Everything in Single label
  • Unlimited products
  • One price, however many recipes you add
  • Re-export whenever a recipe changes
See Pro

One recipe, one product, one $19 label. Pro is the better fit once you have a product line to keep up to date.

In practice09 / 10

Three moments that call for a label

LabelMyRecipe is new, so there are no customer quotes to show yet. These are the situations it was built around.

Ingredients: Semisweet chocolate chips (sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, milkfat, soy lecithin, natural flavor), enriched bleached wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), butter (cream, salt), brown sugar (sugar, molasses), sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, salt, baking soda.

Contains: Wheat, Milk, Eggs, Soy.

The first wholesale order

A local grocery store wants to stock a home baker’s cookies, and asks for nutrition facts, ingredients and allergen information before the first delivery. The recipe is already written, so it goes in as it is. The store gets the Nutrition Facts panel, the ingredient list and the Contains statement as one set.

The market table

Strawberry jam in 8 oz jars needs its ingredients and nutrition facts on a label small enough for the side of the jar. A compact format and a sheet of blank labels cover it, printed at home on the printer that is already there.

  • Nutrition Facts
  • Ingredient list
  • Allergen declaration

The vendor checklist

A retailer’s onboarding form asks for nutrition facts, an ingredient list and allergen disclosures for every product in the line. Save each recipe as its own product, and with Pro export any of them whenever the retailer asks.

FAQ10 / 10

Questions makers ask first

Short answers, with the official source where there is one.

Not always. Federal rules exempt small retailers with total annual sales of $500,000 or less, or food sales of $50,000 or less. They also exempt low-volume products from businesses with fewer than 100 full-time equivalent employees and fewer than 100,000 units a year. Both exemptions end if the label or advertising makes a nutrition claim. If neither applies, the Nutrition Facts panel is required.

Often you do not. Homemade food sold under a state cottage food law follows that state’s label rules, and a small seller may also qualify for the federal small business exemption. California, for instance, says Nutrition Facts are generally not required for cottage food unless the label makes a nutrient content or health claim. You do need one when a claim appears on the label, or when a retailer asks for it.

Paste the recipe into LabelMyRecipe with its quantities in cups, spoons, ounces, pounds or grams. It matches each ingredient to USDA FoodData Central, totals the nutrients for the batch, divides by your servings and applies FDA rounding. You get the Nutrition Facts panel, the ingredient list and the allergen statement together, and you can preview all of it without signing up.

It is an estimate built from database averages, not a measurement of your product. How close it lands depends on the weights you enter and on each ingredient being matched to the right USDA entry. LabelMyRecipe shows every match so you can check them. It does not promise lab accuracy, and it does not replace a lab test when a buyer requires one.

No, and no label is. FDA does not approve individual food labels before products are sold, and that includes the Nutrition Facts label. What LabelMyRecipe gives you is the FDA format, FDA rounding and USDA data. What it cannot give you is an approval, because none exists.

Nine: milk, eggs, fish, Crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybeans and sesame. Sesame became the ninth on January 1, 2023. The allergen’s food source is declared either in parentheses after the ingredient, such as “whey (milk)”, or in a “Contains” statement next to the ingredient list. For tree nuts, fish and shellfish the specific type is named, such as almonds or shrimp.

Name the ingredient, then list its sub-ingredients in parentheses in descending order by weight, as in “butter (cream, salt)”. The other allowed way is to leave out the ingredient’s own name and merge its components into your main list by their weight in the finished food. Both come from 21 CFR 101.4(b)(2). LabelMyRecipe uses the parentheses form.

The finished Nutrition Facts label is paid, because reading recipes with AI and keeping the label formats correct costs real money. A Single label is $19 once per product, and Pro is $15 a month or $129 a year for unlimited products. Free gets you the watermarked preview with no sign-up, plus the ingredient list and allergen label as a PNG. The fully free route is to look up each ingredient in USDA FoodData Central and do the math and the rounding by hand, which is slow and leaves the layout to you.

Yes. Pick the Avery or OnlineLabels sheet you have, and the paid export is a PDF with each label already placed in its die-cut position, ready for a home printer. If you would rather place the label in your own artwork, export it as a PDF, PNG or SVG instead.

Paste the recipe. Print the label.

The preview is free and needs no account.

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