Home bakers
Sell baked goods from home
Licenses, allowed foods, where you can sell, sales limits, the label, and pricing. Links to your state.
Free. No account.
Free nutrition label maker for small food makers
Type the amounts per serving. Get a Nutrition Facts panel in the FDA format, rounded the way FDA requires, with % Daily Values. Print it on a label sheet. Then check what your state puts on a cottage food label.
- 2020 FDA layout
- FDA rounding built in
- Label rules for 33 states
Nutrition Facts
6 servings per container
Serving size 2 cookies (32g)
Calories150
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 7g9%
Saturated Fat 4g20%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 15mg5%
Sodium 95mg4%
Total Carbohydrate 20g7%
Dietary Fiber 1g4%
Total Sugars 11g
Includes 10g Added Sugars20%
Protein 2g
Vitamin D 0mcg0%
Calcium 10mg1%
Iron 0.9mg5%
Potassium 45mg1%
* The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
Sell food from home: licenses, labels, and rules
One page per kind of food seller: home bakers, cottage food sellers, small brands, and supplement makers.
Home food sellers
Cottage food license by state
Which states need a license, permit, or registration, what it costs, and the sales limit.
Small food brands
Food label requirements
The five things every packaged food label must show, the nutrition panel and its exemptions, and claims.
Supplement makers
Supplement label requirements
The Supplement Facts panel, proprietary blends, the dagger, claims and the required disclaimer.
Free food label tools and calculators
Every tool is free. You do not need an account.
Type the amounts per serving. Print a Nutrition Facts panel in the FDA layout.
List up to eight ingredients. Print a Supplement Facts panel.
Type your ingredients with weights. Get the ingredient list in the right order, the allergen line, and a printable cottage food label.
Convert grams, cups, tablespoons, and ounces for 45 baking ingredients.
Paste a recipe. Change the servings. Get every amount scaled, with kitchen fractions.
Enter what each ingredient costs and how much you use. Get cost per batch, cost per unit, and a selling price.
Ingredients, decorating time, packaging, and markup. Get a price for the whole cake and per slice.
Batch weight and servings in. Grams per serving and per-serving calories, fat, carbs, sodium, and protein out.
Pick the date made and the shelf life. Get the best-by date, with typical shelf lives for home-made foods.
Cottage food laws by state
Each page lists what the label must show, the exact disclaimer text, and where you can sell.
No set disclaimer text. No nutrition panel required.
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Disclaimer text required. No nutrition panel required.
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No set disclaimer text. No nutrition panel required.
Disclaimer text required. No nutrition panel required.
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Disclaimer text required. No nutrition panel required.
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Disclaimer text required. No nutrition panel required.
Disclaimer text required. No nutrition panel required.
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Disclaimer text required. No nutrition panel required.
Food labeling guides
How to turn a batch into grams per serving, how FDA reference amounts set the serving size for packaged food, and how to write the serving size line on the label.
Three ways to get the Nutrition Facts numbers for a food product, what each costs and takes, when you can skip the panel, and how to print it once you have the values.
The nine major allergens, the two ways to declare them, and the exact form of the "Contains" line.