Supplement Facts Label Maker

A Supplement Facts panel is the nutrition information panel of a dietary supplement. It opens with the words Supplement Facts in bold, larger than every other line and as wide as the panel, inside the hairline box that holds the whole panel (21 CFR 101.36(e)(1) and (e)(2)). Under the title, Serving Size sits at the left, and Servings Per Container follows it unless the net quantity statement gives it (101.36(b)(1)(ii)). The amount heading and the % Daily Value heading sit on their own line under the heavy bar, with a light bar beneath them (101.36(e)(7)), and the dietary ingredients follow.

The panel has two parts. The (b)(2) dietary ingredients come first: calories, the macronutrients, then the vitamins and minerals, each with its amount and, where a Daily Value exists, its % Daily Value. A heavy bar closes that list. The other dietary ingredients come below it, with a symbol in the % Daily Value column and a footnote that explains the symbol (101.36(b)(3)). A proprietary blend keeps its ingredients together under its own name and total weight (101.36(c)). Other ingredients, the gelatin, water, cellulose and the like, print below the panel (101.36(d)), as in FDA’s examples. The regulation pages are on eCFR at 21 CFR 101.36, and FDA’s high-resolution examples show the nine layouts this supplement facts label maker starts from.

The order of the (b)(2) dietary ingredients is not the order you type them in. 21 CFR 101.36(b)(2)(i)(B) follows the food label order of 101.9(c), so calories come first, then the fats, cholesterol, carbohydrate, fiber, sugars and protein, then the vitamins and minerals. Within the vitamins and minerals the regulation has its own list, with calcium and iron after choline and sodium and potassium after chloride. This supplement facts label maker sorts the rows into that order whatever order they were entered in, so a formula sheet can be typed as it is written.

The other dietary ingredients keep the order you give them. They sit below the heavy bar that closes the (b)(2) list, with the symbol of (b)(2)(iii)(F) or (b)(3)(iv) in their % Daily Value cells. Added sugars is the one ingredient that moves inside another line: it is listed under total sugars, so the panel asks for total sugars when added sugars is on it.

Each % Daily Value is the amount per serving divided by the Daily Value: the RDI in 21 CFR 101.9(c)(8)(iv) or the DRV in 101.9(c)(9), taken to the nearest whole percent (101.36(b)(2)(iii)(C)). An amount under one percent prints as <1%, as FDA’s children’s example prints for 1 g of carbohydrate. Calories and calories from saturated fat leave the % Daily Value cell blank (101.36(b)(2)(iii)(G)). Fats, cholesterol, sodium, potassium, carbohydrate and fiber may take their percent from the amount as printed, as 101.36(b)(2)(iii)(B) allows, and the supplement facts label generator does the same so the panel never shows a percent that contradicts its own amount.

An ingredient with no Daily Value takes the symbol, and the footnote under the panel explains it: Daily Value not established. A proprietary blend takes the symbol too, without amounts of its own. The calorie statements are added only when the panel has a calorie nutrient to explain them, and the number of the diet in each statement follows the age group of the column it belongs to. Vitamins, minerals and other ingredients keep the decimals you type, while calories and macronutrients round to FDA’s increments (101.36(b)(2)(ii)(A)). Vitamin D may show IU after the mcg amount (101.36(b)(2)(ii)(B)), and folate shows its folic acid in parentheses when folic acid is added (101.9(c)(8)(vii)).

A serving column is the usual panel, but it is not the only one. The per day column multiplies each amount by the number of servings a day and prints that number in its heading, as 101.36(e)(9)(ii) asks. Two products give an AM and a PM packet their own amount and % Daily Value columns. Two % Daily Value columns set the children 1 through 3 panel beside the adult one, and each column heading names its audience, as 101.36(b)(2)(iii)(E) requires; the supplement facts generator adds the audience words to the headings for you.

The standard display is one list. The split display continues the list in two halves side by side when a long panel has to fit a wide label (101.36(e)(12)). The linear display sets the panel as one paragraph at 8 pt; the small package switch drops it to 4.5 pt, which 101.36(i)(2)(i) allows under 12 square inches. The standard and split displays share the hairlines and bars: the box is a hairline, a hairline separates dietary ingredients, a light bar sits under the headings and heavy bars close the servings and each group (101.36(e)(1) to (e)(7)). The linear display draws only the box.

A salt or an extract takes its source in parentheses after the ingredient name: Vitamin C (as ascorbic acid), Calcium (from oyster shell). A plant part follows the name instead, as Oriental Ginseng, powdered (root). 21 CFR 101.36(d) sets the parentheses, and the checks ask for as or from at the start of the words inside them. The other ingredients, the fillers and capsule materials, print below the panel (101.36(d)), as in FDA’s examples. Type that statement once and it travels with the design.

The panel downloads as a vector PDF, SVG or EPS with the text outlined, or a 300 or 600 dpi PNG at the print size. The PDF and EPS print black as 100% K; the SVG is RGB. A printer needs no fonts. The same design can go to the food label maker with Put on a label, where the identity, net quantity and business address sit around the panel on the finished label.