This free food label maker turns your recipe into a complete label: the ingredient list sorted by weight, a "Contains" line with every major allergen, the net weight in ounces and grams, your name and address, your state's cottage food statement and Nutrition Facts. Then it prints on real Avery sheets, no signup.
NET WT 12 OZ (340 g)
The checks follow FDA rules and state laws, with a source for each, but they are a guide, not a legal review. You are responsible for your label.
Type the recipe once; the food label maker writes the required text and keeps the layout legal as you design.
Most free tools give you an empty template. This one fills it in from your recipe and tells you what the label still needs.
Ingredients go heaviest first, sub-ingredients in parentheses, and small ones can close the list after "Contains 2% or less of". Copy the text or place it on the label.
Milk, egg, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, wheat, peanuts, soy and sesame, with nuts and seafood named by kind. Peanut butter is peanut, cocoa butter is not milk, and coconut stays off the "Contains" line.
Rules for all 50 states and DC: each statement in its exact current wording and minimum type size, with a link to its source and the date it was checked.
Make the Nutrition Facts in our nutrition label generator and add them here as a vector panel, or choose the small business exemption when it applies.
Every check measures the real letters: 1/16 in for the ingredient list and address, net weight by the size of the label, the product name bold.
Each one is a template you can open and change, with made up names and addresses. Every one passes the checks.
Chocolate chip cookies
Texas cottage food, sub-ingredients for the chips, "Contains: Milk, Egg, Wheat, Soy."
Sourdough bread
California: "Made in a Home Kitchen" at 12 pt, with the registration number and county.
Walnut brownies
Michigan statement at 11 pt; walnut named on the "Contains" line.
Maple pecan granola
Ohio: "This product is home produced." Coconut oil listed, not declared.
Strawberry jam
Florida statement at 10 pt, no major allergens.
Raw honey
Illinois: the full statement, the date made and the registration number.
A packaged food sold in the US needs the product name and the net quantity on the front, and an ingredient list, the major food allergens, the name and address of the maker or seller, and usually Nutrition Facts on the front or the panel to its right (21 CFR 101.2).
Cottage foods made at home add the statement your state requires. The food label maker checks each part and tells you what is still missing.
List every ingredient by its common name, heaviest first (21 CFR 101.4). For an ingredient with its own ingredients, like chocolate chips, either name it and put its ingredients in parentheses, or list those ingredients in the main list in their place.
Ingredients at 2% or less may close the list after "Contains 2% or less of". Certified colors are named one by one, such as Red 40, and preservatives say what they do. With amounts filled in, the ingredient label maker puts them in order for you.
The nine major food allergens are milk, egg, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, wheat, peanuts, soybeans and sesame. Declare them in a "Contains" line right after the ingredients, at least as large as the list, or in parentheses in the list, such as "whey (milk)".
Name tree nuts, fish and shellfish by kind: "Contains: Almond, Shrimp", never "tree nuts". Since FDA's January 2025 guidance, only 12 tree nuts count, and coconut is not one of them. A "may contain" line must be true and not repeat a declared allergen.
Most states let you sell some foods made in a home kitchen if the label carries their statement, word for word. Texas changed its wording in September 2025, Georgia in July 2025, and California asks for 12 pt type plus your permit number and county.
This food label maker has the current rules for all 50 states and DC, with the source of each. For a label laid out around your state's rules, with a checklist of what it asks for, use the cottage food label maker. Rules change, so check your state's page before you print a large batch.
Most packaged foods do. A business selling directly to consumers can skip them if those sales are not more than $500,000 a year, or its food sales to consumers not more than $50,000 (21 CFR 101.9(j)(1)). A low volume product, from a firm with fewer than 100 full-time employees selling fewer than 100,000 units of it a year, can too, usually after a notice to FDA (101.9(j)(18)). Either way the label must make no nutrient claims such as "low fat" or "sugar free".
If you need them, make them in the nutrition label generator and add them to this label in one click.
Required information needs letters at least 1/16 in high, measured on the lowercase o (21 CFR 101.2). The net weight goes in the bottom 30% of the front, bold, at a height set by the size of the front panel.
Our checks measure the letters in the actual font, so 7 pt text that looks fine on screen is flagged before it reaches the printer.
Anyone selling food they make, from a farmers market table to a first store shelf.
Cookies, bread and brownies with the cottage food statement your state asks for.
Jar labels with the net weight in ounces and grams, printed on Avery sheets.
Ingredient lists and allergen lines that pass a store buyer's review, with Nutrition Facts.
Granola, spice blends and treats labeled right for markets, fairs and gift boxes.
More questions? The Checks tab explains every warning and links the rule behind it.
Open the food label makerYes. Every template, check and download is free, with no signup and no watermark, and you can sell the products you label.
It reads every ingredient and sub-ingredient name and marks the nine major allergens, with tree nuts and seafood named by kind. Anything that depends on the source, like lecithin, is shown for you to decide, and natural flavors come with a reminder to ask your supplier.
Yes. Enter the ingredients and copy the finished list and "Contains" line, or place just those on a small label for the back of your package.
All 50 states and the District of Columbia, read from the law or the state's own page in October 2026. Most have a statement, copied word for word; Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Pennsylvania have none. The cottage food label maker builds the whole label around your state.
Yes. Make them in the free nutrition label generator, then add them here; they stay vector and keep FDA type sizes.
Pick an Avery sheet, print the test page on plain paper at 100% or Actual size, check it against a label sheet, then print the labels.
No tool can promise that. The food label maker follows FDA rules and state laws and cites each one, but you are responsible for your label; ask your state's food safety office if you are unsure.
Not yet. US labels must be in English, and the label fonts cover Latin letters only; this page is in Chinese, the label stays in English.
Pick your state and get a cottage food label with its exact statement, the items it asks for and the right type size, printed on Avery sheets.
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