How to Create or Customize a Nutrition Label on Food Label Maker
Food Label Maker provides flexible options for creating and customizing nutrition labels, whether you have a full recipe, need to add specific ingredients, or only have the nutritional facts for a product. Follow the steps below to create your label in different scenarios.
Additionally, Food Label Maker supports creating customized labels for product variations, such as those with different flavors or sizes, ensuring compliance with nutritional labeling standards.
Ensure you accurately complete the Recipe Setup screen to provide key details like servings, portion size, and type of food product before building your label.
For product variations, such as different flavors or sizes, ensure the Recipe Setup reflects the unique details of each version to maintain accurate nutritional labels.
Note for International Users: In the Spanish interface, the Recipe Builder is called 'Elaborador de recetas', ensuring multilingual support.
Creating a Nutrition Label with a Recipe
Login to Food Label Maker
Setup your recipe by inputting number of servings, serving size and whether it is a liquid or a solid
Add your recipe ingredients and corresponding quantities in the recipe builder page
Click on Customize Label to choose your market and label format.
For more info you can view this quick tutorial here
Begin by navigating to the 'Recipes' section within the platform.
Click on 'Add new recipe' to start the recipe creation process.
The Recipe Setup screen will guide you through providing foundational details such as number of servings, serving size, and food type.
Adding a Single Ingredient to Your Label
Navigate to the Recipe Builder page within the Food Label Maker platform.
Search for the ingredient you want to add (e.g., vanilla extract).
Select the ingredient and specify the amount used for your recipe. - The Food Label Maker database automatically displays the ingredient’s nutritional information (e.g., calories, macronutrients) on your label.
If the ingredient cannot be found or its nutritional information is incorrect: - You can create a custom ingredient by entering its nutrition facts manually into the system or using our AI ingredient Parsing. Simply upload a nutrition facts label or ingredient spec sheet and the nutritional info will automatically populate the data into the platform.
For more info you can check the tutorial here
Creating a Nutrition Label Without a Recipe
If you already know the nutrition facts for your product and don’t need to enter the full recipe, you can create your label directly by inputting the values:
Log in to Food Label Maker.
Click Add New Ingredient.
Enter the nutrition facts for your product.
Save it as a custom ingredient.
Insert this custom ingredient into a recipe to generate your label.
For more information, you can watch the tutorial here
Troubleshooting Common Issues
Ingredient Not Found: If specific ingredients are missing from the database, ensure you’ve searched with alternative spellings or regional terms. If unavailable, you can create custom ingredients
Errors in Nutritional Calculations: Double-check entered values for typing errors and ensure measurement units are correctly added. Make sure your serving size aligns with the RACC or Reference Size for your maket
Managing Variations: For multiple product variations, ensure each flavor or size has individually tailored labels by duplicating and modifying recipes in the platform.
By following these steps, you can create accurate and compliant nutrition labels for a wide variety of products, whether you have the ingredient list or just the nutritional data.
Creating Labels for Product Variations
Product variations, such as different flavors or sizes, require unique labels to address differences in ingredients or serving sizes. Accurately creating labels for variations ensures compliance and provides clarity for consumers.
Handling Different Flavors
Each flavor of a product may have different ingredients, requiring a specific label.
For example, a chocolate flavor may have more sugar than a vanilla version, affecting nutritional information.
Use Food Label Maker to create separate labels for each flavor by customizing recipes for specific ingredients.
Managing Size-Based Label Variations
Packaging sizes can influence serving sizes and total servings, impacting the label.
Duplicate your recipe in Food Label Maker and adjust parameters (e.g., portion size or servings) to reflect size variations.
Generate distinct labels for single-serving and multi-serving packages to maintain accuracy.