How Ingredient Lists Are Automatically Ordered
Food Label Maker automatically generates your ingredient list based on regulatory requirements.
Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, meaning the ingredient used in the largest quantity appears first, followed by the next largest.
The platform calculates the total quantity of each ingredient in your recipe and automatically orders them correctly on your label.
Use Case 1: Same Ingredient Used Multiple Times
If the same ingredient appears more than once in a recipe, Food Label Maker will automatically combine the quantities before generating the ingredient list.
Example
If your recipe contains:
Milk – 100 g
Milk – 50 g
The system will combine them:
Milk – 150 g
Milk will then appear in the ingredient list according to its total quantity and placed correctly in descending order.
Use Case 2: Ingredients Inside Sub-Recipes
If your recipe contains sub-recipes, the ingredients inside those sub-recipes are listed separately by default.
Example
Chocolate Frosting (sugar, milk, butter)
Chocolate Sponge Cake (sugar, cocoa, oil)
Since sugar appears in both sub-recipes, it will appear separately inside each sub-recipe ingredient list.
How to Combine Sub-Recipe Ingredients
If you want to combine ingredients across the main recipe and sub-recipes, you can enable the Aggregate Sub-Recipe Ingredients option.
Steps
Click Edit Ingredient / Allergen List
Scroll to the bottom
Toggle Aggregate Sub-Recipe Ingredients
This will automatically merge identical ingredients across the recipe and sub-recipes.
Example
If both the main recipe and a sub-recipe contain sugar, the system will combine them and display sugar as a single ingredient.
⚠️ Important
Enabling this option will reset the ingredient and allergen statements, as well as any unsaved customizations.